ROLAND, Claude-Robert
Claude-Robert ROLAND (Pont-de-Loup (Hainaut), 19th December 1935)
After his classical education he studied music at the conservatories of Mons, Liège, Paris and Brussels.
Attracted to contemporary music and the avant-garde, he took courses in conducting at Gravesano with Herman Scherchen, worked in Darmstadt with Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Bruno Maderna and studied in Paris with Marie-Madeleine Petit Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaumes.
He was organist in several Belgian cities. Since 1966 he has been director of the Music Academy of Montignies-le-Tilleul and since 1972 professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. As founder of the music circle “Musique vivante” he has promoted number of young contemporary performing artists and composers.
He has a vast musical culture and persues a career as composer, organist, musicologist and conductor. As a composer he is mostly self-taught. Many of his works are written in a rather free dodecaphonic style.
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works
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"Oui", ils ont dit"Oui"! op. 74, 1981
organ 00:01:35 -
2.948 op. 79, 1983
tenor saxhorn 00:04:30 -
Air du Japon et deux doubles op. 35, 1967
piano 00:02:00 -
Ballade op. 34, 1967
violin and piano 00:08:00 -
Ballade de Villon op. 37, 1967
male voice and guitar 00:04:00 -
Chansons et rêveries op. 29, 1962
violin and piano 00:07:00 -
Chansons wallones II op. 44, 1968
one-part choir and chamber orchestra 00:00:00 -
Chansons wallones III op. 44, 1970
one-part choir, instruments and four-handed piano 00:00:00 -
Chants de mort et de vie op. 71, 1980
female voice and piano 00:08:00 -
Chants pour le jeudi de la Cène (op. liturgicum), 1967
mixed Choir a cappella 00:00:00 -
Cinq chants op. 5/53, 1954
high voice and piano 00:04:30 -
Cinq chants op. 5/53, 1954
female voice and wind quartet 00:04:30 -
Cinq exercices pour le piano op. 19, 1959
piano 00:03:00 -
Concerto op. 30, 1963
organ and chamber orchestra 00:16:00 -
Datura 281 op. 87, 1987
piano 00:03:45 -
Décap op. 89, 1989
4 clarinets 00:02:00 -
Decantus psalmorum op. 42, 1968
Soprano, mixed choir and orchestra 00:08:00 -
Deux chansons op. 68, 1980
trombone and piano 00:04:30 -
Faits divers op. 72, 1981
horn and piano 00:04:30 -
Homenatgeà Catalunya op. 91, 1991
mixed choir and various instruments 00:08:30 -
Improvisation op. 91/bis, 1991
piano 00:06:00 -
Improvisations op. 31, 1965
chamber organ 00:02:30 -
In Memoriam Etienne Mawet op. 52, 1972
organ 00:06:00 -
Indicatif 1 op. 14, 1957
12 strings (solo) 00:08:00 -
Intonationes op. 41, 1968
organ 00:10:00 -
L'éternelle question op. 4, 1954
Bass and piano 00:01:00 -
L'étrange trépas de Messire Uylenspiegel op. 15, 1958
theatre music 00:08:00 -
Lent op. 12, 1956
organ 00:05:00 -
Lent op. 8, 1955
2 violins, viola and cello 00:02:00 -
Mélodies populaires wallones I, 1996
one-part choir and chamber orchestra 00:00:00 -
Mélodies pour les funérailles (op. liturgicum), 1966
Choir (1 voice) and organ 00:00:00 -
Messe op. 6, 1955
2 boys'voices, 2 men's voices and organ 00:15:00 -
Messe brève (op. liturgicum), 1966
Choir (1 voice) and organ 00:00:00 -
Messe oecuménique (op. liturgicum), 1966
voice 00:00:00 -
Musique pour Tourgueniev op. 33, 1966
theatre music 00:08:00 -
Nonante-sept dictées op. 64, 1966
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Onze solfèges op. 55, 1975
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Pater noster (romain) (op. liturgicum), 1966
Choir (1 voice) and organ 00:00:00 -
Pater, Ave, Gloria op. 21, 1960
male voices and organ 00:02:30 -
Petit office d'uneâme du Purgatoire op. 2, 1954
Soprano and organ 00:09:00 -
Petite marche op. 45, 1969
trumpet in B flat and piano 00:01:30 -
Petites variations op. 46, 1970
trumpet (B flat or C) and piano 00:02:30 -
Point d'orgue op. 94, 1996
2 voices, clarinet or bassoon, violin and cello 00:04:00 -
Point d'orgue op. 94, 1996
2 voices, clarinet, violin and cello 00:04:00 -
Point d'orgue op. 94, 1996
2 voices, bassoon, violin and cello 00:04:00 -
Polyphonies pour Noël (op. liturgicum), 1965
mixed Choir a cappella 00:00:00 -
Por Federico op. 59, 1978
flute 00:04:00 -
Pour Axelle op. 92, 1993
recorder ensemble and four-handed piano 00:03:00 -
Pour Loïc : Berceuse op. 82, 1984
recorder and guitar 00:03:00 -
Prélude et fugue sur B.A.C.H. op. 23, 1960
organ 00:08:00 -
Prélude [à une fanfare] op. 49, 1971
fanfare 00:02:30 -
Prélude, fugue et rondo op. 40, 1967
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon 00:09:00 -
Préludes op. 28, 1962
piano 00:10:00 -
Quarante-cinq dictées à 1 voix et 2 dictées d'examen op. 54, 1975
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Quare fremuerunt gentes op. 17, 1958
Tenor solo, choir and orchestra 00:02:30 -
Quatre pièces op. 7, 1955
organ 00:09:00 -
Quatre pièces op. 1, 1953
flute, violin, piano 00:05:00 -
Recherche op. 13, 1956
chamber orchestra 00:02:00 -
Res, non verba op. 39, 1966
4 clarinets 00:12:00 -
Ricordanza op. 90, 1990
bass clarinet and piano 00:04:30 -
Rondeau op. 65, 1979
organ 00:05:00 -
Rondeau en concert op. 67, 1979
violin and piano 00:06:00 -
Rossignolet du bois op. 50, 1971
orchestra 00:17:00 -
Rythmes op. 66, 1979
percussion and piano 00:12:00 -
Sakura op. 38, 1967
organ 00:12:00 -
Sérénade op. 26, 1961
chamber orchestra 00:18:00 -
Sept entre-jeuxà cinq op. 16, 1958
2 violins, 2 cor anglais and 1 cello 00:01:15 -
Sinfonia scolastica op. 24, 1961
orchestra 00:24:00 -
Solennisation de messe basse, 1948
organ 00:18:00 -
Solfèges pour Florenville op. 70, 1980
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Solfèges pour Sainte-Cécile op. 73, 1981
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Sonance op. 27, 1962
flute 00:04:00 -
Sonance op. 11, 1956
2 violins, viola and cello 00:06:15 -
Sonance 1 op. 9, 1955
piano 00:06:00 -
Sonance 1 op. 18, 1959
clavichord 00:01:30 -
Sonance 1 op. 25, 1961
orchestra 00:20:00 -
Sonance 2 op. 22, 1960
piano 00:10:00 -
Sonancelle op. 36, 1967
guitar 00:10:15 -
Thriller op. 81, 1986
trumpet and piano 00:04:30 -
Travaux pour l'harmonie, 1999
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Travaux pour l'harmonie, 1999
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Travaux pour l'harmonie, 1997
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Trois chants op. 20, 1960
Baritone and piano 00:06:00 -
Trois pièces op. 3, 1954
violin and orchestra 00:08:00 -
Variations sur"Puer Nobis Nascitur" op. 10, 1955
positive organ 00:10:00 -
Vibra-song op. 58, 1970
vibraphone and piano 00:00:00 -
Vingt-cinq dictées atonales à une, deux et trois voix op. 62, 1975
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00 -
Vingt-et-une dictées op. 63, 1976
didactic (instrumental music) 00:00:00
