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Impede that swift flight
Now already gone above
Beside God's joyful host.

Now Holy pure, laugh and play
Around the highest throne;
And spread out your slender wings -
Sustain us through grief and pain.
O flower of thirteen days,
Your sanctity forbids our complaint.

Marcel Poot
1901-1988

The Belgian composer Marcel Poot was born in Vilvoorde, Brussels on May
7, 1901. His father, Jan Poot, was head of the Flemish Theater in Brussels.
Starting in 1939, Marcel held various positions at the Royal Conservatory
in Brussels, and headed it from 1949 until 1966. He was chairman of the
music copyright organization SABAM, and is one of the few Belgian
composers to achieve fame outside of his country. He promoted music
periodicals, founded various music organizations, and was State-Inspector
of Music-Education. He left behind an extensive selection of compositions
for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, horn, opera, ballet,
and radio plays. He died in 1988.

Marcel Poot’s lively and spirited style of composition expresses a youthful
mischievousness and lust for life, expressed in lively rhythms and often
short melodic themes. He achieved instant fame in 1934 with a gay
overture dedicated to his famed instructor, Paul Dukas. Poot is considered
a neo-classicist, for his style uses classical structures but with modern
rhythms and contrasting thematic elements. Poot’s symphonic music is
mostly abstract, without extra-musical content or meaning, as it expresses
his personal musical imagination.

Marcel Poot wrote seven symphonies at different periods of his career.
Currently available recordings include:
Flemish Romantic Music
POOT: Symphonic No. 6 / Pygmalion ( Suite )
POOT: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 and 7

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