Adrien Rougier
Adrien Rougier | |
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Born | 23 June 1892 Vernaison, Rhône, France |
Died | 1 July 1984 Lyon, France | (aged 92)
Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Composer, organist |
Instrument(s) | Organ |
Adrien Rougier (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1993 was a French organist, organ builder, conductor and composer.
Life
Born in
On his return from the front, he went back to music and entered the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Maurice Sergent, Vincent d'Indy and especially Louis Vierne as teachers, whose latter's influence would be predominant in his compositions for organ. The latter also commissioned him to create his Triptych for organ Op. 58[2] with orchestra. In 1921, his symphonic poem Les Elfes won the prize of the musical composition of the Société des Grands Concerts, at the same time as a Sarabande by Pierre-Octave Ferroud[3] and the following year he became conductor of the Hector Berlioz Symphony Concerts in Grenoble.[4] For the 1927/1928 musical season, he did not forget the Lyon scene alongside Paul Le Flem, André Caplet and Jacques Ibert by premiering En marge de trois maîtres français.
But Rougier returned to his favourite instrument, the
For his 51 stops organ of Saint-Pothin's Church, he implemented his invention, a device for calling combinations called "Acribès".[9] One of these combiners had been installed on the grandstand organ of the primatial Saint-Jean de Lyon when it was reinstalled in 1935-1936.[10] This combiner is still in operation in the organ of the Saint-André church in Tarare[11] while another copy is located at the Musée suisse de l'orgue .[12]
A professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon , where Georges Aloy, Patrice Caire, Maurice Clerc, Paul Coueffë, Georges Guillard, Jean-Pierre Millioud, Jean-Luc Salique, Marcel Godard among others were his students[13] as well as Madeleine Jallifier,[14] Rougier was a tireless promoter of organ music in Lyon, which led him to create the Société des Amis de l'Orgue with Jean Bouvard, Norbert Dufourcq, Marcel Péhu and abbott François Boursier,[15] and to devote research to the electronic combiner and organ building.[16] His contribution to the restitution of the sounds of the organs of Johann Sebastian Bach led him to make both a biographical and technical synthesis of the works of the Leipziger Kantor. With regard to organ restoration, he called for restorations that respected as much as possible the original historical instrument.[17] In 1974 he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Alexandre Renard, bishop of Lyon.
He was the brother of astronomer and physicist Gilbert Rougier , and Octave Simon 's cousin.
Works
- Les Elfes, poème symphonique pour orchestre, 1921 (premiered by the Orchestre philharmonique de Grenoble, 19 April 1922)
- En marge de trois maîtres français, pour orchestre (premiered on 9 November 1928, salle Rameau à Lyon, by the orchestra of the Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by the author).
- Trois Esquisses pour l'Odyssée: Ulysse, Calypso, Les Jeux chez les Phéaciens, for orchestra (premiered March 1934, salle Rameau in Lyon, by the orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by Jean Witkowski).
- Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano (published at Jobert, Paris)
- Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano : La Maison du Matin, Le Petit Palémon, dedicated to Suzanne Balguerie and Les Constellations dedicated to her brother Gilbert Rougier, (published by Jobert, Paris, 1936)
- Prélude, extract of Suite Française, for piano, by the Members of the Luth (published at Béal, in Lyon)
- Elégie-lamento pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
- Arabesque pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
- Elevation en ré bémol majeur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
- Interlude en ut mineur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
- Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue, premiered in the presence of Alexandre Renard, archbishop of Lyon (published by Rubin, Lyon)
- Petites pièces pour orgue
- Berceuse pour violon et orgue
- Initiation à la facture d'orgue publication in Amis de l’orgue de Lyon - 1940/41 –
- Les Orgues de Jean-Sébastien Bach - Imprimerie Roudil Frères – Lyon
- J.-S. Bach, l'organiste et l'œuvre pour orgue by Adrien Rougier.[18]
Selected discography
- Berceuse pour violon et orgue, by Georges Guillard (choir organ) and Michel Dietz (violin), Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church in the Île Saint-Louis, Disque Orgues Nouvelles No 6, 2009.
- Toccata et fugue, by Georges Aloy, Lyon, Basilique de Fourvière, Disque Amis de l'orgue.
- Arabesque, by Patrice Caire, Lyon, chapelle des Chartreux, Lugduvox Records, 1980.
References
- ^ Société des Grands Concerts Home page
- ^ Louis Vierne : la vie et l’œuvre, by Bernard Gavoty, Buchet/Chastel, 1980
- ^ Le Ménestrel, Volume 83, page 445 (in French). Paris. 1921.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Editions Musicales Rubin".
- ^ "Adrien Rougier, illustrateur et défenseur des orgues de Lyon". Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ "Aspects de la musique baroque et classique à Lyon et en France: Lyon et la musique du XVIe au XXe siècle", Daniel Paquette, Presses universitaires de Lyon , 1989.
- ^ Jacques Renault (1994). "Le grand orgue de Saint-Pothin". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (in French).
- ^ Henry Prunières (1938). La Revue musicale, Volume 19 (in French). Paris: Éditions Richard-Masse.
- ^ Grande encyclopédie de Lyon et des communes du Rhône", volume 2, by André Pelletier, Horvath, 1980
- ISBN 978-2716507899.
- ^ "L'orgue Saint-André se refait une beauté". le-pays.fr (in French). 14 April 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ Jean-Jacques Gramm (2008). L'Acribès du Musée Suisse de l'Orgue (in French). Neuchâtel: La Tribune de l'Orgue. pp. 25–26.
- ^ "Tradition - JARDIN A LA FRANCAISE - Éditions à Cœur Joie". edacj.musicanet.org (in French). Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ "St Joseph : Hommage à Madeleine Jalliffier". orgues.free.fr. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ "Les Orgues de Lyon", Pierre-Marie Guéritey and Michelle Guéritey, Association régionale de diffusion et d'information musicales, 1992 - 452 pages
- ^ Guide de la musique d'orgue, under the direction of Gilles Cantagrel, Fayard, 2012
- ^ L'orgue classique français", Jean Fellot, Edisud, 1993
- ^ Les Orgues du Rhône, Yves Jaffrès, Éditions Compact, 1992
External links
- Hommage à Adrien Rougier
- Adrien Rougier
- (La Maison du Matin, extract from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano, played by Qi Xiaoxiao and Sim Hyun Min at the Conservatoire de Saint-Étienne
- Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue played by Georges Aloy and Arabesque performed by Philippe Quattroccolo playing the organ of Église du Saint-Nom de Jésus