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Jos van Immerseel

Jos van Immerseel was born in Antwerp and studied piano with Eugène Traey, organ with Flor Peeters, harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert, singing with Lucie Frateur, and orchestra conducting with Daniel Sternefeld. His broad interests led him to autodidactic study of organology, i.e. the study of the structure and function of instruments, more specifically of historical fortepianos, and of rhetoric. As a conductor Jos van Immerseel led in 1977 the performances of L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi that in the meantime have become legendary. Subsequently he became a guest conductor of the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, the Dutch Chamber Choir, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Wiener Akademie, and Musica Florea Prague.  Ever since he has been shifting the boundaries of his research and orchestral practice to classical, romantic, and impressionist music. He got steeped in historical practices of improvisation and made a study in depth of the use of rhetoric in music. All these insights he pursued in depth as conductor of Anima Eterna, the orchestra he founded in 1987, never to be overestimated since in the Golden Book of authentic performance practice.

Selective discography

	Piano works of the young Beethoven (2020) classicism Jos van Immerseel, Ludwig Van Beethoven		Beethoven - Symphonies & Ouvertures (2018) classical Anima Eterna Brugge, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Jos van Immerseel
	Dvorák Grieg Brahms - Music for piano four hands (2017) romanticism Jos van Immerseel, Antonín Dvořák, Claire Chevallier, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg		L'ange & le diable (2016) Baroque Jos van Immerseel, Pietro Locatelli, Chouchane Siranossian, Jean-Marie Leclair (l'ainé), Antoine Forqueray, Giuseppe Tartini
	Schubertiade (2015) romanticism Anima Eterna Brugge, Franz Schubert, Jos van Immerseel		The Accent Recordings 1979-1986 (2015) Baroque Jos van Immerseel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Muzio Clementi, Gioachino Rossini
	Dvořák Antonín - Sinfonietta p. 60; Symfonie nr 9 in e "From the New World" (2015) romanticism Anima Eterna Brugge, Antonín Dvořák, Jos van Immerseel		La Clarinette Française (2015) classical Jos van Immerseel, Françis Poulenc, Lisa Shklyaver, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, André Bloch, Gabriel Pierné, Darius Milhaud (...)
	Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (2014) 20th century Anima Eterna Brugge, Carl Orff, Jos van Immerseel, Collegium Vocale Gent, Yeree Suh, Yves Saelens, Thomas E. Bauer		Maurice Ravel - Ma mère l'oye (2014) 20th century Anima Eterna Brugge, Maurice Ravel, Jos van Immerseel, Modest Moessorgski

Author of

	Matière et Musique - The cluny encounter (2000) classicisme, barok, oude muziek Claire Chevallier, Jos van Immerseel		De pianoforte, de hemel ingeprezen en ter helle gejaagd. Een topje zonder ijsberg?

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Piano works of the young Beethoven (2020) classicism Jos van Immerseel, Ludwig Van Beethoven		Dvorák Grieg Brahms - Music for piano four hands (2017) romanticism Jos van Immerseel, Antonín Dvořák, Claire Chevallier, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg
	L'ange & le diable (2016) Baroque Jos van Immerseel, Pietro Locatelli, Chouchane Siranossian, Jean-Marie Leclair (l'ainé), Antoine Forqueray, Giuseppe Tartini		La Clarinette Française (2015) classical Jos van Immerseel, Françis Poulenc, Lisa Shklyaver, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, André Bloch, Gabriel Pierné, Darius Milhaud (...)
	A guide to musical instruments (vol II) 1800-1950 (2013) Baroque, romanticism, 20th century Diverse uitvoerders, Paul Dombrecht, Diverse componisten, Octophoros, Jos van Immerseel, Ricercar Consort, Anima Eterna Brugge		Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus. Les grandes sonates viennoises (2002) classicism Jos van Immerseel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Midori Seiler
	Rossini Gioacchino - Petite Messe solennelle (1992) romanticism Nederlands Kamerkoor, Jos van Immerseel, Gioachino Rossini		Musica Nova zingt Brahms (1982) romanticism Musica Nova, Johannes Brahms, Roger Leens
	Fiocco Joseph-Hector - Pièces de Clavecin (1976) Baroque Jos van Immerseel, Joseph-Hector Fiocco

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