Rose Thisse-Derouette was a Belgian composer, conductor, musicologist, folklorist and teacher. She was born in 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....

, Belgium

Belgium

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, and won the 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...

for composition.

Thisse-Derouette wrote articles on folkloric dance in the 1960s, including Our older players in Ardennes - Retrospective of a profession which has disappeared: li mestre, published in Watcher in the Walloon, No. 3, Le recueil de danses manuscrit d’un ménétrier ardennais, published in Annales de l'institut archéologique du Luxembourg (éd. Fasbender, Arlon), and Nos vieux joueurs de dans ardennais/ She died in Liège, Belgium, in 1989.

Works

Thisse-Derouette composed for vocal performance and opera. Selected works include:

• Danses Populaires de Wallonie with Jenny Falize Thisse-Derouette
• Le recueil de danses
• Poqwè HAD 'nin v'ni for solo voice and piano