André Fleury (organist)

André ( Édouard Antoine Marie) Fleury ( born July 25, 1903 in Neuilly -sur -Seine; † August 6, 1995 in Le Vésinet ) was a French composer, pianist, organist and music teacher.

Life

André Fleury received his organistic training first as a private student of Henri Letocart, a pupil of César Franck, and later with André Marchal and Louis Vierne. At the Conservatoire de Paris Fleury was added to the organ class of Eugène Gigout and finally received a first prize in organ playing and improvisation at Gigouts successor Marcel Dupré in 1926. Simultaneously, he studied composition with Paul Vidal. Since 1920, Fleury was assistant of Eugène Gigout at the Paris church of St. Augustine, and, in the same function, in Ste. Clotilde ( for Charles Tournemire ). In 1930 he was appointed titular organist at St. Augustine in 1941 also professor at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. After the end of World War II Fleury and his wife left for health reasons Paris and settled in Dijon. In 1949, he succeeds by Émile Poillot as titular organist at the cathedral, is a professor of piano (later also organ) at the Conservatory of Dijon. In 1971 he was appointed at the invitation of Jean Guillou for co- titular organist at St. Eustache in Paris and was also a professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum and the appointment as titular organist at the Cathedral in Versailles. André Fleury died in 1995 at the age of 92 years in Le Vésinay and was buried in Arcy- sur- Cure.

As a composer, Fleury wrote numerous works for organ, many of which are, however, still unpublished. His career as a concert organist led him throughout Europe. He played the premieres of the organ sonata by Darius Milhaud, the Scherzo, Op 2 by Maurice Duruflé, and the organ cycle La Nativité du Seigneur by Olivier Messiaen ( after the first performance by Jean Langlais, Daniel - Lesur and Jean -Jacques Grunenwald 1935 in Paris). Among his most famous pupils were Gavoty Bernard, Pierre and Daniel - Lesur Cochereau.

Compositions

Organ solo

  • Allegro symphonique (1927 )
  • Prelude and Fugue No.. 1 (1928)
  • Vingt- quatre pièces pour orgue ou harmonium (1930-1933)
  • Prélude, Andante et Toccata (1931/1932)
  • Pièce sans titre (à Odette et Jean Degouy ) ( 1933)
  • Postlude ( dernière of 24 pièces - arrangé pour Grand Orgue ) ( 1935)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1938/1943)
  • Pastorale (1941, unpublished)
  • Divertissement sur ​​un Noël (1941, unpublished)
  • Adeste Fideles Variations sur (1942, unpublished)
  • Pour la Pentecôte, Veni Sancti Spiritus (1943, unpublished)
  • Toccata Ite Missa Est sur ​​l' pascal (1943 or 1944)
  • Versets sur le Veni Creator (1945, unpublished)
  • Carillon sur le Victimae Paschali Lauds (1945, unpublished)
  • Offertoire pour l' Ascension (1945, unpublished)
  • Offertoire sur deux Noël (1945 or 1946)
  • Sortie sur un vieux Noël (1945 or 1946)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1946/1947)
  • Variations sur Haec Dies ( 1946, unpublished)
  • Postlude ( en Ré ) (1947, unpublished)
  • Paraphrase sur l' Alleluia de la Messe de Pâques (1947, unpublished)
  • Prélude à l' Introit (1947, unpublished)
  • Offertoire (1947, unpublished)
  • Sortie pascale (O Filii ) (1947, unpublished)
  • Prélude sur l' Introit Resurrexi (1949, unpublished)
  • Vexilla Regis (1949, unpublished)
  • Messe pour la fête de tous les saints (1954 )
  • Prélude à l' après la Pentecôte Introit VXIème dimanche (1954 )
  • Psaume pour les morts de la guerre (1954, unpublished)
  • Prelude and Fugue No.. 2 (1957-1959)
  • Variations sur un Noël bourguignon (1959/1960)
  • Offertoire pour une messe de la Sainte Vierge ( Ave Maria) (1959 )
  • Entrée pour le dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte (1961 )
  • Offertoire pour le dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte (1961, unpublished)
  • Elévation pour le dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte (1962, unpublished)
  • Communion pour le dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte (1963, unpublished)
  • Postlude pour le dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte (1965, unpublished)
  • Sept pièces (1967 )
  • Fantaisie ( Honos alit artes ) ( 1969)
  • Prélude, Cantilène et Final (1981 )
  • Transcription you Vézinet de Rameau (1983 )
  • Versets sur l' hymne Lucis Creator ( 1990)
  • Pièce sans titre tampon (1993 )

Organ with other instruments

  • Marche for trumpet and organ (1980, unpublished)
  • Méditation for Cello and Organ (1988, unpublished)

Piano solo

  • Trois pièces (1946/1947)
  • Quatre pièces brèves (1951, unpublished)
  • Trois pièces (1953 )

Undated works

  • Versets sur l' hymne Lucis Creator for Organ
  • Trois sur A Solis Ortus Cardine versets for Organ
  • Transcription de la Berceuse extr. de Dolly ( Fauré ) for organ
  • Subjects de fugues, thèmes d' improvisation ( P. Cochereau, M. Dupré )
  • Prélude à l' Introit / dimanche après la XVIème Pentecôte for Organ
  • Movements de trio avec piano
  • Magnificat du 8ème fashion for Organ
  • In memory of Louis Vierne for Organ
  • Final of the Variations sur O Filii for Organ
  • Esquisses d'une pièce en hommage à Jehan Alain Organ
  • Esquisse you 3ème mouvement d'un Tryptique pour orgue
  • Choeur "A Jésus Ouvrier "

Bibliography

  • André Fleury talks to Dorotheenhütte. In: Ars Organi. Volume 41, Issue 3, September 1993, pp. 127-140.
  • Frédéric Blanc and François Sabatier (ed.): André Fleury ( 1903-1995 ). In: L' Orgue: Cahiers et memoirs No. 55, Association des Amis de l' Orgue, Paris 1996.
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