Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue is an eight-volume collection edited by abbot
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert (; 6 May 1754 in Montignac, Périgord – 4 May 1824 in Paris) was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his ''Pensées'' (''Thoughts''), which were published posthumously.
Biography
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; the first three volumes appeared in 1912. The first six volumes are "for organ or harmonium", so the pieces in them do not include a mandatory pedal part.
Preface
''L'Anthologie des Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue'' offers church musicians and all lovers of good music a careful selection of pieces that have not so far been published elsewhere. These pieces represent all styles and schools of composition, and have been drawn from all countries. They are in general not too demanding, and can be performed on a standard
harmonium
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just as well as on the most elaborate instrument.
The Anthology is thus a veritable encyclopædia of modern writing for the organ, gaining an exceptional interest from offering a wide range of styles and from its international character.
I am delighted to take this occasion of publicly acknowledging the gratitude I owe to the many and illustrious composers who, in response to my modest request for help, chose to write pieces specially for this Collection. It is this range of remarkable compositions that makes the Anthology worthy of a special place in the library of any organist.
It is with particular pleasure that I can offer my gratitude and respect to mm.
Ch.-M. Widor, F. de la Tombelle and Alphonse Mailly, who have graciously allowed me to dedicate a volume to each of them. Patronage at this level seems to me already a guarantee of success, and also the most authoritative possible confirmation of the value of the pieces included in the Anthology.
While I was preparing this publication, m. Henry Eymieu was unstintingly generous with advice born of experience and with kindly encouragement; he also contributed to the biographical notes, giving them a personal and critical touch I much appreciate. I hope he may be pleased to accept my warmest thanks for his contribution!
Though most of the composers represented in the Anthology are already well-known, it seemed to me useful to provide a few lines of biographical and bibliographical information for each of them. If these lines are unavoidably brief and incomplete, the pieces which these Modern Masters of the Organ have contributed will speak for their composers.
Solemnity of liturgy and dignified church music! These matters are rightly, and all the more so since the publication of the
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from His Holiness
Pius X
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, of great concern to all who have received the noble task of praising the name of the Lord and of helping others do so. May this work I have undertaken for the sake of Religion and of Art add yet more to the splendour and beauty of our liturgical celebrations!
Such is the desire of the Author: to see this desire realised would be the best possible reward for my modest labours!
l'abbé Jos. Joubert
:''Preface to Volume I'', translation by Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
Composers in ''École française, volume I''
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Andlauer, Louis
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Barié, Augustin
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Bazelaire, Paul
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Bentz, Jules
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Blin, René
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Bonnal, Ermend Joseph
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Boucher, Roger
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Boulanger, Nadia
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Boulnois, Joseph
* Canton, Léon
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Cellier, Alexandre Eugène
* Colinet, Arthur
* Collin, Charles
* Collin, Charles Augustin
* Combes, Paul
* Courtonne, Marcel
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Dallier, Henri
* Darros, Noël
* Debat-Ponson, Georges
* Decq, Adhémar
* Delune, Louis
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Delvincourt, Claude
* Dodement, Arthur
* Doney, Camille
* Dumas, Louis
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Dupré, Marcel
* Eymieu, Henry
* Fauchey, Paul
* Fleuret, Daniel
* Ganaye, Jean-Baptiste
* Garbet, Gabriel
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Gastoué, Amédée
* George, Max
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Gigout, Eugène
* Gouard, Henri
* Grigi, Constant Raoul
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Grosjean, Ernest
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Guilmant, Alexandre
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Guiraud, Georges
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Huré, Jean
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Indy, Vincent d'
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Jacob, Georges
* Jacquemin, Louis
* Jemain, Joseph
* Kunc, Aloys
* Lacroix, Eugène
* Landais, Eugène
Composers in ''École française, volume II''
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Lefebvre, Charles
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Le Guennant, Auguste
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Letocart, Henri
* Libert, Henri
* Marichelle, Alfred
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Marty, Adolphe
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Massenet, Jules
* Messerer, Henri
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Mulet, Henri
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Nibelle, Henri
* Paraire, Saturnin
* Perruchot, Louis-Lazare
* Pessard, Émile
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Philip, Achille
* Pierné, Paul
* Pineau, Charles
* Planchet, Dominique-Charles
* Pollet, Charles-Marie
* Potiron, Henri
* Prestat, Marie
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Quef, Charles
* Raffat de Bailhac, Amédée-Marie
* Ranse, Marc de
* Ratez, Émile
* Raugel, Félix Alphonse
* Renard, Georges-François
* Renaud, Albert
* Renoux, André
* Reuchsel, Amédée
* Reuchsel, Léon
* Reuchsel, Maurice
* Rouher, Marcel
* Rozan, Blanche
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Saint-Réquier, Léon de
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Schmitt, Alphonse
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Schmitt, Florent
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Selva, Blanche
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Sérieyx, Auguste
* Vadon, Jean
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Vallombrosa, Amédée de
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Vidal, Paul
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Vierne, Louis
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Vierne, René
* Vivet, Armand
* Walter, Désiré
References
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Compositions for organ