Biography

Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was born in Angleur

Angleur

Angleur is a district of the Walloon city of Liège, Belgium, since 1977. It is located at the foot and on the slope of a hill in the southern part of Liège, located between the rivers Ourthe and Meuse. The lower part involves an area known as "Renory" and a railway station called "Angleur", and the...

, Belgium

Belgium

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. She studied theory with Désiré Duysens, harmony with Louis Lavoye and piano with Jeanne House at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège

Liège

Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

, and composition under Léon Jongen at the Brussels Royal Academy of Music.

She married at eighteen, but completed her studies and then took a position teaching harmony at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège.
In 1949, Berthe di Vito-Delvaux moved to Hasselt

Hasselt

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, and then in 1964 back to Angleur where she died in 2005.

Awards and honors

Di Vito-Delvaux received honors and awards including:

• Maria Prize from the City of Liège 1938
• Prix de Rome
  Prix de Rome
  The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
  
   in 1943
• Composition prize from the province of Limburg
  Limburg (Belgium)
  Limburg is the easternmost province of modern Flanders, which is one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium. It is located west of the river Meuse . It borders on the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège, Flemish Brabant...
  
   1952
• Modeste Grétry Prize from Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappi (SABAM) in 1962
• Consecration Prize from the Province of Liège in 1978.

Works

Di Vito-Delvaux composed ballets, opera, and theatrical works, as well as works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and instruments. Selected works include:

• Sonata for horn and piano, Op. 109
• A Jacqueline op. 157, 1985 for violin and piano
• Abandon op. 169, 1988 for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Abigaïl op. 45, 1950 opera
• Abigaïl: Air de Hugo op. 45, 1950 for tenor and piano
• Adagio op. 68, 1954 for cello and piano
• Airs à danser op. 48, 1950 for orchestra
• Airs à danser op. 49, 1951 for piano
• Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 60, 1955
• Amours païennes op. 24, 1943 for tenor, soprano, women's choir and orchestra
• Ariane et Bacchus/Bacchantes op. 24, 1943 for orchestra
• Au long du chemin for women's choir a cappella
• Concerto, Op. 120 1969
• Grétry comic opera, Op. 137

Her compositions have been recorded and issued on CD including:

• Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (1915-2005) Chamber Music: Works for Voice and Wind Instruments, Audio CD, Quartziade

External links

• Full list of works