Sheet music by Guillaume Lekeu
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Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer of classical music.
Lekeu's personal style was present in his earliest compositions. In 1887, he said "Bien plus, ce sera bizarre, détraqué, horrible, tout ce qu'on voudra; mais, du moins, ce sera original"[4] ("Even more, it will be weird, mad, horrible, anything you like, but at least it will be original").
Lekeu's string quartets were inspired by Beethoven, and exposure to Wagner's operas at Bayreuth influenced his approaches to melody. He described this as "des mélodies de telle longeur qu'un seul exposé suffisait à parfaire ... un morceau de musique"[4] ("melodies of such length that a single presentation was sufficient to complete ... a piece of music").
His primary influence was Franck. Many of his works are characterized by a certain melancholy: in his own words, "la joie [est] mille fois plus difficile à peindre que la souffrance"[4] ("joy is a thousand times harder to paint than suffering").