A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vroye, Théodore de
VROYE, Théodore Joseph de, Belgian writer on music, born Aug. 19, 1804, at Villers-la-Ville, between Ottignies and Fleurus (Belgium), was ordained priest in 1828, and has devoted all his spare time to the study of plain-song and the liturgical singing of the church. In 1835 he was appointed Canon and Precentor of the Cathedral of Liege, and conducted the services with a care and taste which produced remarkable results. He published a 'Vespéral' (1829), a 'Graduel' (1831), and a 'Processionale' (1849), which have passed through many editions in Belgium; also, a 'Traité du Plain-Chant' (1839), and a 'Manuale Cantorum' (1849). His last work, 'De la Musique Religieuse' (1866), written in conjunction with the Chevalier Van Elewyck, is a collection of documents and observations relating to the Congresses of Paris (1860) and Mechlin (1863–64) on service music. De Vroye died at Liege, July 29, 1873.
He must not be confounded with A. de Vroye, a clever flute-player, who has played in Paris every winter for the last dozen years, but of whose history nothing can be discovered.