@tonymirenda3023 Thank you! My organ teacher in college tried to get me to learn it and I don't think I did so well. But I hope I got it right now... 😁
@HowardJohnstone This is long, but it's the information I have: Franck composed his Trois Chorals over the course of two months in the summer of 1890; he died in November of the same year, and the works were published posthumously in 1891. Franck never had the opportunity to teach these three masterpieces, though he played through them on the piano in his home. However, it is clear that these works were intended to be played on a French symphonic organ - Franck reportedly wished to register them on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Sainte-Clotilde in Paris (where he was organist), but never did. The dedication gives further evidence of the work being steeped in the French Romantic School, though it is somewhat controversial - the Durand edition says that the first chorale is dedicated to Eugène Gigout, but Vincent d'Indy argues that Franck intended that it be attributed to Alexandre Guilmant (Smith 209-210). Regardless of the dedicatee, the symphonic style of the work resembles Guilmant’s organ sonatas, which were written for Cavaillé-Coll organs. The "Choral I in E Major" was completed on August 7, 1890, during which time Franck and his family vacationed at Nemours. In a letter to a friend written later that month, he was likely referring to the E-Major Chorale: "I have written a long organ piece that I have entitled simply Choral. A chorale it is, indeed, but with plenty of fantasy," (Smith 212).
Perfection in my opinion Dan
Terrific!
@tonymirenda3023 Thank you! My organ teacher in college tried to get me to learn it and I don't think I did so well. But I hope I got it right now... 😁
This likely a downwritten improvisaton 1890.
@HowardJohnstone This is long, but it's the information I have:
Franck composed his Trois Chorals over the course of two months in the summer of 1890; he died in November of the same year, and the works were published posthumously in 1891. Franck never had the opportunity to teach these three masterpieces, though he played through them on the piano in his home. However, it is clear that these works were intended to be played on a French symphonic organ - Franck reportedly wished to register them on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Sainte-Clotilde in Paris (where he was organist), but never did. The dedication gives further evidence of the work being steeped in the French Romantic School, though it is somewhat controversial - the Durand edition says that the first chorale is dedicated to Eugène Gigout, but Vincent d'Indy argues that Franck intended that it be attributed to Alexandre Guilmant (Smith 209-210). Regardless of the dedicatee, the symphonic style of the work resembles Guilmant’s organ sonatas, which were written for Cavaillé-Coll organs. The "Choral I in E Major" was completed on August 7, 1890, during which time Franck and his family vacationed at Nemours. In a letter to a friend written later that month, he was likely referring to the E-Major Chorale: "I have written a long organ piece that I have entitled simply Choral. A chorale it is, indeed, but with plenty of fantasy," (Smith 212).