About Georges-Jacques Aelsters
Lived 1770 – 1849 (aged 78–79). Georges-Jacques Aelsters was a composer.
Georges-Jacques Aelsters (1770 – 11 April 1849) was a carillonneur and composer from Ghent.
He was born into a musical family at Ghent. He was carillonneur of that town from 1788 to 1839. He was also for fifty years director of the music at the , and composer of much church music still performed well after his death in Flanders, especially a Miserere.
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Who was Georges-Jacques Aelsters?
Belgian carillonneur (1770–1849)
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Georges-Jacques Aelsters was born in 1770.
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Georges-Jacques Aelsters died in 1849.
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Georges-Jacques Aelsters was a composer.
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