Maurice Vaute
# Maurice Vaute

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
