Maurice Vaute


Maurice Vaute 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. He was a music teacher as well as an 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
  • 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
  • Melos

Solo instruments

  • Lied for cello and piano, Souvenance
  • Moderato allegro for trumpet and piano
  • Aube, for clarinet and piano or string quartet
  • Improvisata for saxophone alto and piano
  • Cantilène variée for saxophone alto and piano
  • Divertissement à quatre voix for trumpets
  • Invention 84 for violin and piano

Piano

  • Scherzo
  • Rondo amabile
  • Cinq minutes contemplatives, Première suite,
  • Deuxième suite
  • Troisième suite
  • Sonatine
  • Cadence, Distique, Epigramme
  • Moto perpetuo
  • Offrande for organ or piano
  • La complainte de l'agneau
  • Menuet

Orchestra and choral works

  • Fantaisie sur une chanson de Colin Muset
  • Chanson des brises

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, Aubade, Allegretto nobile"
  • Dinanderie for saxophone alto, soli, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, arrangement for two pianos

Choir

  • Barque d' or, poem by Van Lerberghe
  • Les fleurs, poem by Ovide Dieu
  • Les trois arbres au bout du monde, poem translated from iroquoian by E. Lambotte
  • Le long du quai, poem by Sully Prudhomme
  • Cantique, poem by Emile Verhaeren
  • Psychanalyse, poem by Constant de Horion
  • Paysage, poem by Simone Simon
  • Chant deuxième du "Sacre" poem by Charles Plisnier
  • Le pêcheur de lune, poem by S. Bodard
  • Chanson, poem by Charles d' Orléans
  • Le joli mai, poem by Valère Gilles
  • Villanelle, poem by M. Hemon
  • Voici la maison douce, Les heures du soir, poem by Emile Verhaeren
  • L'enfant devant la mer, poem by Elise Vaute-Croix
  • Cinq chansons à 4 voix mixtes, atonal
  • Quatre "Noëls Wallons"
  • Six chants à 2 et 3 voix for secondary schools
  • Et les blés, poem by Druet
  • Fables et chansonnettes pour jeunes
  • Poésies d'enfants, 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
  • Ciel gris, ciel noir, poem by Maurice Carême
  • Testament, poem by Lisa Chastelet
  • Le petit âne gris, poem by Louis Lecomte
  • Le petit frère, text by Madeleine Ley
  • Les parfums roux, poemby Vanham
  • 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

Harmony and fanfare

  • Auprès de toi - aria for fanfare
  • Entracte commémoratif - Marche de concert for fanfare
  • Poème pastoral,
  • 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
  • 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