title: Maurice Vaute
text: # 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
  