For example I've heard some French thought that "chorales"
(e.g. Franck's great Trois Chorales in E, b & a, b being the Son as minor dominant of the Father and a being the Holy Spirit leading tone to the Son (AMAZING I didn't see that for DECADES until this SECOND), every line of them full of Trinitarian symbolism)
were great heroic musical pieces instead of realizing that in Germany they rather were existing hymn tunes the organist gave a harmonization to accompany congregational singing.
No question Madame Duruflé was a tremendously great organist; she had to be to play her husband's profound materworks, if she'd just leave Bach alone! So few French organists give proper registration or tempi for him, they import so much of their Gallic-Papist views that so distort th Lutheran understanding of even the non-liturgical "toccata" like BWV 566 (per Schmieder's catalog, not the "Toccata & Fugue" of popular misunderstanding, as with 565 prior, also just Toccata.
I have a recording of Bach Organ Music by her and Maurice made in that era at the cathedral. It was that which inspired me to become an organist. I love this recording also.
I don't know if French papists don't have congregational singing or why they'd think that.
russedav5 7 months ago
For example I've heard some French thought that "chorales"
(e.g. Franck's great Trois Chorales in E, b & a, b being the Son as minor dominant of the Father and a being the Holy Spirit leading tone to the Son (AMAZING I didn't see that for DECADES until this SECOND), every line of them full of Trinitarian symbolism)
were great heroic musical pieces instead of realizing that in Germany they rather were existing hymn tunes the organist gave a harmonization to accompany congregational singing.
russedav5 7 months ago
No question Madame Duruflé was a tremendously great organist; she had to be to play her husband's profound materworks, if she'd just leave Bach alone! So few French organists give proper registration or tempi for him, they import so much of their Gallic-Papist views that so distort th Lutheran understanding of even the non-liturgical "toccata" like BWV 566 (per Schmieder's catalog, not the "Toccata & Fugue" of popular misunderstanding, as with 565 prior, also just Toccata.
russedav5 7 months ago
I have a recording of Bach Organ Music by her and Maurice made in that era at the cathedral. It was that which inspired me to become an organist. I love this recording also.
accousticdecay 1 year ago