Pierne, G.: Paysages Franciscains / L'An Mil / Prelude To Les Cathedrales

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Jacques Mercier
Lionel Peintre
Orchestre National de Lorraine
Nicolas de Grigny Choir
Gabriel Henri Constant Pierné

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Composer Biography

Gabriel Pierné was primarily known for his conducting activities, leading the famous Concerts Colonne from 1910 to 1934 and promoting French traditional and avant-garde music.

Composition History

Les Cathédrales was incidental music composed by Gabriel Pierné for a dramatic poem by Eugène Morand, created in 1915 during World War I, lamenting the destruction of French cathedrals.

Compositional Technique

In L'An Mil, Gabriel Pierné uses musical quotations from Gregorian chant (Dies Irae, Kyrie, Te Deum, Credo) and juxtaposes two medieval prose pieces.

Composition History

L'An Mil, a vast symphonic poem, was inspired by Gabriel Pierné's friend, the painter Luc-Olivier Merson, who was known for his medieval-inspired works.

Composition History

Paysages franciscains was inspired by Gabriel Pierné's reading of Franciscan Pilgrimages by Danish poet and writer Johannes Jørgensen, a collection of impressions from a journey in Assisi.

Composer Biography

Gabriel Pierné succeeded his master César Franck as organist at Sainte-Clotilde in Paris from 1890 to 1898.

Composer Biography

Gabriel Pierné, born in Metz in 1863, came from a family of music teachers who were exiled to Paris after France's defeat in 1870 and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine.