Lekeu was a Belgian composer. He settled in Poitiers in 1879, studying violin, piano and cello and composing prolifically from the age of 15. His early works show great thematic and rhythmic inventiveness. He moved to Paris in June 1888, and made a pilgrimage to Bayreuth the following year. He studied counterpoint and fugue with Franck, and after Franck's death, fugue and orchestration with d'Indy. He died of typhoid fever at the age of 24. Lekeu was greatly affected by the emotional temperature of the Franck circle, and the two great influences on his work, as on others of the circle, were late Beethoven and Wagner. The Piano Sonata, the Piano Quartet and the Violin Sonata are among those works suffused with a kind of feverish, almost preternatural intensity, and his weaknesses are the outcome of the then currently fashionable necessity to think, as well as to feel, in the grand manner. However, signs of an individual intelligence in the making are detectable on almost every page; for instance, in the 'Nocturne' (no.3 of the Trois poemes for voice and piano to Lekeu's own words) the late Romantic afflatus gives place to early glimmerings of impressionism, and in the orchestral Fantaisie sur deux airs populaires angevins folksong proved to be (as with d'Indy) a revitalizing and purifying influence." I have a CD with music by Lekeu. It's on the Harmonia Mundi label (number HMA1901455) and it's truly nice music. It contains works for soprano and piano, for ensemble with solo cello and for orchestra. I can only recommend it. Paolo