MOERANE, Michael Mosoeu
b. 20 September 1909
d. February 1980
Moerane received his schooling at the Lovedale Institute, then studied at Fort Hare. He taught thereafter at various high schools in Maseru, Gumtree and elsewhere. He received composition lessons from F. H. Hartmann, professor in music at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, though he was otherwise largely self-taught. In 1941, he became the first black South African to be awarded a BMus degree (at UNISA), in partial fulfillment of which he submitted his symphonic poem Fatse la heso (My Country). This work, based on African songs, was first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould in 1944 in London, subsequently received performances in France and the USA, and has now been released on CD.
Orchestral works:
Fatsa la heso, symphonic poem, 1941
Chorale, for school orchestra (flute, clarinet, piano and strings)
Sunrise, for school orchestra (flute, clarinet, piano and strings)
Why worry?, for school orchestra (flute, clarinet and strings)
Piano solo music:
Fantasia
In Hout Bay
Joy ride
Lonesome
Choral Music (all SATB):
Atamelang
Banozolo: ke tla bina
Barali ba Jerusalema
Ba tsabang molimo: yizani nive
Bokang Jesu
Ea folisang maloetse a hoa: mbonge u-Yehova
Ea hlolang
Hobane re tsoaletsoa ngoana: ngokuba sizalelwe umtwana
Jehova oa busa: Psalm93
Ke rata Jehova
Leseli la hao: thuma ukukhaya kwakho: Psalm 93
Mehauhelo ea hao
Moea oa ka: Psalm 119
U tloahatsang lifela: ndiya kubulela kuyehova
Vizani kum: tlong ho ’na
Vumani ku Yehova: merabe rorisang: Psalm 96
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