Oscar Roels

Oscar August Roels (Ghent, 2 November 1864 - Ghent, 29 oktober 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.

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

Source

Jan Dewilde. Biography at SVM

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