Moerane, Michael

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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