Wangermée, Robert
Wangermée, Robert
Wangermée, Robert, distinguished Belgian musicologist; b. Lodelinsart, Sept. 21, 1920. He received training in music from J. Absil, and pursued musico-logical studies at the Free Univ. of Brussels (Ph.D., 1946, with the diss. Le Goût musical en France au XIXe siècle); then was on its faculty as a lecturer (1948-62), reader (1962-65), and prof, (from 1975). He also was active with the Belgian Radio and Television (from 1946), serving as its director of music (1953-60) and as director-general of its French-language broadcasts (1960-84).
Writings
(all publ. in Brussels): Jean-Sébastien Bach (1944); Ludwig van Beethoven (1945); Les Maîtres de chant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles à la collégiale des SS. Michel et Gudale, à Bruxelles (1950); François-Joseph Fétis, musicologue et compositeur (1951); La Musique belge contemporaine (1959); La Musique flamande dans la société des XVe et XVIe siècles (1965; Eng. tr., 1965); La Musique en Wallonie et à Bruxelles (2 vols., 1980-82); ed. Paul Collaer: Correspondance avec des amis musiciens (Brussels, 1996).
Bibliography
H. Vanhulst and M. Haine, eds., Musique et Société: Hommages à R. W.(Brussels, 1988).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire