Johannes Bernardus van Bree

Johannes Bernardus van Bree (29 January 1801 – 14 February 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor.

Biography Van Bree was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.

From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam.

As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).

Incomplete list of works

Operas Sappho ) Choral and Vocal Works Mass for Soloists, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra in A flat (ca. 1830) Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Organ in F Three Masses "tribus vocibus humanis, comitante organo" for Three-Part Male Chorus and Organ (1837) Fantasy in form of a symphony (1845) Allegro for Four String Quartets in D minor (about 1845)