Ensemble Organum is a group performing

early music Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750) or Ancient music (before 500 AD). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad Dates of classical ...

, co-founded in 1982 by

Marcel Pérès Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès was ...

and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos and are influenced by Orthodox music.Ensemble Organum
www.medieval.org (subscription required) The group mainly focuses on the performance of music from the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

, including Beneventan, Old Roman, Gallican,

Carolingian The Carolingian dynasty ( ; known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid c ...

and

Mozarabic Mozarabic may refer to: *Andalusi Romance, also called the Mozarabic language *Mozarabs The Mozarabs (from ), or more precisely Andalusi Christians, were the Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim rule from 711 to ...

chants. However, the repertoire includes renaissance polyphony as well as more recent works. The ensemble was formerly based at

Sénanque Abbey Sénanque Abbey ( Occitan: ''abadiá de Senhanca'', French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque'') is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the ''département'' of the Vaucluse in Provence, France. First foundation It was founded in 1 ...

and

Royaumont Abbey Royaumont Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, located near Asnières-sur-Oise in Val-d'Oise, approximately 30 km north of Paris, France. History It was built between 1228 and 1235 with the support of Louis IX. A proclamation by Louis IX s ...

. Since 2001 it has shared facilities in the precinct of

Moissac Abbey Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne in south-western France. A number of its medieval buildings survive, including the abbey church, which has a famous and important Romanesque sculpture around t ...

with the ''Centre itinérant de recherche sur les musiques anciennes'' (Centre for Itinerant Research of Medieval and Early Music). In addition to musical performance, the ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period.

Discography

The following recordings were mainly released by

Harmonia Mundi Harmonia Mundi is a record label that specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label). It was founded in France in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of PIAS Entertainment Group, which is itself owned by Universal M ...

. * ''Polyphonie aquitaine du XIIe siècle: St. Martial de Limoges'' (1984) * ''Messe du Jour de Noel'' (École de Notre-Dame) (1985) * '' Chants de l'Église de Rome des VIIe et VIIIe siècles: période byzantine'' (1986) * Josquin Desprez: ''

Missa Pange lingua The ''Missa Pange lingua'' is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the '' ...

'' (1986) * '' Codex Chantilly: airs de cour du XIVe siècle'' (1987) * '' Corsica: Chants polyphoniques'' (1987) *

François Couperin François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque music, Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musi ...

: ''Messe a l'usage ordinaire des paroisses'' (1987) * '' Chants de l'Église Milanaise'' (1989) * '' Carmina Burana: Le Mystère de la Passion (XIIIe siècle)'' (1990) * '' Plain-chant Cathedrale d'Auxerre'' (1990) * '' Le jeu des pèlerins d'Emmaüs: drame liturgique du XIIe siècle'' (1990) * '' Messe de Tournai'' (1991) * '' Codex Faenza - Selections'' (1991) *

Palestrina Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; , ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon ...

: ''

Missa Viri Galilaei Missa may refer to: * Mass (liturgy) * Mass (music), a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music ** Missa brevis ** Missa solemnis (explains the term and lists several works) * Miss A, a Korean girl group * ''Missa pro defunctis'' and ...

'' (1992) * '' Chant Cistercien'' (1992) * '' Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne'' (1993) * ''

Messe de Saint Marcel Messe is a German word meaning trade fair; a German and a French word meaning mass (liturgy) and mass (music). Places Germany * Messe Erfurt, convention centre in Erfurt, Germany * Messe Frankfurt, convention centre operator in Frankfurt am Main ...

'' (1992) * Ockeghem: ''Requiem'' (1993) * '' Chant de la Cathedrale de Benevento'' (1993) * '' Plain-Chant Parisien: XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles'' (1994) * '' Chant Corse: Manuscrits franciscains des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles'' (1994) * '' Chant Mozarabe: Cathédrale de Tolède (XVe siècle)'' (1995) * '' École Notre Dame: Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge'' (1995) * '' Laudario di Cortona: Un mystère du XIIIe siècle'' (1996) *

Guillaume de Machaut Guillaume de Machaut (, ; also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to ...

: '' La Messe de Nostre Dame'' (1996) *

Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard of Bingen OSB (, ; ; 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner ...

: ''Laudes de Sainte Ursule'' (1997) * '' Chants de l'église de Rome - Vêpres'' (1998) * ''Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi'': Codex Calixtinus (2004) * '' Ad vesperas Sancti Ludovici Regis Franciæ'' (2005) * '' Le chant des Templiers'' (2006) * '' Incarnatio Verbi: Chant de L'Église de Rome'' (2008) * '' Missa Gotica - XIV siècle'' (2009) * '' Lux Perpetua/Requiem'' (2012)

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{{Authority control Early music groups Musical groups established in 1982 1982 establishments in France

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