Radoux-Rogier
Radoux-Rogier
Radoux-Rogier (real name, Radoux), Charles , Belgian pedagogue, writer on music, and composer, son of Jean-Théodore Radoux; b. Liège, July 30, 1877; d. there, April 30, 1952. He studied with his father at the Liège Cons., winning the Belgian Prix de Rome with his cantata Geneviève de Brabant (1907); was made a prof. of harmony there (1905). He wrote music criticism and was active in folk-song research; served as inspector of music education (1930–42). His compositions included 2 operas, Les Sangliers des Ardennes (1905) and Oudelette (Brussels, April 11, 1912), orch. pieces, chamber music, piano pieces, choral works, and folk song albums.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire
More From encyclopedia.com
Zoltan Kodaly , Kodály, Zoltán
Kodály, Zoltán, renowned Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator; b. Kecskemet, Dec. 16, 1882; d. Budapest, March 6,… Ruth Crawford , Seeger, Ruth Porter Crawford
Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger
American composer, music teacher and musicologist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) is regard… Heitor Villa-lobos , Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Villa-Lobos, Heitor, remarkable Brazilian composer of great originality and unique ability to recreate native melodic and rhythmi… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… Reginald Smith Brindle , Smith Brindle, Reginald
Smith Brindle, Reginald, English composer, teacher, and writer on music; b. Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, Jan. 5, 1917. He studi… Karol Szymanowski , Szymanowski, Karol (b Tymoshovka, Ukraine, 1882; d Lausanne, 1937). Polish composer. Boyhood spent in Ukraine, where many Poles owned land. Showed ea…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Radoux-Rogier