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Éditions Hortus
Éditions Hortus is an independent French disk label, offering largely unknown songs and works for the organ in addition to contemporary compositions. Specialised in organ (music), organ and choir music, it has in particular presented disks recorded at the Notre Dame de Paris and of its choir 'Les Éléments', as well as of the young harpsichordist Benjamin Alard. Éditions Hortus wishes to produce disks containing rare or even previously unrecorded music. Vincent Genvrin is the label's artistic director. Didier Maes is its executive producer. History Founded in 1994, Éditions Hortus first showed its interest in disks with ''Via crucis (Liszt), Via crucis'' (Stations of the Cross) by Franz Liszt, interpreted by the Sacrum Choir from Riga. The CD was accompanied by a series of fifteen screenprints by Daniel Vincent and Guillaume Dégé, printed in a limited, numbered edition. On 17 November 2006, Didier Maes, producer of the label, was a guest in the France Musique programme "Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the West_Point_Cadet_Chapel.html" ;"title="United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel">United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more Pipe organ, pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electronic musical instrument, electric) for producing tones. The organs have usually two or three, sometimes up to five or more, manuals for playing with the hands and a pedalboard for playing with the feet. With the use of registers, several groups of pipes can be connected to one manual. The organ has been used in various musical settings, particularly in classical music. Music written specifically for the organ is common from the Renaissance to the present day. Pipe organs, the most traditional type, operate by forcing air through pipes of varying sizes and materials, each producing a different pitch and tone. These instruments are commonly found in churches and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît Mernier
Benoît Mernier (born 16 December 1964) is a Belgian classical organist and composer. Biography Born in Bastogne, he was a student of Philippe Boesmans. He is also professor of organ and improvisation at the Higher Institute of Music and Pedagogy in Namur. His first opera ''Frühlings Erwachen'' after Frank Wedekind was premiered in 2007 at La Monnaie of Brussels then resumed in September 2008 at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg. His works are the subject of a series of discographic productions including a CD/DVD box set of ''Frühings erwachen'' (), which was awarded a Diapason d'or in 2009. His second opera ''La Dispute'' after the eponymous play by Marivaux was premiered on 5 March 2013 at La Monnaie. Mernier premiered his first piano concerto at the opening of the 2008 "Festival de Wallonie" by French pianist Cédric Tiberghien with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège. It was later revived by David Lively and the Orchestre national de Montpellier Languedoc- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Lebrun
Éric Maurice Lebrun (born 19 November 1967) is a French composer, organist, musicologist, and author. His wife, Marie-Ange Leurent, is also an organist. Biography Born in Talence (Gironde), he was a former student of Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis, Lebrun also benefited from the teaching of Anne-Marie Barat, a pupil of André Marchal, of organists Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry and pianist Bruno Rigutto. Lebrun completed his training in the classes of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, musical analysis and history of music at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to the first prize for organ, he won three first prizes and the music history diploma. After his in 1990, he was appointed to the Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Since 1990, he was successively a lecturer at the Sorbonne, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, director of the École nationale de musique et de danse of Cachan, then professor of organ at the and that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Escaich
Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich (born 8 May 1965) is a French organist and composer. Life Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he won eight First Prizes and where he has taught improvisation and composition since 1992. Together with Vincent Warnier, he was appointed organist of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church in Paris in 1996 (succeeding Maurice Duruflé). He tours internationally as a performing artist and composer. His passion for the cinema has led him to improvise on the piano and the organ; he composed music for Frank Borzage's silent film '' Seventh Heaven'', commissioned by the Louvre in 1999. He has written more than a hundred works, awarded with the Prix des Lycéens (2002), the Grand Prix de la Musique symphonique from the SACEM in 2004, and on three occasions, in 2003, 2006 and 2011, the French Victoires de la Musique Composer of the Year award. Although he composes for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valéry Aubertin
Valéry Aubertin (born 3 June 1970) is a contemporary French organist, composer and choir conductor. Biography Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, Aubertin was a student in the organ class of Michèle Guyard at the Aubervilliers conservatory. He ended his studies with a First Prize of organ and another first prize of music formation. From 1989 to 1995, he attended the Conservatoire de Paris where he won several first prizes. Among others, he was a student of Brigitte François-Sappey (history of music and orchestration), and Gérard Grisey (musical composition). From 1995 to 1997, he worked with Jean-Louis Florentz (composition). In 1993, he won the Special Jury Prize at the Composition Competition of the in Montréal (Canada), with a work for organ ''La nuit des nuits'' (in ''Le Livre Ouvert'', Op.6). In 1995, his first symphonic work ''...et le soleil se déchirait'', Op.7 received, unanimously by the jury and ahead of 216 entries from all over the world, the First Prize of the 40th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Oehmichen
Isabelle Oehmichen (born 9 March 1961) is a French classical pianist. Biography Born in Paris, Oehmichen is First Grand Prize winner of the 1989 International Piano Competition Milosz Magin and in 1993 Laureate of the Foundation Georges Cziffra. Isabelle Oehmichen was destined for classical dance, her passion, but after a broken ankle, she really started playing the piano at 17. She began as a pianist at the Paris Opera and accompanied the danseurs étoile , Patrick Dupond, and . After years of hard work, Isabelle Oehmichen plays as a soloist throughout Europe and particularly in Central Europe. Every year she gives numerous recitals, concerts in chamber music or with orchestra. She often participates in radio and television programs (recitals filmed in Żelazowa Wola, the native home of Chopin and Saint-Saëns's 2nd concerto at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest live on Bartók Radio). Isabelle Oehmichen has already recorded several CDs of works by Chopin, Magin, Sauguet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Thiry
Louis Henry Nicolas Thiry (15 February 1935 (in French) – 27 June 2019) was a French concert organist, composer and pedagogue. He was professor of organ at the Regional Conservatoire in and played in concerts internationally. His many recordings include the complete organ works of |
Jean-Pierre Leguay
Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 4 July 1939 in Dijon) is a French organist, composer and improviser. He studied with André Marchal, Gaston Litaize, Rolande Falcinelli (organ), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint), and Olivier Messiaen (composition), before serving as titular organist at Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris from 1961 to 1984. In 1985 he was named a titular organist at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, alongside Olivier Latry, Yves Devernay and Philippe Lefebvre. He held this position through the end of 2015, and is now titular organist emeritus. From 1968 to 1989, he taught organ, improvisation (both single and in ensemble) at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Limoges (and music history until 1986), and at the Conservatoire National de Région de Dijon from 1989 to 2003. He has also been in charge of improvisation courses in Paris at the Centre d’Action Liturgique et Musical (1985-1988) and at the Conservatoire Erik Satie du 7e arrondissement. He has w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Latry
Olivier Jean-Claude Latry (; born 22 February 1962) is a French organist, improviser, teacher and composer who has served as one of the four titular organists of Notre-Dame de Paris since 1985 and is a professor of organ in the Conservatoire de Paris. Family and education Latry was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France, the youngest of three sons of Robert Latry and Andrée Thomas. His early interest in the organ came from listening to recordings of Pierre Cochereau, organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1955 to 1984. His first experience on a church organ was in 1974, when he played at the wedding of a family friend. During the homily, his arms supposedly fell onto the organ console, causing a dissonant sound. Having begun his musical studies in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Latry later enrolled in an organ class at the conservatory in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés near Paris with the blind organist Gaston Litaize, whom he had heard in concert, and took composition classes with Jean-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Éléments
Les Éléments is a professional chamber choir established in Toulouse in 1997 by choirmaster Joël Suhubiette. The choir has sung commissioned works by contemporary composers including Zad Moultaka, and Philippe Hersant. Les Éléments have worked with instrumental ensembles such as the Chambre Philharmonique (under Emmanuel Krivine ), (under Jérémie Rhorer), the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (under Tugan Sokhiev), and Les Talens Lyriques (under Christophe Rousset Christophe Rousset (; born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conducting, conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on Authentic performance, period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and ...) in interpretation of choral works from the classical repertoire. This has encompassed Mozart's Requiem, cantatas, motets and the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Fauré's Requiem, and the Nelson Mass by Joseph Haydn. Les Éléments wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
