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Oscar Roels

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Oscar August Roels (2 November 1864, in Ghent – 29 October 1938, in Ghent) was a Flemish composer and conductor.

He was a student of Adolphe Samuel and Karel Miry at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Later on, he became a teacher at this institute, where he also conducted its choir and orchestra. As a student, he played the organ at the Jesuit church of Ghent, and later on he became an organist at the Saint-Barbaracollege. As a conductor, he worked at the Royal Opera of Ghent and the Royal Dutch Theatre of Antwerp. Aside of these, he also conducted several choir- and concert-societies of Ghent, including the Société Royale des Mélomanes.

Roels oeuvre contains theater music, operettas, orchestral works, chamber music, songs, and pieces for organ.

Honours

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List of works

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Daar reed een boer naar Leuven: poem by X. Y. Z., music by Oscar Roels.
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1927)
  • De Vlaamsche Nacht
  • Zangersgroet
  • Pinksternacht
  • De witte kaproenen
  • Clodwig en Clothildis
  • Achter 't slot

References

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  1. ^ Royal Decree of H.M. King Albert I on 14.11.1919

Sources

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