Flor Peeters

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Flor Peeters (July 4, 1903 – July 4, 1986) was a Belgian composer, organist and teacher. Born and raised in Tielen, he was the youngest child in a family of eleven. At sixteen, Peeters began his studies at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, where he studied with Lodewijk Mortelmans, Jules van Nuffel and Oscar Depuydt. Depuydt was well known for his collaboration with the Desmet brothers on the first set of Gregorian accompaniments produced by the Lemmens Institute.

Peeters would later collaborate with Jules van Nuffel and the other professors at the Lemmens Institute, to produce the Nova Organi Harmonia. In 1923 he became an organ teacher at the Lemmens Institute and chief organist at the cathedral in Mechelen. As an organist and teacher, he enjoyed great renown, giving concerts and liturgical masterclasses all over the world. He also made recordings of sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century organ music; some of these have been reissued in recent years on compact disc.

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