Pierre Malan

Pierre Malan (1923-1998) was a music teacher and composer.

Also credited as Jacques Pierre Malan or J. Pierre Malan.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Besides his compositions and songs[1], he wrote a few musicals, and in the 1960s was encouraged by DALRO to produce works for schools and amateur groups, sometimes in association with the playwrights Anna Rudolph and Coenie Rudolph.

Operettas include:

• Ridders van die Swartwoud (1954)
• Die towenaar van Drakenstein (1954)
• Die Minnesangers (1957)
• Lodilla (1962)
• My Suiderland (1970)
• Die Silwer Sambreeltjie (or The silver umbrella, with a libretto by Anna Rudolph and Coenie Rudolph, 1970)
• Die goue hert (1970)
• Prys vir 'n meisie (with a libretto by Anna Rudolph, 1971)
• Freule Marieke (1971)
• Die Grenspos (1971)
• Boomvolkies (1973)

Sources

Database: South African Studies.

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AMalan%2C+Pierre%2C&qt=hot_author

Hilde Roos. 2010. 'Opera Production in the Western Cape: Strategies in Search of Indigenisation'. Unpublished PhD thesis. Stellenbosch University.

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