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The 37 spiritual canticles constituting the collection by Charles de Courbes were published in 1622 by the music printer of Louis XIII, Pierre Ballard. They are varied polyphonies, covering all the as...

For a catholic Breton like Jean Cras, it was only but natural to write a mass. To choose this "very special genre", an a cappella mass, was the result from his particular technical and aesthetic pursu...

Best known for his operas like Manon (1884) or Werther (1892), Jules Massenet (1842-1912) also wrote orchestral suites and an abundant vocal and choral production, dominated by his many art-songs, som...

Today best known for his music for organ, Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) was in his time a famous organist and improviser. His vocal compositions are a significant part of his production as they inclu...

Best remembered as an opera composer (Faust, 1859; Roméo et Juliette, 1867), Charles Gounod (1818-1893) also wrote an important body of religious music testifying to his catholic faith: cantatas, lati...

Two words summarize César Franck (1822-1890), a composer often labeled as a church musician: Christian and romantic. Today known for his symphonic music and his works for organ, Franck also wrote a la...

Léo Delibes left his native Sarthe in 1848 to Paris where he studied at the Conservatoire, whilst being a choir boy at la Madeleine church. A few years later, he became the organist at Saint-Pierre de...

The title of this piece comes from the magnificent great Gregorian antiphon Salve Regina, probably written in the 11th century that has been since inspiring musicians for almost a thousand years. This...

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Details: soloist or choir and organ

This psalm is dated 16 March 1768 and hand-signed by the composer. It is a "great French motet" alternating recits, an "angels chorus", dialogues between a 5-voices chorus and a soloist. Composed at t...

Oldham's setting of the Laudes creaturarum was composed in 1961 as a result of a commission from the Spode Music Week, a festival with workshops, founded in 1954 and still in existence. During those w...

Oldham's setting of the Laudes creaturarum was composed in 1961 as a result of a commission from the Spode Music Week, a festival with workshops, founded in 1954 and still in existence. During those w...

I composed this mass in the first years of my presence at Notre-Dame, before the creation of the association Musique sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris and the restructuring of the cathedral's choir in its...

Gontran Dessagnes's real identity as a composer expressed itself with the guitar and thanks to the encounter sparked off by his newly-appointed teacher, Fernand Fernandez-Lavie, with the prestigious s...

We know of six works for piano solo by Reicha having "Variations" in the title. The first is the opening movement of the Sonata in F major, written in about 1800 and based on a theme by Mozart. It has...

This edition of Variations on the air Charmante Gabrielle, Op. 85, is based on that published by Gambaro in Paris, the opus number indicating a publication date of around 1816. The theme is followed b...

This edition of 20 Studies or Exercises for the piano, Op. 30, is based on that published by Imbault in Paris in about 1800. The full original title is (in French) "Studies or Exercises for the pianof...

The fourteen pieces published here come from a small autograph album kept at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. They are almost certainly a selection from among the pieces composed by Chabrier a...

After a long period of silence, which he felt was necessary, Greif returned to composition just over three years before writing this Sonata in 1994, which was completed in just one month. It is theref...

For four-hands piano and of a duration of 15', Le Tombeau de Ravel is a commission from the Festival of Montfort- L'Amaury, for the celebration of Maurice Ravel's birth centenary on 23-25 May 1975. Ol...

Hélène de Montgeroult wrote a landmark in the history of the piano music literature: the Cours complet containing 114 studies and variations, one fugue and one fantaisie, and constituting a key link b...

Le Rêve du monde (The Dream of the World), a 25-minute piano piece in 4 movements, was written in May 1993 and created by Olivier Greif within the following months. In May 1993, Le Rêve du monde was d...