tr, 1942-2015 BE
Musician / Composer / Conductor
A.k.a. André Waignein Rita Defoort Rob Ares
André Waignein (28 January 1942 – 22 November 2015) was a Belgian composer, conductor, trumpeter, and musicologist. He is well known for his symphonies with over six hundred compositions at the time of his death. Waignein's symphonies were known to be lively and upbeat, and they reflected his character. He was a professor at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and a director at the Conservatoire de TournaiHe wrote under the pseudonyms of Rita Defoort (the name of his wife), Rob Ares, Luc Gistel, Ron Sebregts, Roland Kernen, and Larry Foster.