Description

MAURICE FELIX JOSEPH DAMBOIS (LUIK, BELGIUM, 30 MARCH, 1889 – LUIK, BELGIUM, 12 NOVEMBER, 1969)

He was son of music teacher Joseph Hubert Dambois and Marie Henriette Laura Gillard. He studied at the Conservatory of Liège (1899- 1905). Already at the age of twelve he played at the casino orchestra of Spa. He was a member of the Eugène Ysaÿe’s string trio. He made concert tours through Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Portugal. In the meantime he also taught at the conservatory and in 1912 became a professor. In the First World War he moved to England and made a well-received concert tour through the United States. Once back in Belgium he started teaching at the Royal Conservatory Brussels. Among his students were Victor Legley and Edmond Baert. During his lessons he promoted, among other things, works of Belgian composers such as Servais, Ernest Demunck and Jules Deswert. Ysaÿe dedicated his Sonata for cello solo (Op. 28) to him, Joseph Jongen did the same with his Sonata for violin and cello (co-dedicated to Alfred Dubois). He made records for Columbia and Vocalion.

TRACKLIST

1. Angel’s Serenade (Braga) Vocalion A24024
2. Berceuse Slave (Neruda) Columbia J5251 WLB248
3. Dream of Love (Liszt) Vocalion A32002
4. Jocelyn (Godard) Berceuse A24009
5. Le Cygne (Saint-Saëns) Columbia J5482 200839
6. Le Cygne (Saint-Saëns) Vocalion A32000
7. Le Saule (Hahn) Columbia WLB247B J5251
8. Let the Rest of the World Go By (Ball) Vocalion B24014 B 24014
9. Love’s Old Sweet Song (Molloy) Vocalion A24014 A 24014
10. Melody in F (Rubinstein) with Marcel Hansotte (piano) Vocalion B 24024
11. Salut D’Amour (Elgar) Vocalion B32002
12. Scherzo (Dittesdorf) Vocalion B24009
13. Traumerei (Schumann) Vocalion B32000
14. Trio de la Cour de Belgique Pianotrio in F op.18 (Saint-Saëns) Allegro vivace… Andante… Scherzo-presto… Allegro with E. Bosquet (piano) and A. Dubois (violin)
15. Trio de la Cour de Belgique La pantomime; l’indiscrète (Rameau) with E. Bosquet (piano) and A. Dubois (violin)
16. Trio No.3 in E K.542 (Mozart) 1 Mov. and 2 Mov. with Emile Bosquet (piano) and Alfred Dubois (violin)
17. Maurice Dambois Trio No.3 in E K.542 (Mozart) Finale with Emile Bosquet (piano) and Alfred Dubois (violin)