Johannes van Bree

Johannes Bernardus van Bree was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor from the Romantic era. Van Bree was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.
From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam.
As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).