Victor Vreuls
# Victor Vreuls

Victor Jean Léonard Vreuls (Verviers, 4 February 1876 – Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 26 or 27 July 1944) was a classical Belgian composer, violinist and conductor.

## Selected works

### Stage

* Olivier le Simple, Opera in 3 acts (1909–1911); premiered 1922 in Brussels
* Un songe d'une nuit d'été (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Opera in 3 acts after the play by Shakespeare (1923–1924); premiered 1925 in Brussels
* Le loup-garou (The Werewolf), Légende chorégraphique (ballet) in 1 act (1935); premiered 1937 in Ghent

### Orchestral

* Cortège héroïque (1894)
* Symphony in E major for violin and orchestra (1899)
* Poème in E♭ major for cello and orchestra, Op. 3 (1900); version for cello (or viola) and piano (1904)
* Jour de fête, Symphonic Poem (1904)
* Werther (1907); after the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
* Adagio for string orchestra
* Morceau de Concert for trumpet and orchestra (or piano) (1917)
* Élégie for flute and chamber orchestra (or piano) (1917)
* Fantaisie for French horn and orchestra (or piano) (1918)
* Romance for violin and chamber orchestra (1924)
* Caprice for violin and chamber orchestra (1924)
* Deuxième Poème (Poem No. 2) for cello and orchestra (or piano) (1930)
* Suite de danses (1939)
* Ouverture pour un drame (1940)
* Rhapsodie modèrne
* Evocation for chamber orchestra

### Chamber music

* Piano Quartet (1894)
* Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 1 (1896)
* Sonata No. 1 in B major for violin and piano (1899)
* String Quartet in F major (1903)
* Sonata No. 2 in G major for violin and piano (1919)
* Sonata in D minor for cello and piano (1922)

### Piano

* En Ardenne (published 1918)
* Prélude élégiaque (published 1921)
* Caprice in E major (published 1921)

### Vocal

* Tryptique for voice and orchestra (published 1903); poem by Paul Verlaine
* 3 Mélodies for voice and piano (published 1912)

   * L'automne sur la Fagne (1907); poem by Jean Dominique

   * Le soir (1910); poem by René Lyr

   * J'ai reposé mon âme! (My soul found peace!) (1903); poem by Stuart Merrill
* La gerbe ardennaise for voice and piano (published 1920); words by Adolphe-Marie Hardy

   * Vesprées

   * Coin perdu

   * Dans les bois

   * L'heure du rêve
* La Guirlande des dunes, 5 Poèmes de Émile Verhaeren for voice and piano (published 1920)

   * Temps gris

   * Femme des dunes

   * Midi

   * Les Gas de la mer

   * Bruges au loin
* Pour toi for voice and piano (published 1921); poem by Tina Louant
* Chanson for voice and piano (Si tu laissais parler mon rêve il parlerait si bas); poem by Jules Delacre
* Renouveau for voice and orchestra; poem by René Lyr
* Cantata for chorus and orchestra

## Honours

* 1932 : Commander in the Order of Leopold.
