Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.

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Flute Sonata, Op. 77 (1924)

I. . Prélude: Modéré (0:00)
II. Trés animé (8:12)
III. Modéré (13:21)
IV. Gigue: Allegro (20:04)

Kathinka Pasveer, flute and Stanley Hoogland, piano
Radio Broadcast August 22, 1989, Hilversum, the Netherlands

Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years there. Jongen won a First Prize for Fugue in 1895, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896. In 1897, he won the Belgian Prix de Rome, which allowed him to travel to Italy, Germany and France.

He began composing at the age of 13, and immediately exhibited exceptional talent in that field too. By the time he published his Opus 1, he already had dozens of works to his credit. His monumental and massive First String Quartet was composed in 1894 and was submitted for the annual competition for fine arts held by the Royal Academy of Belgium, where it was awarded the top prize by the jury.

In 1902, he returned to his native land, and in the following year he was named a professor of harmony and counterpoint at his old Liège college. With the outbreak of World War I, he and his family moved to England, where he founded a piano quartet. When peace returned, he came back to Belgium and was named professor of fugue at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. From 1925 until 1939, he served as director of that institution; he was succeeded by his brother Léon Jongen. Fourteen years after leaving the directorship, Joseph Jongen died at Sart-lez-Spa, Belgium.

Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, daughter of the conductor Jan Pasveer, who also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She studied with Frans Vester at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she received her performer's diploma, with the distinction of the Nicolai Prize in 1983. During her final year of studies she was the principal flutist of the Gewestelijk Orkest Zuid-Holland.

From 1998 up to the present time, Pasveer has taught the interpretation of Stockhausen's works at the Stockhausen Courses for New Music held each summer in Kürten. Beginning in 1983, she assisted Stockhausen in the production of recordings and learned from him the techniques of sound projection used in most of his works. Since the composer’s death, she has acted as sound projectionist in many live performances, and has produced and mixed down all the recordings in the Stockhausen Complete Edition. Stockhausen also entrusted her, together with Antonio Pérez-Abellán, with the production of the sound loops in the 24 individual layers of his electronic work Cosmic Pulses in 2006.

In 1983 Stockhausen composed KATHINKAs GESANG (flute and 6 percussionists) for Kathinka. He dedicated many other works to her.

Stanley Hoogland (Deventer, 30 april 1939) is a Dutch pianist who specializes in fortepiano. He studied piano and music theory at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Jaap Spaanderman. He continued his studies in London with Maria Curcio and in Bloomington, USA with Menahem Pressler.
Stanley Hoogland was one of the first to specialize in fortepiano and its repertoire. He made many recordings with this instrument in the beginning of the seventies, often in duo, with cellist Anner Bijlsma, violinist Vera Beths, cellist Hidemi Suzuki and flutist Frans Vester.
He was a member of the Amsterdam Fortepiano Trio and many times a soloist with the Orchestra of the Eigthteenth Century conducted by Frans Brüggen.
He also was a piano teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, the Netherlands.