Jean-Jacques Grunenwald

Jean -Jacques Grunenwald ( born February 2, 1911 in Cran- Gevrier; † 19 December 1982, Paris ) was a French organist, composer and music teacher.

Life and work

Jean -Jacques Grunenwald was born in 1911 in Cran- Gevrier at Annecy. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he received first prizes in organ playing and improvisation (1935, Marcel Dupré ) and composition (1937, Henri Busser ). Two years later Grunenwald with the significant Second Prix de Rome ( "Second Grand Prix du Rome " ) was awarded fondu for his cantata La farceu you Mari.

In addition to his musical education studying Grunenwald at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris in Paris, which he left in 1941 as a trained architect. 1955 Grunenwald titular organist at Saint-Pierre -de -Montrouge in Paris. Two years later he began a recording of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach on 24 LPs ( a world premiere recording ), which he completed in 1962. The recordings took place in Soissons at the Gonzales - organ in the cathedral.

From 1957 to 1961 he was professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris; from 1961-1966 he taught organ at the Conservatory of Geneva. His pupils included Jean -Pierre Decavèle, Raffi Ourgandijan and Louis Robilliard. In January 1973, Jean -Jacques Grunenwald followed his teacher Marcel Dupré after as titular organist at Saint- Sulpice in Paris, a post he held until his death in 1982 at the age of 71 years. As an organist, he played more than 1500 concerts worldwide.

The composer Jean -Jacques Grunenwald wrote many organ and piano works, and chamber music, orchestral works, oratorios, and several major film scores, such as to Monsieur Vincent ( 1947).

Grunenwald was buried in Paris, in the chapel of Fourgeaud call Virenque Grunenwald family in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Compositions

Organ solo

  • Première Suite ( 1937)
  • Deuxième Suite ( 1938)
  • Berceuse (1939 )
  • Quatre elevation (1939 )
  • Hymne aux Mémoires héroïques (1939 )
  • Hymne à la Splendeur of Clartés (1940 )
  • Variations sur un Noël du XVIe brèves Je me suis levé Siècle (1949 )
  • Cinq Pièces pour l' Office Divin (1952 )
  • Fugue sur les jeux d' anches (1954 )
  • Diptyque liturgique (1956 )
  • Hommage à Josquin des Pres (1956 )
  • Introduction et aria (1956 )
  • Messe du Très Saint Sacrement (1960 )
  • Adoratio (1964 )
  • Sonata (1964 )
  • Pièce en Mosaique ( Contrastes ) ( 1966)
  • Pastoral mystique (1968 )
  • Oppositions (1976 )
  • Postlude alleluiatique (1977 )

Piano solo

  • Prelude (1936 )
  • La melody intérieure (1944 )
  • Fantasmagorie ( Scherzo ) ( 1946)
  • Cahier pour Gérard: cinq pièces (1948 )
  • Capriccio for piano ... (1958 )
  • Partita (1971 )

Piano and Orchestra

  • Concerto ( 1940)
  • Concert d' été for piano and string orchestra (1944 )

Orchestra

  • Fêtes de la lumière (1937 )
  • Ouverture pour un drame sacre (1954 )

Various works

  • Suite de danses for Harpsichord or Piano (1948 )
  • Fantaisie - arabesque for Harpsichord ( or Piano), oboe, A clarinet and bassoon (1950 )
  • Sardanapale: drame lyrique en trois actes (1950 )
  • Variations sur un thème de Machaut for Harpsichord ( 1957)
  • Henry Barraud (1900-1997): Te Deum for orchestra, arranged for choir and organ by Jean -Jacques Grunenwald (1957 )
  • Psaume CXXIX ( De profundis ) for mixed choir and orchestra ( 1961)
  • Tu es Petrus for choir and two organs (1965 )
  • Fantaisie en dialogue for Organ and Orchestra ( 1965)
  • Sonate de concert for trumpet and string orchestra or trumpet and organ (1967 )

Film scores

  • Les Anges du Péché (1943, Director: Robert Bresson )
  • Falbalas (1945, Director: Jacques Becker)
  • Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Director: Robert Bresson )
  • Dernier refuge (1947, Director: Marc Maurette )
  • Antoine et Antoinette (1947, directed by Jacques Becker)
  • Monsieur Vincent (1947, Director: Maurice Cloche )
  • Docteur Laennec (1949, Director: Maurice Cloche )
  • La Route inconnue (1949, Director: Léon Poirier )
  • Journal d'un Curé de Campagne - Diary of a Country Priest, (1951, Director: Robert Bresson )
  • Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951, Director: Robert Bresson )
  • Édouard et Caroline (1951, Director: Jacques Becker)
  • La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952, Director: Henri Decoin )
  • La Demoiselle et son revenant (1952, Director: Marc Allégret )
  • Mina de Vanghel (1953, directors: Maurice Barry and Maurice Clavel )
  • L' Étrange désir de Monsieur Bard (1953, Director: Géza von Radványi )
  • Les Amants de Tolède (1953, directors: Henri Decoin and Fernando Palacios )
  • Le Rideau cramoisi (1953, directors: Alexandre Astruc )
  • Navigation marchande atlantique (1954, Director: Georges Franju )
  • Le Chevalier de la nuit (1954, Director: Robert dArène )
  • Le Défroqué (1954, Director: Léo Joannon )
  • L' Homme aux clefs d'or (1956, Director: Léo Joannon )
  • S.O.S. Noronha (1957, Director: Georges Rouquier )
  • Les Aventures d' Arsène Lupin (1957, Director: Jacques Becker)
  • À cause, à cause d'une femme (1963, Director: Michel Deville )

Bibliography

  • Jean -Jacques Grunenwald: organiste, compositeur architecte. L' Orgue: Cahiers et memoirs No. 36 (1986). Paris: Association des Amis de l' Orgue, 1986.
  • Xavier Darasse: Jean -Jacques Grunenwald in Guide de la musique d' orgue, edited by Gilles Cantagrel. Fayard, Paris 1991: 417-419.
  • A. Machabey: Portraits de trente musiciens français. Paris, 1949: 93-96.
  • Gérard Serret (ed.): Jean -Jacques Grunenwald. Paris, France: G. Serret, 1984.
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