Vander Straeten, Edmond

VANDER STRAETEN, Edmond, distinguished Belgian musician, and writer on music, and author of ‘La Musique aux Pays-Bas,’ a work still in progress and destined to be a monument of erudition and research—was born at Oudenarde in Flanders, Dec. 3, 1826. He was educated for the law, first at Alost, and afterwards in the University of Ghent. On his return to Oudenarde, he continued the cultivation of his taste for music, in combination with numismatics and archæology, the last-named pursuit...