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Browse piano sheets by L. Streabbog on Zen Virtual Piano. L. Streabbog was the publishing name of Jean Louis Gobbaerts, a Belgian pianist and composer of light piano music. Born at Antwerp, he was a pupil of the Brussels Conservatory and had a reputation in his time as a successful pianist. He published about twelve hundred pieces of piano music, much of it popular. Signing most of a body of work with a surname in reverse, as Gobbaerts did with Streabbog, makes the byline itself a small puzzle for anyone who finds the music. Streabbog, the name under which the greater part of his work appeared, is Gobbaerts spelled backwards; some pieces came out instead under the names Ludovic and Levi. He also wrote a method for piano, and his compositions include Valse des Masques, a Nocturne, an Idylle, a Serenade, a Galop di bravura, twelve easy studies, and the dances Les Papillons, op. 108. A record at purl.pt for Fleurs de Mai, No. 1, La violette, Op. 99, credits L. Streabbog, while the enc.piano.or.jp music page gives La Violette F-Dur Op.99 No.1 under Gobbaerts, Jean-Louis. Seeing one piece under Streabbog on one record and Gobbaerts on another shows how the two names run side by side. Gobbaerts died at the age of 50 in Saint-Gilles, near Brussels. A pen name that reverses the real one leaves a trail short enough to follow, from Streabbog back to Gobbaerts in a single step.
Browse piano sheets by L. Streabbog on Zen Virtual Piano.
L. Streabbog was the publishing name of Jean Louis Gobbaerts, a Belgian pianist and composer of light piano music. Born at Antwerp, he was a pupil of the Brussels Conservatory and had a reputation in his time as a successful pianist. He published about twelve hundred pieces of piano music, much of it popular. Signing most of a body of work with a surname in reverse, as Gobbaerts did with Streabbog, makes the byline itself a small puzzle for anyone who finds the music.
Streabbog, the name under which the greater part of his work appeared, is Gobbaerts spelled backwards; some pieces came out instead under the names Ludovic and Levi. He also wrote a method for piano, and his compositions include Valse des Masques, a Nocturne, an Idylle, a Serenade, a Galop di bravura, twelve easy studies, and the dances Les Papillons, op. 108. A record at purl.pt for Fleurs de Mai, No. 1, La violette, Op. 99, credits L. Streabbog, while the enc.piano.or.jp music page gives La Violette F-Dur Op.99 No.1 under Gobbaerts, Jean-Louis. Seeing one piece under Streabbog on one record and Gobbaerts on another shows how the two names run side by side. Gobbaerts died at the age of 50 in Saint-Gilles, near Brussels. A pen name that reverses the real one leaves a trail short enough to follow, from Streabbog back to Gobbaerts in a single step.
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L. Streabbog was the publishing name of Jean Louis Gobbaerts, a Belgian pianist and composer of light piano music.
Streabbog is Gobbaerts spelled backwards; the greater part of his music was published under that name, with some under the names Ludovic and Levi.
About twelve hundred pieces of piano music, much of it popular, along with a method for piano.
It is the first piece of Fleurs de Mai, credited to L. Streabbog in the purl.pt record and given as La Violette F-Dur Op.99 No.1 under Gobbaerts on the enc.piano.or.jp page.