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Organists' milestones

GoneBaroque

New member
February 18

1880 Birth in Lansing Michigan of American organist, conductor, composer and music critic Eric De LAMARTER. – Died Orlando Florida 17 MAY 1953 He was also a close friend and advisor to Leo Sowerby as well as a champion of Sowerby's music DeLamarter aided Sowerby in his becoming an accomplished organist


Clarence Dickinson plays Eric DeLamarter's "The Fountain" on the Skinner organ at Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City in this live performance for an American Guild of Organists convention in 1949

 

GoneBaroque

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February 20 is the anniversary of

1649 Birth of English organist and teacher John BLOW in 1649 at Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire – Died Westminster, 1 OCT 1708

John Blow's setting of The 100[SUP]th[/SUP] Psalm as a Lesson on the Johannus organ at St Andrew, Presteigne, Powy


1925 Death at sea of Italian organist and composer Marco Enrico BOSSI Born in Salò Lombardy 25 April 1861 - In 1881, Bossi became director of music and organist at Como Cathedral. Nine years later, he was appointed as professor of organ and harmony at Naples Conservatory In November 1924, Bossi embarked on a recital tour to New York and Philadelphia where he played the Wanamaker Organ. Bossi died unexpectedly at sea while returning from the United States on February 20, 1925, and was interred at Como

Here bis his Étude Symphonique, Op. 78 played by English organist Jonathan Holmes upon the magnificent 1889 Father Willis organ of the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell, Surrey




details of which can be found here: http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D08165
 

GoneBaroque

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On February 21 we celebrate the 1844 Birth of French composer organist Charles Marie WIDOR in Lyon. Died Paris 12 MAR 1937

As a break from the famous Toccata, Arthur Wills plays Widor's Marche Pontificale on the rebuilt IV – 70 – 95 1908 Harrison & Harrison organ at Ely Cathedral

 

GoneBaroque

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February 22

1628 German organist and composer Samuel Scheidt becomes music director at Marienkirche, Halle.

Daniel Bouldjoua, organist of Freiburg's reformed church plays Samuel Scheidt's organ verse "Veni Redemptor gentium" (Come, o redeemer of peoples)

 

GoneBaroque

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February 23


1648 Baptismal date of English composer and organist JohnBLOW in Newark Nottinghamshire – Died London 1 October 1708


1685 Birth of German-born British composer George Frideric HANDEL, aka as Georg Friedrich Händel, in Halle, Saxony. Died London 14 April 1759


1704 Death of Austrian composer and organist Georg Muffat at age 50 in Passau Germany - Born Mégève, France 1 June 1653

Kirk M. Rich performs Toccata Septima from Georg Muffat's Apparatus musico-organisticus (1690) on the Brombaugh organ, Op. 25 in Oberlin College's Fairchild Chapel. The instrument dates from 1981 and is tuned in meantone


1983 Death of English composer Herbert Henry Howells at age 90, in London David Houlder plays Herberet Howells "Master Tallis Testament on the organ of the Cathedral of Saint Corentin, Quimper

 

GoneBaroque

New member
February 25

1727 Birth of French composer and Notre Dame organist Armand Louis COUPERIN, in Paris. Died in Paris 2 FEB 1789 -- In 1752 Couperin married Elisabeth-Antoinette Blanchet, a professional musician and the daughter of the best harpsichord maker in France, François-Etienne Blanchet. They had four children, three of whom became musicians - Couperin's many posts included St. Barthélemy (to 1772), St Jean-en-Grève, the convent of the Carmes-Billettes, Notre Dame (from 1755), the Sainte Chapelle (from 1760), Sainte Marguerite, and the royal chapel (from 1770)

In the absence of any of Couperin’s organ music on YouTube hre is his Simphonie de Clavecins played by Ton Koopman & Tini Mathot on two Harpsichords.

 

GoneBaroque

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March 7

1659 Possible birth date of English composer Henry PURCELL, no official record exists - Died Westminster, London, 21 NOV 1695 - He was one of the greatest English composers, flourishing in the period that followed the Restoration of the monarchy after the Puritan Commonwealth. Little is known of his birth and life- his parentage remains unclear

Enjoy an organ transcription of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary



1809 Death of Austrian composer and organist Johann Georg Albrechtsberger at age 73, in Vienna. Born 3 FEB 1736 - He gave lessons to Beethoven and succeeded Mozart, at the latter's request, as assistant to the Kapellmeister of St Stephen'


Here is his Prelude in D major, played by John Bernard Bernarding on the Christian Gerhardt Organ in the Church of the Holy Spirit at Gonnesweiler (Saarland)

 

wljmrbill

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Enjoyed the Prelude in D maj. and His organ concerto is Great too (listed after prelude finishes) of course Purcell is always good. Thanks
 
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GoneBaroque

New member
March 10

1839 Birth of American organist and composer Dudley BUCK in Hartford, Connecticut - Died West Orange New Jersey 6 October 1909

David K Lamb plays Dudley Buck’s Choral March In Canon Form (one of the first programmatic organ pieces written in America) on the Casavant Organ at the First Baptist Church in Charlotte north Carolina.

The Composer requested this to be read before the piece was played:

”March on, then, ye brave to the fray!
Come, companions in arms, to the rescue!
Steadfast courage shall win us the day,
Charge on the foes who molest you!
March in the strength of God the Lord!
He is our shield and armor!”

 

GoneBaroque

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March 12

1837 Birth of French organist and composer of over more than 90 pieces for the organ Felix Alexandre Guilmant in Boulogne-sur-Mer – Died 29 March 1911 at Meudon near Paris

Sirkka-Liisa Jussila-Gripentrog plays Guilmant’s Lamentation, Op. 45 on the 48 stop 3 manual Åkerman & Lund organ of Kallio church in Helsinki. The organ was built in 1995 was the first organ in Finland built in the style of Cavaillé-Coll.

 
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