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Maurice Vaute (27 April 1913 – 21 June 2000) was a Belgian composer of classical music, conductor and music teacher.

Biography

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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

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Initially, he was influenced by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Joseph Jongen, his teacher. Later, his compositions were atonal.

Compositions

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Symphonic works

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  • 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

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  • Le reflet dans la Meuse (argument de Malfère)
  • Melos

Solo instruments

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Fantaisie sur une chanson de colin Muset (Moyen-âge)
  • Chanson des brises (Bouilhet, French poet 1823-1869)

Chamber music

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  • 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

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  • 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)

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  • 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

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  • 21 morceaux de solfège à 5 clés (voice and piano)

Harmony and fanfare

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Thierry Levaux, Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique, Editions Art in Belgium, Conseil de la musique de la Communauté française, 2004, ISBN 2-930338-37-7
  • Rik Decan, Qui est qui en Belgique francophone, éditions BRD, Bruxelles, 1981, ISBN 90-6598-001-6
  • Fonds Maurice Vaute, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.
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