Hervé Roullet

Hervé Roullet (born 7 September 1947) is a composer and French Catholic writer. Biography Roullet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, on 7 September 1947. He is an engineer from the École supérieure d’agriculture d’Angers and he graduated from IAE Paris (also known as Sorbonne Graduate Business School). He spent his professional career in the Parisian headquarters of various banking groups. He is also a composer of piano music and liturgical chants and Christian writer. Musical works Roullet was taught by Henry Mesmin, a disciple of Vincent d’Indy and Déodat de Séverac. He is of the romantic tradition, with modern characteristics. The writer and music critic Jean Cabourg defined him as a “musical watercolor artist haunted by grace " and added “a music which smells good, to quote Claude Debussy”. His music, which is intimate and melodious, expresses a personal and original language. He pays homage to the beauty of creation, and appears to aim for an ideal which will give peace of mind and change of scenery. * Piano pieces The Pieces for piano are in two volumes : the Croquis champêtres et the Voyages oniriques. Patrick Tudoret, the 2009 Grand prix de la Critique littéraire