Jacques Berthier
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Jacques Berthier (27 June 1923 – 27 June 1994) was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé.
Biography
Berthier was born in
In 1955 Berthier was first asked to compose music for the Taizé Community, which was then just a
He died at his home in Paris in 1994, and requested that none of his own music be used in his funeral at
Music
In more than twenty years, Berthier left an important corpus (232 songs in 20 different languages) in wide use today by other communities and around the world. He is also the author of Masses for organ, a cantata in the form of the cross and a cantata for Saint Cecilia.
Taizé songs
The current[when?] edition of the song booklet used by the Taizé Community contains 71 songs written by Jacques Berthier.
- 1 : Dans nos obscurités
- 2 : Wait for the Lord
- 3 : Bleibet hier
- 5 : Bless the Lord
- 7 : Notre âme attend
- 8 : C’est toi ma lampe
- 9 : Jésus le Christ
- 10 : Laudate Dominum
- 11 : Oculi nostri
- 12 : De noche
- 13 : Veni Creator (litanie)
- 14 : Tui amoris
- 15 : Ubi caritas
- 16 : Bénissez le Seigneur
- 17 : El Senyor
- 18 : Confitemini Domino
- 19 : Magnificat (canon)
- 20 : Adoramus te Christe
- 21 : Christe Salvator
- 22 : Veni Creator (canon)
- 23 : Laudate omnes gentes
- 24 : Singt dem Herrn
- 25 : Gloria... et in terra pax
- 26 : La ténèbre
- 29 : Ostende nobis
- 32 : Mon âme se repose
- 33 : Nunc dimittis
- 34 : Cantate Domino (canon)
- 35 : Bonum est confidere
- 36 : Spiritus Jesu Christi
- 37 : Jesus, remember me
- 38 : Psallite Deo
- 40 : Surrexit Christus
- 41 : Magnificat (choral)
- 43 : Veni Lumen (choral)
- 44 : Adoramus te O Christe
- 45 : Christus resurrexit
- 46 : In te confido
- 47 : Per crucem / Vater unser
- 48 : Crucem tuam
- 49 : Surrexit Dominus vere
- 50 : Nada te turbe
- 52 : Veni Sancte Spiritus
- 53 : Dona la pace Signore
- 54 : Toi, tu nous aimes
- 55 : Da pacem cordium
- 56 : Sanctum nomen Domini
- 57 : Vieni Spirito creatore
- 58 : Misericordias Domini
- 60 : O Christe Domine Jesu
- 61 : Jubilate Coeli
- 63 : Benedictus (canon)
- 65 : Dona nobis pacem
- 68 : Alleluia 4
- 69 : Alleluia 7
- 70 : Alleluia 8
- 71 : Alleluia 10
- 72 : Alleluia 11
- 79 : Kyrie eleison 1
- 80 : Kyrie eleison 5
- 81 : Kyrie eleison 6
- 82 : Kyrie eleison 8
- 83 : Kyrie eleison 9
- 84 : Kyrie eleison 10
- 85 : Kyrie eleison 12
- 86 : Kyrie eleison 13
- 91 : Veni Lumen cordium I
- 92 : Veni Lumen cordium II
- 117 : Nebojte se
- 141 : Bleib mit deiner Gnade
- 143 : Eat this bread / Jesus Christ, bread of life
External links
- Jacques Berthier at GIA Publications
- The Taizé Composers (in German)
- Prayer and Song at Taizé
- Alleluia CD with track samples. Live at St. Paul's Cathedral, London (1987)
- Jubilate CD with track samples. Using twenty languages, this recording reflects what Taizé is today.
- Wait for the Lord CD with track samples. This is the first American recording of the music of Taizé.