French Organ Music from the Golden Age Vol. 8: Gaspard Corrette & Jean François Dandrieu

Featuring

David Ponsford
Gaspard Corrette
Jean-François Dandrieu

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Composer Biography

Gaspard Corrette, whose Messe du 8e ton is featured, was born in Rouen and later settled in Paris, but all traces of him vanish after he was apprenticed to a dancing master.

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Andreas Silbermann, the organ builder, trained in Paris under François Thierry, the 'facteur d'orgues du roi' who reconstructed the Notre-Dame Cathedral organ.

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The organ used for this recording, built by Andreas Silbermann in 1709, is considered a landmark in the introduction of the French style of organ-building in Alsace.

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The Marmoutier organ is almost exactly contemporary with Gaspard Corrette's organ mass, published in 1703, and can faithfully express all the composer's specified registrations.

Compositional Technique

Gaspard Corrette's organ mass, like others of its time, was designed for 'alternatim practice,' where organ pieces alternated with sung chant during the liturgy.

Instruments

The pine-wood open Supbass 16' (1709) in the Marmoutier organ is the oldest 16' Pedal Flute in France.

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The Marmoutier organ, built by Andreas Silbermann, synthesizes German tradition with the Parisian style, notably featuring an independent Pedal based on a wooden Flute 16'.