Oscar Roels

Oscar August Roels (Ghent, 2 November 1864 – Ghent, 29 October 1939) was a Flemish composer and conductor.

Oscar Roels 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

1919 : Officer of the Order of Leopold.^[1]

List of works

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

↑ Royal Decree of H.M. King Albert I on 14.11.1919

Sources

Jan Dewilde. Biography at SVM

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