Ernest Grosjean (18 December 1844 – 28 December 1936) was a French

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and composer.

Biography

Born in

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), Ernest Grosjean was the nephew and pupil of Jean-Romary Grosjean, founder and director of the ''Journal des organistes''. In addition to his uncle, he had successively Henri Hess,

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and Alexis Chauvet as masters of piano, organ, harmony,

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and fugue. He made his debut as organist in the cathedral of

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(Gard) in 1864, before competing for the position of organist, and later of maître de chapelle of the

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, that he held from 1868 until 1935, even though the Jacquot-Jeanpierre organ of

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(Vosges), built in 1898, was dismantled during the First World War to preserve it. The instrument was rebuilt and inaugurated on 25 March 1935 jointly by the titular master

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and abbot

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who succeeded him in June of the same year. Grosjean was the maternal grandfather of Élisabeth Brasseur, a

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who founded and directed in

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the from 1920 to her death in 1972. Grosjean died in

at the age of 92 on 28 December 1936.

Publications

Grosjean wrote teaching works including a harmony course, which earned him the approval of several eminent composers; a quantity of works for the organ, ''30 Verse'', ''82 Pieces'', etc.; works for voices, piano and various instruments. * ''Soixante-dix pièces faciles'' for organ (reprint Musica Rinata, 2007). * ''Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium'' (reprint Armelin Musica, 2007). * ''Noël d'alsace et de Lorraine''. * ''Les anges dans nos campagnes'', variations for organ. * ''Offertoire O filii et filiæ'' - pour le temps pascal. * ''Marche nuptiale'', in the ''Journal des Organistes'', reprinted by abbott Delépine in the ''Échos Jubilaires des Maîtres de l’Orgue'' (v. 1908). * ''Aria cantabile'' for organ, in the ''Journal des Organistes'' (1880). * ''Memento'' for organ, ed. Combre. In the séries ''Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue'' (1912) by abbot

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: * ''Offertoire bref'' or ''Communion'' * ''Prélude'' * ''Méthode pour l'accompagnement du chant grégorien'',

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: L.-J. Biton (1917).

Sources

* Biographical notes published in Joseph Joubert, ''

Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue is an eight-volume collection edited by abbot Joseph Joubert published by Éditions Maurice Senart; the first three volumes appeared in 1912. The first six volumes are "for organ or harmonium", so the pieces in th ...

'', volume I, Édition Maurice Senart and Cie, 1912, .

External links

IMSLP
Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium.
Rochester University
''Méthode pour l'accompagnement du chant grégorien'' (1917). * ''Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique''. Publiée sous la direction de

François-Joseph Fétis François-Joseph Fétis (; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the ''Biographie univer ...

et A. Pougin, (1878)

Library of Congress Authority File.

Notes sur Romary Grosjean.

''Le chanoine Pierre Camonin, doyen des organistes français, fête ses 100 ans !'' par Denis Havard de La Montagne.
YouTube
''Cantabile''.
Ernest Grosjean, organiste
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