Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Napoleon Distelmans


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. If an editor would like to work on this article in Draft space, let me know. Liz Read! Talk! 23:18, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Napoleon Distelmans

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This article was created in 2006 and has never had references. A discussion on the WikiProject Classical music page concluded that much of the information is dubious. Project members also concluded that this individual seems to have been a real violist, but that there is no where near enough substantial information to suggest notability (see Hucbald's analysis on the project page).  Aza24  (talk)   21:42, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Bands and musicians,  and Music.   Aza24  (talk)   21:42, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete the confirmation from the family member aside in the discussion mentioned above on the project page, I find nothing about we can use about this fellow. Confirmation he was a music teacher?, that's about it. Oaktree b (talk) 21:46, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Neutral – one of the references I found in a Belgian academic site calls him "legendary", which is impressive, but otherwise I can't find anything to suggest that he's notable so far as the English Wikipedia is concerned.  Tim riley  talk   21:54, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * My great-uncle on my mother"s side was a well-known viola-player, not a violin-player, he formed a string quartet with my grandfather and two other brothers playing string instruments before WW2.
 * Because he won the Prix de Rome alto he obtained a scholarship to study in London with one of the best viola players of that era after which he was appointed at a very young age to become one of the first professors at the Royal Antwerp Conservatory. The first higher education establishment in Flanders to employ Dutch as the language of instruction.
 * There used to be a newspaper clipping in the familly mentioning the name of his London teacher but this was lost so I can't be more informative about that for the time being.
 * He was noted because several Flemish composers graduated in his class, amonst whom Jef Maes, considered to be one of the most important post-war Flemish composers.
 * For this reason, his class was referred to as the 'composers class'
 * All this being well-documented by the Antwerp Conservatory.
 * Apart from his teaching at the Antwerp Conservatory, he was the main viola-player at the Orchestra of the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, which existed from the second half of the 19th century to the 1960s and was well-regarded for its performances of modern, contemporary music hence the attendance of several well-known composers.
 * The archives of this orchestra, no longer in possesion of the Antwerp Zoological Society are now kept in the Antwerp city archives and can be consulted.
 * His popularity between the wars with a wider audience in Antwerp can be attributed to the matinee concerts he gave in the open air music stand of the Antwerp Zoo. Napoleon Distelmans (talk) 02:22, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Belgium-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 22:15, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Nothing WP:NOTABLE here.--Smerus (talk) 07:59, 15 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.