Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

Jacques -Nicolas Lemmens, ndl. Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens also, ( born January 3, 1823 in Zoerle - Parwys in Westerlo, † January 30, 1881 in Sempst at Mechelen ) was a Belgian organist and composer.

Life

Lemmens received his first organ lessons from his father, a village organist, and with the organist of Diest, van den Broeck. Since 1839 he attended the Conservatory in Brussels, where he was taught by its first director, François -Joseph Fétis. Fétis sent Lemmens also to Wroclaw, so that he could familiarize themselves with Adolf Friedrich Hesse with Bach's organ tradition.

After winning several prizes for composition, organ and piano ( including the prestigious Prix de Rome for his composition Le roi Lear ), Lemmens was 1849-1869 teacher of organ at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

1852 took Lemmens a concert tour to Paris, where he led the audience replied in the churches of Saint -Vincent- de -Paul, La Madeleine and Saint- Eustache with his organ lectures in astonishment.

Subsequently traveled many aspiring organists, partly supported by Aristide Cavaillé- Coll, who ' was a great admirer Lemmens, to Brussels, to be trained. To Lemmens ' students included Joseph Callaerts, Joseph Tilborgs, Clément Loret, Alphonse Mailly; later, Alexandre Guilmant and Charles -Marie Widor as a private student.

The latter later reported Lemmens ' game:

" No one who heard Lemmens can forget the clarity, power, the magnificence of his game - the smallest details he gave weight, but without ever losing the piece as a whole out of sight. "

1857 married the English soprano Helen Lemmens Sherrington ( 1834-1906 ) and moved to its action after the extremely successful concert tours in previous years on the continent more and more to the UK. In 1869, he put his professorship at the Brussels Conservatory for financial reasons down and moved to London. At the request of the Belgian episcopate in 1878, he returned back to Belgium, where he worked in Mechelen a school for church music, which was later named after him Lemmens Institute, founded.

Previously he had used for the restoration of sacred music. So he had his 1862 " Ecole d' Orgue basée sur le Plain - Chant Romain " issued an organ school, which put emphasis on the processing of Gregorian chant. He was also one of the most prominent members of the company founded by the eminent researcher Michael Trier Choral Hermes Dorff club to restore Gregorian chant, which also included Joseph Pothier from the French Abbaye Saint -Pierre de Solesmes.

The musical branch of the Belgian Academy of Science and Art ( WENK or W & K ) is called after him, " Lemmens Institute " and is located in Leuven.

Works

Orgelkompositionen

  • Dix Improvisations dans le style et sévère chantant (1848 )
  • Ecole d' Orgue, basée sur le plain- chant romain ( Organ School, 1862), incl:
  • Prelude to 5 votes ( Grave ) in E flat major
  • Prière ( Moderato cantabile ) E major
  • Fanfare ( Allegro non troppo ) in D major
  • Cantabile ( Allegretto ) B minor
  • Finale ( Allegro) in D major
  • Trois Sonatas ( 1874):
  • Sonata No. 1 " Pontifical " D Minor
  • Sonata No. 2 " O Filii " E Minor
  • Sonata No. 3 " Pascale " A Minor

Harmonium compositions

  • Morceaux pour Orgue - Melodium
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