Eduard de Lannoy

Baron Henri Eduard Joseph de Lannoy (3 December 1787 – 28 March 1853), was a Flemish composer, teacher, conductor, and writer on music who spent most of his life in Austria.

Eduard de Lannoy was born in Brussels, then in the Duchy of Brabant, a region of the Austrian Netherlands, part of the Holy Roman Empire.

[n 1] His father's career began in 1756 in the Finance department of the Austro-Belgian government; after the suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 he was chief administrator for the disbursement of its estates.

He returned to Brussels and enrolled at the École centrale de Bruxelles [fr] (previously the Old University of Leuven), where he studied linguistics, philosophy and jurisprudence, and especially mathematics and music.

[12] Lannoy gave composition lessons to Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, who went on to write 300 songs under the pseudonym 'J.

In conversation and in writing, he disseminated the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Vienna, especially the musical articles in the Aesthetic Lexicon by Ignaz Jeitteles which stem from his quill ("stammen aus Lannoy's Feder").

[18] He was closest to fellow clarinettist Count Ferdinando Troyer, the dedicatee of Franz Schubert's Octet in F major, D.

[41] Elemental power dwells in the mountain deeps And struggles unavenged towards the light; It wakes the tempests, enthralled with sleep, A fiery flood breaks from the crater's height.

But where once flowed the deadly glowing streams, Soon grows the wild rose on stratums new And where th' indignant winds cried wailing The precious gem with Phoebus' brilliance gleams.

You are the rock, power dwells in your breast, You inward reach to him who fines and pays, In flight you strike a chord in every soul:

In you the world resounds with joy, with pain; You sing; each tone penetrates our hearts; All mankind hearkens to you, every age.

They adopted a son, Rudolf Oskar Freiherr von Gödel-Lannoy (1814–1883):[n 4] In 1855 he was Consul-General of Syria & Palestine, in Beirut:[48] Consul-General in Jassy, Moldavia, (now Iași, Romania), from October 1855 to 1862:[49][50] Präsident der Central-Seebehörde Triest (Central Maritime Agency, Trieste) in 1868 and Ritter der L.

[53] "At the same time plans for a direct connection through the Alps were developed, promoted by Archduke John of Austria – [who knew Johann Vesque de Puttlingen) to open up the Styrian lands beyond Semmering Pass."