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Jehan-Aristide Paul Alain (; 3 February 1911 – 20 June 1940) was a French
organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...
, 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 composing until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His compositional style was influenced by the musical language of the earlier
Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...
, as well as his interest in music, dance and philosophy of the far east. At the outbreak of the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, Alain became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army; he took part in the Battle of Saumur, in which he was killed. His younger brother was composer-organist-pianist-musicologist
Olivier Alain Olivier Georges Alain (3 August 1918 – 28 February 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer. Life Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, into a musical family. His father was the organist and composer Albe ...
and his younger sister was renowned organist
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 ...
who was also responsible for popularising his works.


Biography

Alain was born in
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Germanois'' or ''Saint-Ge ...
in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father,
Albert Alain Albert Paul Alain (1 March 1880 – 15 October 1971) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Clarisse-Alphonsine Fouquet (born 1859) and Paul François Alain (born 1851), he entered in adult ...
(1880–1971) was an organist, composer and amateur organ builder who had studied with
Alexandre Guilmant Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantor ...
and
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 ...
. His younger brother was the composer, organist and pianist
Olivier Alain Olivier Georges Alain (3 August 1918 – 28 February 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer. Life Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, into a musical family. His father was the organist and composer Albe ...
(1918–1994), and his youngest sister the organist
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 ...
(1926–2013). Jehan received his initial training in the piano from Augustin Pierson, the organist of Saint-Louis at Versailles, and in the organ from his father, who had built a four-manual instrument in the family sitting room.Woodstra, Chris et al.
All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music
', p. 12 (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005).
By the age of 11, Jehan was substituting at St. Germain-en-Laye. Between 1927 and 1939, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and achieved First Prize in Harmony under
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and First Prize in Fugue with
Georges Caussade Georges Paul Alphonse Emilien Caussade (20 November 1873 – 5 August 1936) was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator. Biography Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 as a teac ...
. He studied the organ with
Marcel Dupré Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré () (3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Biography Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular o ...
, under whose direction he took first prize for Organ and Improvisation in 1939. His studies in composition with
Paul Dukas Paul Abraham Dukas ( or ; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His b ...
and
Jean Roger-Ducasse Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc ( Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Biography Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was t ...
won him the ''Prix des amis de l'orgue'' in 1936 for his ''Suite for Organ, Op. 48: Introduction, Variations, Scherzo and Choral''. He was appointed organist of Eglise Saint-Nicolas de Maisons-Laffitte in Paris in 1935, and remained there for four years. He also played regularly at the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth synagogue. The only known recording of his playing—a six-minute improvisation—was made in 1938 at that synagogue. His short career as a composer began in 1929, when Alain was 18, and lasted until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His music was influenced not only by the musical language of the earlier
Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...
and his own contemporary
Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...
(seen in ''Le jardin suspendu'', 1934), but also by an interest in the music, dance and philosophies of the far east (acquired at the Exposition coloniale internationale of 1931 and seen in ''Deux danses à Agni Yavishta'', 1932, and ''Deuxième fantaisie'', 1936), a renaissance of baroque music (seen in ''Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin'', 1937), and in jazz (seen in ''Trois danses'' of 1939). Alain described ''Le jardin suspendu'' ("The Hanging Garden") as a portrayal of "the ideal, perpetual pursuit and escape of the artist, an inaccessible and inviolable refuge". He wrote choral music, including a
Requiem Mass A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...
,
chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
, songs and three volumes of piano music. But it is his organ music for which he is best known. His most famous work is ''Litanies'', composed in 1937. That work is prefaced with the text: "Quand l’âme chrétienne ne trouve plus de mots nouveaux dans la détresse pour implorer la miséricorde de Dieu, elle répète sans cesse la même invocation avec une foi véhémente. La raison atteint sa limite. Seule, la foi poursuit son ascension." ("When the Christian soul no longer finds new words in its distress to implore God's mercy, it repeats incessantly the same invocation with a vehement faith. Reason has reached its limits. Alone, faith pursues its ascension"). ''Deuils'' ("mourning"), the second of the ''Trois danses'', is dedicated to Odile (Alain's deceased sister) as a "Funeral Dance to an Heroic Memory". Always interested in mechanics, Alain was a skilled motorcyclist and became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army. On 20 June 1940, he was assigned to reconnoitre the German advance on the eastern side of
Saumur Saumur () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. The town is located between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and is surrounded by the vineyards of Saumur itself, Chinon, Bourgueil, Coteaux du Layon, etc.. Saumur statio ...
, and encountered a group of German soldiers at Le Petit-Puy. Coming around a curve, and hearing the approaching tread of the Germans, he abandoned his motorcycle and engaged the adversary. After having shot with his machine-gun several infantry soldiers who had ordered him to surrender, he fell mortally wounded. He was posthumously awarded the
Croix de Guerre The ''Croix de Guerre'' (, ''Cross of War'') is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was first awa ...
for his bravery, and was provisionally buried at the place where he had died. He left behind his wife, Madeleine Payan whom he had married in 1935, his three children Denis, Agnès, and Lise, and a body of compositions viewed by many to have been amongst the most original of the 20th century.
Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...
's ''Les citations'' contains a
quotation A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by ...
from Jehan Alain's music.
Maurice Duruflé Maurice Gustave Duruflé (; 11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. Life and career Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He became a chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School fro ...
wrote a musical tribute to Jehan Alain with his ''Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'A.L.A.I.N'', Op. 7 for organ.


Publication

Helga Schauerte-Maubouet Helga Schauerte-Maubouet (born 8 Mars, 1957, Lennestadt) is a German-French organist, writer and editor of music. Schauerte has recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach (in process), portraits of Butts ...
: ''Jehan Alain, Mourir à trente ans'', Sampzon, Delatour France, 2020; translated into English by Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Connie Glessner: ''Jehan Alain, Understanding His Musical Genius'', Sampzon, Delatour France, 2022.


Chronological catalogue

The JA Catalogue, drawn by Marie-Claire Alain in 2001, uses partially numbers which Jehan Alain had formerly used to better classify his manuscripts.Helga Schauerte-Maubouet, "Jehan Alain, Understanding His Musical Genius", Sampzon, Delatour France, 2022, pp. 161-163. As the numbering of this catalogue is arbitrary, it is not a Catalogue of his works and the numbers shouldn't be used to designate the work titles. In actual fact, during his lifetime, Jehan Alain had used some opus numbers. *1929 – 18 years old – 4 opus :JA 021 – Togo, pour piano
une 1929 Une is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Eastern Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located at an altitude of at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Chipaque in the no ...
:JA 007 bis – Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent, pour orgue ugust 1929:JA 003 – Etude sur un thème de quatre notes, pour piano ovember 1929:JA 008 – Chanson triste, pour piano
929 Year 929 ( CMXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * January 16 – Emir Abd-al-Rahman III of Córdoba proclaims himself caliph and create ...
*1930 – 19 years old – 14 opus :JA 009 – Ballade en mode phrygien, pour orgue ou piano anuary 1930:JA 002 – Thème et cinq variations, pour piano ebruary 1930:JA 014 – Lamento, pour orgue ebruary 1930:JA 001 – Quarante variations, pour piano
pril 1930 Bar Kham ( km, បរខាំ) is a commune in Ou Ya Dav District in northeast Cambodia. It contains six villages and has a population of 1,392. In the 2007 commune council elections, three of the commune's five seats went to the Cambodian Peop ...
:JA 017 – Des nuages gris, pour deux pianos
une 1930 Une is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Eastern Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre is located at an altitude of at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. The municipality borders Chipaque in the no ...
:JA 004 – Ecce ancilla Domini, pour piano ugust 1930:JA 029 – Postlude pour l'Office de Complies, pour orgue ugust 1930:JA 130 – Adagio, pour piano 2 August 1930:JA 005 – Seigneur, donne-nous la paix éternelle (Choral), pour piano ctober 1930:JA 007 – Etude de sonorité sur une double pédale, pour piano ctober 1930:JA 010 – Etude sur les doubles notes, pour piano ctober 1930:JA 020 – Pour le défrichage, pour piano ecember 1930:JA 131 – Variations sur un thème donné de
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
, pour quatre voix ecember 1930:JA 131A – Variations sur un chant donné de Rimsky-Korsakov, pour orgue ecember 1930:JA 131B – Variations sur un thème donné de Rimsky-Korsakov, pour quatuor à cordes ecember 1930:JA 129 – Lettre à son amie Lola pour la consoler d'avoir attrapé la grippe, pour piano 930 *1931 – 20 years old – 12 opus :JA 012 – Petite rhapsodie, pour piano ebruary 1931:JA 016 – Mélodie-sandwich, pour piano 3 February 1931:JA 006 – Verset-Choral, pour orgue ou piano arch 1931:JA 011 – Lumière qui tombe d'un vasistas, pour piano
pril 1931 Bar Kham ( km, បរខាំ) is a commune in Ou Ya Dav District in northeast Cambodia. It contains six villages and has a population of 1,392. In the 2007 commune council elections, three of the commune's five seats went to the Cambodian Peopl ...
:JA 015 – Histoire sur un tapis, entre des murs blancs, pour piano
ay 1931 Ay, AY or variants, may refer to: People * Ay (pharaoh), a pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty * Merneferre Ay, a pharaoh of the 13th Egyptian dynasty * A.Y. (musician) (born 1981), a Tanzanian "bongo flava" artist * A.Y, stage name of Ayo Makun ...
:JA 018 – Canons à sept, pour deux pianos
ay 1931 Ay, AY or variants, may refer to: People * Ay (pharaoh), a pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty * Merneferre Ay, a pharaoh of the 13th Egyptian dynasty * A.Y. (musician) (born 1981), a Tanzanian "bongo flava" artist * A.Y, stage name of Ayo Makun ...
:JA 013 – Heureusement, la bonne fée sa marraine..., pour piano 0 August 1931:JA 019 – Nocturne, soir du 22 août 31, pour piano 2 August 1931:JA 022 – En dévissant mes chaussettes, pour piano eptember 1931:JA 023 – 26 septembre 1931, pour piano
6 September 1931 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
:JA 024 – Dans le rêve laissé par la
Ballade des pendus The ''Ballade des pendus'', literally "ballad of the hanged", also known as ''Epitaphe Villon'' or ''Frères humains'', is the best-known poem by François Villon. It is commonly acknowledged, although not clearly established, that Villon wrote it ...
de
François Villon François Villon (Modern French: , ; – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these ex ...
, pour piano October 1931:JA 143 – Pièces d'après François Campion, pour orgue
931 Year 931 ( CMXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Hugh of Provence, king of Italy, cedes Lower Burgundy to Rudolph II, in re ...
*1932 – 21 years old – 14 opus :JA 025 – Choral et variations – Mythologies japonaises, pour piano
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 027 – Variations sur Lucis Creator, pour orgue anuary 1932:JA 028 – Fugue en mode de fa, pour orgue ou piano
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 035 – O quam suavis est, pour baryton
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 036 – Le rosier de Mme Husson, pour piano arch 1932:JA 037 – Chant donné, pour orgue ou piano
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 061 – Canon, pour piano et harmonium
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 079 – Climat, pour orgue arch 1932:JA 030 – Trois minutes : Un cercle d'argent, pour piano ou orgue
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 031 – Trois minutes : Romance, pour piano ou orgue
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 032 – Trois minutes : Grave, pour piano ou orgue ugust 1932:JA 034 – Cantique en mode phrygien, pour quatre voix mixtes eptembre 1932:JA 077 – Première danse à Agni Yavishta, pour orgue
3 October 1932 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
:JA 078 – Deuxième danse à Agni Yavishta, pour orgue
3 October 1932 3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
:JA 033 – Petite pièce, pour orgue ecember 1932:JA 038 – Complainte à la mode ancienne, pour orgue
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 132 – Chant nuptial, pour baryton et orgue
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
:JA 132A – Chant nuptial, pour baryton, basse, violoncelle et orgue
932 Year 932 (Roman numerals, CMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Summer – Alberic II of Spoleto, Alberic II leads an uprising at Rome ag ...
*1933 – 22 years old – 6 opus :JA 026 – Variations chorales sur Sacris solemniis, pour cinq voix mixtes et orgue anuary 1933:JA 064 – Premier Prélude profane (Wieder an), pour orgue ou piano ebruary 1933:JA 064A – Adagio en quintette, pour quintette à cordes 933:JA 065 – Deuxième Prélude profane (Und jetzt), pour orgue ou piano March 1933:JA 039 – Chanson à bouche fermée, pour quatre voix mixtes 933:JA 133 – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour quatre voix 933:JA 133A – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour orgue 933:JA 133B – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour quatuor à cordes 933:JA 072 – Première Fantaisie, pour orgue 933:JA 80A – Prélude, pour quintette à cordes 933 *1934 – 23 years old – 5 opus :JA 134 – Choral cistercien pour une Élévation, pour orgue pril 1934:JA 066 – Intermezzo, pour deux pianos et basson une 1934:JA 066 bis – Intermezzo, pour orgue
arch 1935 An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it. Arches may be synonymous with vaul ...
:JA 074 – Trois mouvements : Allegretto con grazia, pour flûte et piano ugust 1934:JA 074A – Intermède, pour violoncelle et piano ugust 1934:JA 074B – Trois mouvements, pour flûte et piano ou violon et piano
934 Year 934 ( CMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring and Summer – The Hungarians make an alliance with the Pecheneg ...
:JA 073 – Trois mouvements : Andante, pour flûte et piano anuary 1935:JA 073A – Trois mouvements : Allegro vivace, pour flûte et piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 074C – Trois mouvements, pour flûte et orgue
975 Year 975 ( CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor John I raids Mesopotamia and invades Syria, using ...
:JA 071 – Le jardin suspendu, pour orgue ctober 1934:JA 069 – Suite pour orgue : Introduction et variations, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 069A – Andante con variazioni, pour quintette à cordes
934 Year 934 ( CMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring and Summer – The Hungarians make an alliance with the Pecheneg ...
:JA 070 – Suite pour orgue : Scherzo, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 070A – Scherzo, pour quintette à cordes
934 Year 934 ( CMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Spring and Summer – The Hungarians make an alliance with the Pecheneg ...
:JA 082 – Suite pour orgue : Choral, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
*1935 – 24 years old – 13 opus :JA 081 – Andante, pour piano anuary 1935:JA 081 bis – Largo assai, ma molto rubato, pour violoncelle et piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 047 – Fantaisie pour chour à bouche fermée, pour trois voix mixtes August 1935:JA 057 – Fugue, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 057A – Fugue, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 058 – Laisse les nuages blancs, pour soprano ou ténor
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 060 – Foire, pour une voix et piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 062 – De Jules Lemaître, pour orgue ou piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 063 – Fantasmagorie, pour orgue ou piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 067 – Choral dorien, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 068 – Choral phrygien, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 075 – Prélude, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 076 – Nocturne, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 080 – Suite monodique : Animato, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 089 – Suite monodique : Adagio, molto rubato, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 89 bis – Andante, pour orgue
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 116 – Suite monodique : Vivace, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 116A – Vivace, pour harpe :JA 087 – Prélude, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
:JA 087A – Prélude et fugue, pour piano
935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper ...
*1936 – 25 years old – 4 opus :JA 086 – Berceuse, pour piano
7 avril 1936 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, ...
:JA 088 – Chanson tirée du "chat-qui-s'en-va-tout-seul", pour soprano
936 Year 936 ( CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 19 – At Laon, Louis IV, the 14-year old son of the late King Charles the Simp ...
:JA 091 – Tarass Boulba, pour piano ctober 1936:JA 117 – Deuxième Fantaisie, pour orgue
936 Year 936 ( CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * June 19 – At Laon, Louis IV, the 14-year old son of the late King Charles the Simp ...
*1937 – 26 years old – 13 opus :JA 119 – Litanies, pour orgue ugust 1937:JA 119A – Litanies, pour deux pianos, transcribed by Olivier Alain :JA 084 – Quand Marion..., pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 085 – Nous n'irons plus au bois..., pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 090 – Complainte de Jean Renaud, pour quatre voix mixtes
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 092 – Final pour une sonatine facile, pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 093 – Suite facile : Barcarolle, pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 094 – Invention à trois voix, pour flûte, hautbois et clarinette
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 094A – Invention à trois voix, pour flûte et orgue
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 095 – Vocalise dorienne, pour soprano et orgue arch 1937:JA 095A – Vocalise dorienne – Ave Maria, pour soprano et orgue
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 098 – O salutaris, a cappella, pour deux voix égales
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 099 – Idée pour improviser sur le Christe eleison, pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 100 – Idée pour improviser sur le deuxième Amen, pour piano
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 118 – Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin, pour orgue
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 120 – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orchestre
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
:JA 120D – Sarabande, pour orgue, quintette à cordes et timbales 938:JA 120 bis – Danse funèbre pour honorer une mémoire héroïque, pour orgue 938:JA 120A – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orgue
940 Year 940 ( CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * The tribe of the Polans begins the construction of the following fortified settlements (Gi ...
:JA 120C – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour deux pianos
944 Year 944 (Roman numerals, CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * Arab–Byzantine wars, Arab–Byzantine War: Byzantine forces are de ...
:JA 120B – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orchestre
945 Year 945 ( CMXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * January 27 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown barel ...
*1938 – 27 years old – 21 opus :JA 122 – Tantum ergo, pour deux voix inégales (sic) et orgue 8 January 1938:JA 136 –
Messe modale en septuor (Modal mass for septet), JA 136, is a modal mass for a septet by Jehan Alain completed in 1938. Inspired by a friend who was a flutist, he composed the setting of the Latin Mass ordinary for soprano, alto, flute and string quartet or orga ...
, pour soprano, alto, flûte et quatuor à cordes ou orgue August 1938:JA 135 – Monodie, pour orgue ou piano September 1938:JA 135A – Monodie, pour flûte 938:JA 138 – Aria, pour orgue ovember 1938:JA 138A – Aria, pour flûte et orgue 938:JA 083 – O salutaris, dit de Dugay, pour quatre voix mixtes 938:JA 096 – Faux-Bourdon pour le Laudate du VIème ton, pour trois voix égales 938:JA 097 – Le petit Jésus s'en va-t-à l'école, pour piano 938:JA 101 – Noël nouvelet, pour trois voix mixtes 938:JA 101 A – Noël nouvelet, pour orgue :JA 112 – Que j'aime ce divin Enfant, pour trois voix mixtes 938:JA 112A – Que j'aime ce divin Enfant, pour deux voix égales et orgue 938:JA 113 – D'où vient qu'en cette nuitée..., pour deux voix égales et orgue 938:JA 113A – D'où vient qu'en cette nuitée..., pour quatre voix mixtes 990:JA 114 – Le Père Noël passera-t-il ?, pour une voix 938:JA 115 – Transcription du Récit de Nazard de Clérambault, pour flûte et orgue 938:JA 121 – Marche de Saint Nicolas, pour deux clairons, tambour et orgue 938:JA 121A – Marche des Horaces et des Curiaces, pour deux clairons, tambour et orgue 938:JA 124 – Messe grégorienne de mariage, pour une voix et quatuor à cordes 938:JA 125 – Messe de Requiem, pour quatre voix mixtes 938:JA 126 – Fragment de la cantate de
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Erschallet, ihr Lieder, pour deux trompettes et orgue 938:JA 127 – Allegro du Concerto en sol majeur (sic) de
Händel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training i ...
, pour deux trompettes et orgue 938:JA 128 – Concerto en si bémol majeur de
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, pour deux trompettes et orgue 938:JA 137 – Prière pour nous autres charnels, pour ténor, basse et orgue 938:JA 137 A – Prière pour nous autres charnels, pour orchestre [orchestrated by
Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...
, 1946] :JA 139 – L'année liturgique israëlite, pour orgue 938:JA 140 – Tantum ergo, pour soprano, baryton et orgue 938 *1939 – 28 years old – 3 opus :JA 123 – Tu es Petrus, pour trois voix mixtes 939:JA 141 – Salve, virilis pectoris, pour soprano, ténor et orgue 939:JA 142 – O salutaris, pour soprano et orgue 939 *Undated – 17 opus :JA 040 – Une scie, pour piano :JA 041 – Il pleuvra toute la journée, pour piano :JA 042 – Sur le mode ré, mi, fa..., pour piano :JA 043 – Adagio, pour violoncelle et piano :JA 044 – Amen, pour piano :JA 045 – Un très vieux motif, pour piano :JA 046 – Post-scriptum, pour deux pianos :JA 048 – Théorie, pour piano :JA 049 – Le gai liseron, pour piano :JA 050 – Sonata, pour piano :JA 051 – Mephisto, pour piano :JA 052 – La peste, pour piano :JA 053 – Exposition :JA 054 – Sujet :JA 055 – Comme quoi les projets les plus belliqueux..., pour piano :JA 056 – Le bon Roi Dagobert, pour piano :JA 059 – Histoire d'un homme qui jouait de la trompette dans la forêt vierge, pour piano


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Archived page of Jehan Alain's website
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