Johannes Bernardus van Bree

Johannes Bernardus van Bree (Amsterdam, January 29 1801 – Amsterdam February 14 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.cite book|title=Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
pages=114|edition=3rd ed.|date=1919|oclc=223262657|last=Baker|first=Theodore|coauthors=Remy, Theodore
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From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam. [cite book|last=Baltzell|first=Winton James|oclc=6614100|date=1918|publisher=Oliver Diston Co.; C.H. Ditson|location=Boston; New York
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title=Baltzell's dictionary of musicians : containing concise biographical sketches of musicians of the past and present, with the pronunciation of foreign names]

As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of the Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).

Incomplete list of works:

*Operas
**Sappho
**Nimm dich in Acht
**Le Bandit (overture recorded on NM Classicscite web|title=Library of Congress Permalink for Le Bandit Overture Recording|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/2001335098|accessdate=2008-05-18] )
*Choral and Vocal Works
**Mass for Soloists, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra in A flat (ca. 1830)cite web|url=http://www.kb.nl|title=Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands|accessdate=2008-05-18]
**Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Organ in Fcite web|url=http://www.kb.nl|title=Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands|accessdate=2008-06-21]
**Three Masses "tribus vocibus humanis, comitante organo" for Three-Part Male Chorus and Organ (1837)
**Cantata "St. Cecilia's Day" (in D)
**Psalm 84 (1840s?)
*Orchestral and Chamber works
**Overture in B minor
**Overture in E flat major (1839)
**Scene, for Horn and Orchestra (1841)
**Variations for violin and piano (1837)
**Allegro for Four String Quartets in D minor (about 1845)
**Scherzi, for the piano (about 1855?)
**String Quartets - no. 1 in A (about 1834), no. 2 in E flat (about 1840, dedicated to Bernard Molique), no. 3 in D minor (1850s?)

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