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). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical m ...

, 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 Gérard Lesne (; born 15 July 1956) is a French countertenor. He is also the founder and artistic director of the baroque music ensemble, Il Seminario Musicale. Life and career Gérard Lesne was born in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. He was originall ...

, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with

Lycourgos Angelopoulos Lykourgos Angelopoulos ( el, Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλος; 1941 – 18 May 2014) was a Greek chanter. He was professor at the School of Byzantine Chant at the Conservatory of Athens, the founder and director of the Greek Byzant ...

and are influenced by Orthodox music.Ensemble Organum
www.medieval.orgIvan Hewett (2011)

''Daily Telegraph''. 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 late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

, 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 Charlemagne, grandson of mayor Charles Martel and a descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippin ...

and

Mozarabic Mozarabic, also called Andalusi Romance, refers to the medieval Romance varieties spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in territories controlled by the Islamic Emirate of Córdoba and its successors. They were the common tongue for the majority of ...

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 114 ...

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. Several members of the Frenc ...

. 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 th ...

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 an independent record label which 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. Its Latin name ''ha ...

. * ''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 Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

: '' Missa Pange lingua'' (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 composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented ...

: ''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''; grc, Πραίνεστος, ''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 Pren ...

: '' Missa Viri Galilaei'' (1992) * '' Chant Cistercien'' (1992) * '' Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne'' (1993) * '' Messe de Saint Marcel'' (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 (german: Hildegard von Bingen; la, Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher ...

: ''Laudes de Sainte Ursule'' (1997) * '' Chants de l'église de Rome - Vêpres'' (1998) * ''Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi'':

Codex Calixtinus The (also ''Compostellus'') is the main witness for the 12th-century , or the Book of Saint James. It is a pseudepigraph attributed to Pope Callixtus II; its principal author or compilator is referred to as "Pseudo-Callixtus", often identified w ...

(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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