Maurice Vaute Explained
Maurice Vaute (27 April 1913 - 21 June 2000) was a Belgian composer of classical music, conductor and music teacher.
Biography
Maurice Vaute was born on 27 April 1913 in Roisin and studied at the Conservatories of Mons and Brussels (harmony, fugue, saxophone, etc.). He was a music teacher and, also orchestra and choir conductor.His compositions are deposited as "Fonds Maurice Vaute" in the library of the Brussels conservatory.He died in Chimay.
Style
Initially, he was influenced by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Joseph Jongen, his teacher. Later, his compositions were atonal.
Compositions
Symphonic works
- Auprès de toi - aria, 1936
- Arlequins-fantaisie
- Gavotte ancienne
- Menuetto allegretto
- Triptyque for strings and harpsichord
- Deux mouvements pour les temps venus
- Trinôme for orchestra, soli and wind trio
- Concerto for saxophone alto and orchestra
- Symphonie de danses for orchestra and saxophone trio
- Espace, intensité (symphonie libre)
- Les heures, Trois mouvements symphoniques 1. Prélude 2. Rondo giocoso 3. Postlude
- Concerto for piano and orchestra
- Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Rondo pastoral
Ballet
- Le reflet dans la Meuse (argument de Malfère)
- Melos
Solo instruments
- Lied for cello and piano, Souvenance
- Moderato allegro for trumpet and piano
- Aube, for clarinet and piano (lied) or string quartet
- Improvisata for saxophone alto and piano
- Cantilène variée for saxophone alto and piano (Editions Maurer Bruxelles)
- Divertissement à quatre voix for trumpets
- Invention 84 for violin and piano
Piano
- Scherzo
- Rondo amabile
- Cinq minutes contemplatives, Première suite,(Ed. Armiane, Versailles)
- Deuxième suite (Vieille chanson, Danse naïve (Ed. Armiane, Versailles), Mélopée)
- Troisième suite (Ed. Maurer, Bruxelles)
- Sonatine
- Cadence, Distique, Epigramme
- Moto perpetuo
- Offrande for organ or piano (Ed. Armiane, Versailles)
- La complainte de l'agneau
- Menuet
Orchestra and choral works
- Fantaisie sur une chanson de colin Muset (Moyen-âge)
- Chanson des brises (Bouilhet, French poet 1823-1869)
Chamber music
- Impromptu for double wind quartet
- Wind quintet and piano on a Russian theme
- Impromptu for saxophone quartet
- Quatre inventions à trois voix for flute, clarinet and bassoon
- Choral et divertissement for saxophone quartet
- String quartet "Stances d'aujourd'hui"
- Third saxophone quartet "Nocturne (Ed. Maurer Bruxelles), Aubade, Allegretto nobile"
- Dinanderie for saxophone alto, soli, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, arrangement for two pianos
Choir
- Barque d' or (4 voix d'hommes), poem by Van Lerberghe
- Les fleurs (4 voix mixtes), poem by Ovide Dieu
- Les trois arbres au bout du monde (4 voix mixtes and piano), poem translated from iroquoian by E. Lambotte
- Le long du quai (4 voix mixtes), poem by Sully Prudhomme
- Cantique (4 voix mixtes and piano), poem by Emile Verhaeren
- Psychanalyse (4 voix mixtes), poem by Constant de Horion
- Paysage (4 voix mixtes), poem by Simone Simon
- Chant deuxième du "Sacre" poem by Charles Plisnier
- Le pêcheur de lune (4 voix mixtes), poem by S. Bodard
- Chanson (4 voix mixtes et clavecin), poem by Charles d' Orléans
- Le joli mai (4 voix mixtes et piano), poem by Valère Gilles
- Villanelle (4 voix mixtes et piano), poem by M. Hemon
- Voici la maison douce (4 voix mixtes et piano), Les heures du soir, poem by Emile Verhaeren
- L'enfant devant la mer (4 voix de femmes, string orchestra and English horn), poem by Elise Vaute-Croix
- Cinq chansons à 4 voix mixtes, atonal (poems by Maeterlinck, Carême, Druet, Verhaeren en Libbrecht
- Six chants à 2 et 3 voix (poems by Carême, Ley, Simon)
- Quatre "Noëls Wallons"
- Six chants à 2 et 3 voix for secondary schools
- Et les blés (4 voix mixtes), poem by Druet
- Fables et chansonnettes pour jeunes (text by Ki Wist alias Jacques Henriquez)
- Poésies d'enfants (4 voix mixtes), atonal
Lieder (voice and piano)
- La lune blanche, poem by Verlaine
- Spleen, poem by Marguerite Denée
- Chanson triste, poem by J.M.Deronchène
- Intimité, poem by Denise Malray-Ticx
- J'ai perdu ma peine, poem by Simone Simon
- Prière, poem Suzette Bodard
- Aix-en-Provence, poem by Georges Jean Bartel
- Instants, poem by Denise Malray-Ticx
- Hommes de tous pays, poem by Laure Rolland
- Le démon des orages, poem by Jean-Louis Vanham
- Partage, poem by Vanham (atonal)
- Ciel gris, ciel noir, poem by Maurice Carême
- Testament, poem by Lisa Chastelet
- Le petit âne gris, poem by Louis Lecomte (atonal)
- Le petit frère, text by Madeleine Ley
- Les parfums roux, poemby Vanham (atonal)
- Dis-moi qui c'est, poem by Ki Wist, alias Jacques Henriquez
- Chant de Noël, from Les chansons et les heures de Marie-Noël
Music theory
- 21 morceaux de solfège à 5 clés (voice and piano)
Harmony and fanfare
- Auprès de toi - aria for fanfare
- Entracte commémoratif - Marche de concert for fanfare
- Poème pastoral, (arr. for harmony and solo horn)
- Prélude en rondo voor fanfare
- Pavane pour le teddy - fantasy for fanfare of harmony
- Pour un anniversaire - Marche de concert for fanfare and harmony
- Menuetto allegretto for fanfare and harmony
- Danse des villageois - uittreksel from ballet "Le reflet dans la Meuse" for harmony and fanfare
Light music
- Saxophone alto and piano (Ed. Buyst, Bruxelles)
- Two soli: Parfum d'une rose and Atlantic
- Jenny
Pseudonym: Jean Morivaut
- Toute belle, piano and accordion
- Belle promenade, piano and accordion
- Sans souci
- Simple histoire, Fox trott
- Comprendras-tu, slow fox
Bibliography
- Thierry Levaux, Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique, Editions Art in Belgium, Conseil de la musique de la Communauté française, 2004,
- Rik Decan, Qui est qui en Belgique francophone, éditions BRD, Bruxelles, 1981,
- Fonds Maurice Vaute, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.
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