* 1930 in Antwerp; received private piano and composition lessons early on, later studied with Marcel Quinet in Brussels, Max Deutsch in Paris and Hans Swarowsky in Vienna; winner of the Prix de Rome (1959); professor of musical analysis and composition at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels from 1970 to 1990; raised to the personal nobility (Baroness) by King Baudouin of Belgium in 1993.
Jacqueline Fontyn
Composer
