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Published works  Composers  Georges Antoine  Paul Barras  Tiziano Bedetti  Michel Béro  Jean-Louis Cadée  Leonello Capodaglio  Dominique Charle  Thierry Chleide  Marcel Cominotto  Roger Cornelis  Mathieu Debaar  Firmin Decerf  Paul Detiffe  Berthe di Vito-Delvaux  Georges Dubois  Albert Dupuis  Michel Fourgon  Pierre Froidebise  Maurice Guillaume  André Jadot  Mathieu Jodin  André Klenes  Lucien Lambotte  Louis Lavoye  Michel Leclerc  Guillaume Lekeu  Jean-Luc Lepage  Alain Levecq  Pierre Liémans  Albert Lomba  Anne Martin  Raymond Micha  Marian Mitea  Onofrio Palumbo  Désiré Pâque  Jean-Dominique Pasquet  Henri Pousseur  Jean Rogister  Paul Rouault  Paul Sana  Edouard Senny  Claude Siquiet  Philippe Verkaeren  Patrick Wilwerth		Mathieu JODIN (Dison 1878 - Verviers 1960 )
		Mathieu Jodin was born in Dison on February 20,1878 and he died in Verviers on January 16,1960. At a very young age already, Mathieu Jodin showed his natural aptitude for music, poetry and natural sciences. in 1886, he undertook his music studies at the School for Music in Verviers where he worked the violin and later the viola, upon the advice of Director Louis Kefer. His studies were rewarded by a first prize of viola and a second prize of bassoon in 1895. In 1898, he obtained a 1st Prize in harmony and he also translated the Counterpoint Treaty of Jadassohn, published by Breitkopf and Härtel, into French. Mathieu Jodin was a graduate of the Higher School for Textiles in Verviers and his career as an engineer at the Peltzer company slowed down his musical activities very little only. He also composed numerous works in a great variety of forms, including an important production of religious music. Mathieu Jodin had to discontinue his activities as an instrumental performer during the period between the two World Wars because of an attack of rheumatism, but up to the very end, he retained the use of his considerable mental faculties, together with great enthusiasm and a desire to learn, supported by a firm and humanistic way of thinking. In his final years, he became tempted by dodecaphonic music.     Philippe Bayard Translated by Luc Van Loock