Helga Schauerte-Maubouet (born 8 Mars, 1957,

Lennestadt Lennestadt (occasionally also ''die Lennestadt'') lies in the Sauerland in southeast North Rhine-Westphalia and is a community in Olpe district. It is the district's most populous municipality. Lennestadt itself is not an actual town but a commun ...

) is a German-French organist, writer and editor of music. Schauerte has recorded the complete organ works of

Jehan Alain Jehan-Aristide Paul Alain (; 3 February 1911 – 20 June 1940) was a French organist, composer, and soldier. Born into a family of musicians, he learned the organ from his father and a host of other teachers, becoming a composer at 18, and compo ...

, Dietrich Buxtehude, and

J. S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

(in process), portraits of Buttstett, Corrette,

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, Boëllmann, Dubois and Langlais, comprising some thirty recordings). She works as a performing artist in Europe and throughout the USA, and is Organist of the German Lutheran Church in Paris, and teaches at the Paris Conservatory Nadia et Lili Boulanger. She is also lecturer and jury member for international organ competitions. Her career has been influenced by German and French music. In 2006 she founded a Bach-organ-academy in Pontaumur (Auvergne, France). She wrote the first book in German on Jehan Alain’s music, and has acquired some forty of this composer’s musical autographs. She has been engaged by Bärenreiter to contribute to the new edition of MGG, to write on French organ music subjects in the Handbuch Orgelmusik, and to publish scholarly-critical editions of the complete organ works of

Léon Boëllmann Léon Boëllmann (; 25 September 1862 – 11 October 1897) was a French composer, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is '' Suite gothique'' (1895), which is a staple of the organ repertoire, especially i ...

Théodore Dubois Clément François Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher. After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Dubois won France's premier musical prize, the Prix de Rome in 1861. He bec ...

Louis Vierne Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. As the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, he focused on organ music, including six organ symphonies and a '' Messe solennelle ...

and

as well as of vocal music of

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...

. She has also composed French Noël and German carol-settings for other instruments and organ published by Merseburger-Verlag. Schauerte made her first public appearance at the age of 10. At 13 she became organist in Lennestadt. A disciple of Viktor Lukas and

Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the world ...

she culminated her studies respectively in Cologne, with degrees in music, pedagogy and philosophy, and in Paris, with the Premier Prix. Jean Langlais entrusted her with the first performance of several of his works, of which Miniature II is dedicated to her. In 1987 she received the cultural prize of Olpe, Germany. Since 1990 her biography has been included in the International Who’s Who in Music, and she has been selected to figure in 2000 Outstanding Musicians of the 20th Century. She was awarded the

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

and the French Cultural Minister awarded her the distinction of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.

Discography

Complete Organ Works *

: ''2 volumes'' (Motette, 11311 /11301) 1990, * Dietrich Buxtehude : ''5 volumes, ''Syrius (SYR 141.347/348/359/366/371), 2000-2002'', *

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

: (under way) (Syrius, 12 volumes published in 2018), Portraits * Die Passauer Domorgel : Les plus grandes orgues d'église du monde St. Stephen's Cathedral, Passau (Syrius,141310) 1995, * Max Reger : œuvre d'orgue pour le temps de Noël (Syrius,141320) 1997, *

Johann Heinrich Buttstett Johann Heinrich Buttstett (also ''Buttstedt'', ''Buttstädt'') (25 April 1666 – December 1, 1727) was a German Baroque organist and composer. Although he was Johann Pachelbel's most important pupil and one of the last major exponents of the sou ...

(Syrius,141334) 1998, * Jean Langlais (Ambiente, ACD 9801) 1998, *

(Syrius, 141374) 2003, *

(Syrius, 141382) 2004, *

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (19 December 1676 – 26 October 1749) was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born, and died, in Paris. Biography Clérambault came from a musical family (his father and two of his sons ...

, Nicolas Séjan,

Jean-François Dandrieu Jean-François Dandrieu, also spelled D'Andrieu (c. 168217 January 1738) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. Biography He was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave hi ...

, at the organ of

Saint-Calais Saint-Calais () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. Prior to the French Revolution it was known for its Benedictine abbey named after the Anisola stream (modern Aniole, a tributary of ...

(Sarthe) (Syrius, 141396) 2005, *

Michel Corrette Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books. Life Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Little is known of ...

, André Raison,

Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier (31 July 1766 – 7 September 1834) was a French organist and composer.. Biography Born in Lyon, Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier succeeded his father Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier at the pipe orga ...

, Louis Marchand, Orgue historique de

La Flèche La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...

(

Sarthe Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...

) (Syrius, 141408) 2006, *

''and his time''. Historical Organs in the district of Olpe, * Organum Antiquum: Earliest Organ Music until

(Syrius, 141459) 2012,

Critical editions

Complete Organ Works Bärenreiter * 2002 - 2004

, 4 Volumes (BA 8424/8425/8462/8463/8464/8465) * 2005 - 2007

, 6 Volumes (BA 8468 to BA 8471, BA 9208/9209) * 2008 - 2013

, 10 Volumes (BA 9221 to BA 9238) * 2011

, 3 Volumes (BA 8428 to BA 8430) Piano Bärenreiter * 2008

, Complete Piano Works, Vol III (BA 9613) Choir and Orchestra Bärenreiter * 2004

, Te Deum H.146, 5th edition in 2018 (BA 7593) * 2004

, Messe de Minuit H.9 (BA 7592) * 2005

, Te Deum H.148(BA 7591) * 2020 Gabriel Fauré, Œuvres complètes, Série I, vol. 4: Musique vocale religieuse pour voix, orgue et instruments (BA 9478-01)

Publications

* ''Jehan Alain, Mourir à trente ans'', Delatour France, Sampzon 2020, translated into English by Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Connie Glessner: ''Jehan Alain, Understanding His Musical Genius'', Delatour France, Sampzon, 2022

External links

* (fr
Helga Schauerte Website
* (en

* (fr
Eglise évangélique allemande
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Conversation avec Helga Schauerte-Maubouet
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schauerte-Maubouet, Helga 1957 births Living people French classical organists Women organists German classical organists French people of German descent People from Lennestadt Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 21st-century organists 21st-century French women musicians