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His organ at the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris (proclaimed a basilica by Pope Leo XIII in 1897) was one of the first to be built with several of these new features. Consequently, it influenced César Franck, who was the titular organist there. The organ works of Franck have inspired generations of organist-composers who came after him. [4]
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Cavaillé-Coll is responsible for many innovations that revolutionized the face of organ building, performance, and composition. Instead of the Positif, Cavaillé-Coll placed the Grand Orgue manual as the lowest manual, and included couplers that allowed the entire tonal resources of the organ to be played from the Grand Orgue. He refined the English...
Marcel Dupré stated once that "composing for an orchestra is quite different from composing for an organ...with exception of M. Cavaillé-Coll's symphonic organs: in that case one has to observe an extreme attention when writing for such kind of majestic instruments." Almost a century beforehand, César Franck had ecstatically greeted his discovery o...
Parr Hall, Warrington, EnglandSt. Denis, Saint-Denis, FranceÉglise Saint-Roch, ParisSaint-Sulpice, ParisCavaillé-Coll, Cécile. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll: Ses Origines, Sa Vie, Ses Oeuvres.Paris: Fischbacher, 1929.Douglass, Fenner. Cavaille-Coll and the French romantic tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-300-07114-0Douglass, Fenner. Cavaille-Coll and the musicians: a documented account of his first thirty years in organ building. Raleigh: Sunbury, 1980. ISBN 0-915-54809-7Snyder, Kerala J. The organ as a mirror of its time: north European reflections. 1610-2000, Oxford: NY: Oxford University Press, 2002.From then on, the new parish church was known as Saint-Jean-Saint-François. The clergy of Saint-Jean-en-Grève staffed the new church and the former curate of the martyred priest succeeded him as pastor5 and brought the baptismal fonts, stalls, other furnishings, 6and paintings from his former church. The nave seen from the organ gallery.
In 1859, Franck received a new Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Parisian church where he served as organist, Sainte-Clotilde. He began experimenting with the innovations of this instrument: an expressive division, mechanical assists, new types of tone color, and an expanded pedal division. From about 1860, Franck began composing his first pieces for ...
Aug 20, 2012 · French composer César Franck (1822-1890) was inspired by a new toy — in time for Christmas, 1859, he was appointed the first titular organist at the brand-new Sainte-Clothilde basilica in Paris, fitted with a brand-new organ by the king of French organ builders, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll — to write a piece of equivalent symphonic scale, which he finished in 1862.
The organ was re-introduced to the West in 757 when a Byzantine leader sent an organ as a diplomatic gift to Pepin, father of the great king Charlemagne (742-814). This organ, with an elaborate system of pipes, stops, and bellows, was celebrated as an engineering marvel, and was used for public rather than religious ceremony.
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Franck was a gifted improviser, and travelled France demonstrating the newly-built organs of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll; the two became friends. This new release from MDG focuses on the composer's twelve major organ works: Six Pièces, Op. 16-21 (1856-64), Trois Pièces (1878) and Trois Chorals (1890).
