Lionel Rogg

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Lionel Rogg (born April 21, 1936 in Geneva ) is a Swiss organist , composer and university professor .

Education and biography

Rogg studied organ playing with Pierre Segond and piano with Nikita Magaloff at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève . He has given concerts around the world in particular with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , whose entire organ works he recorded three times on phonograms. Rogg played a. a. also the complete organ works by Dietrich Buxtehude on record. He taught at the Geneva Conservatory until 2001 and is professor of artistic organ and improvisation at the Royal Academy of Music in London . In 1989 he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Geneva .

Organ works

  • Partita sopra "Now rejoice" (1976)
  • Variations on le Psaume 91 (1983)
  • Introduction, Ricercare, Toccata (1985)
  • Elégie (1985)
  • Contrepointes pour les pédales (1986)
  • Deux Etudes (1986): Le Canon improbable; Tètracordes;
  • Monodies (1986)
  • Six Versets sur le Psaume 92 (1986-87)
  • Tons sur Tons (1988)
  • Toccata ritmica (1988-89)
  • Homage to Messiaen (1990)
  • Arcature (Apparition, Evocation, Finale) (1994)
  • La Femme et le Dragon (1995)
  • Livre d'orgue (1996) (Suite pour l'orgue français)
  • Lux aeterna (1996)
  • Homage à Takemitsu (Les Quatre Eléments) (1997)
  • Toccata capricciosa (1999)
  • Homage to Maurice Duruflé (1999)
  • Méditation sur BACH (2000)
  • Chaconne (2001)
  • fandango
  • Kaléidoscope
  • Variations on "Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman"

Works for organ and other instruments

  • Elégie pour violon et orgue (1985)
  • Recitativo pour synthés et orgue (1988)
  • Pièce pour Hautbois et Orgue (1991)
  • "Incantations", orgue et percussion (1993)
  • "Laudes creaturarum" pour soprano et orgue (2001)
  • "Laudes organi" pour soprano solo, choeur et orgue (2000)
  • Two songs of Mary pour soprano et orgue (1956)

Works for organ and orchestra

  • Concerto pour orgue et orchester (1991) (world premiere on February 14, 1993 in Geneva)
  • Concertino pour orgue et orchester de chamber (1965)

Organ transcriptions

  • F. Liszt: St-François de Paule marchant sur les flots
  • J. Brahms: Variations sur un thème de Haydn
  • Anton Bruckner: Huitième symphony
  • F. Liszt: Funérailles Ed. H. Lemoine
  • J.Brahms: Final de la 4ème Symphonie (Chaconne)

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personal data
SURNAME Rogg, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva