Bust of Edmond de Coussemaker in Belle
Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (Belle, April 19, 1805 - Lille, January 10, 1876) was musicologist, ethnologist and lawyer in French-Flanders. Together with Michiel de Swaen and Maria Petyt, The Coussemaker is one of the most important representatives of Dutch-speaking culture in France.
The Coussemaker studied rights in Paris, at the same time, following his ambition to become a composer of a music studio, including composition with Antonín Rejcha. In Dowaai he got his first appointment as a lawyer. He would not pursue a musical career but a lawyer career. He eventually became a judge in Sint-Winoksbergen, Hazebroek, Kamerijk, Duinkerke and Lille.
In 1853, De Coussemaker pointed out to the Flemish de Flamand Committee that the disappearance of the spoken Dutch (Flemish) had to be halted. Together with the priest politician Jules Auguste Lemire, he tried to preserve the teaching in Dutch at the Catholic school of, among others, Belle, but by the secularism enforced by law, the church government lost its influence. Dutch-speaking education disappeared. He gained fame with the recording of Dutch-language folk songs from French-Flanders and released it in his Chants popularities of Flamands de France in 1856.
As musicologist Edmond de Coussemaker was active in the field of medieval music. With his musical theoretical work, Hucbald moine de St. Armand et ses traités de musique (1839-1841), he studied the music of the 9th century monk Hucbald, an important impulse to the revival of ancient church music. Although his work is out of date on some music historical issues, it still offers a lot of material of lasting value to contemporary musicology. family
He was the son of Charles de Coussemaker and Marie Joets de Métershof. He married Marie-Josephine Mignard de la Mouiliere on September 14, 1836. They had 4 children, his grandchildren all married with Belgian noblemen. Granddaughter Isabelle the Master married with Count Gustave della Faille, the grandfather of Countess Alix de Lannoy. Working (incomplete list)
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