Daniel Roth (organist)

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Daniel François Roth (born October 31, 1942 in Mulhouse , Alsace ) is a French composer , organist and music teacher .

Life

Daniel Roth began his training at the Conservatoire in his hometown Mulhouse in Alsace. In 1960 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris , where he was awarded five first prizes. His teachers included Maurice Duruflé and Rolande Falcinelli . After completing his studies in Paris, he prepared for international competitions with Marie-Claire Alain , of which he won five important ones, including the prestigious Grand Prix de Chartres in organ playing and improvisation in 1971. He then began his international career as a concert organist, Improviser and educator.

In 1963 he became the deputy of his teacher Rolande Falcinelli at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in Paris , who he succeeded in 1973 as titular organist . In 1985 Roth was appointed titular organist at St-Sulpice de Paris .

From 1974 to 1976 Daniel Roth was artist in residence at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and organ professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC After professorships at the Conservatories of Marseille (1973–1979) and Strasbourg (1979–1988) as well as the University of Music Saar in Saarbrücken (1988–1995) he taught artistic organ playing and improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from 1995 to 2007 . In addition, he was artistic advisor for the construction of Karl Schuke's concert hall organ in the Philharmonie Luxembourg , the inauguration of which he played in 2005.

Daniel Roth was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He was also named an “Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Organists” and in 2006 he received the European Church Music Prize in Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 2015 he was named "International Performer of the Year" by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) .

His four children include the flautist and conductor François-Xavier Roth and the violist Vincent Roth .

Compositions

Organ solo

  • Cinq Versets sur "Veni creator" for organ positive without pedal (composed 1965. In: L'organiste liturgique n ° 53. Paris: Éditions Schola Cantorum)
  • Évocation de la Pentecôte (composed in 1979. Paris: Leduc, 1979 / revised 1996, unpublished)
  • Joie, Douleur et Gloire de Marie (composed 1990. London: Novello, 1990)
  • Introduction et Canzona (composed 1977–1990. Leutkirch: Pro Organo, 1992)
  • Final Te Deum (composed 1981. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993)
  • Hommage à César Franck (composed 1990. Paris: Leduc, 1993)
  • Après une Lecture ... (Composed in 1993. In: 1er recueil d'œuvres pour orgue . Paris: Éditions Billaudot, 1993)
  • Pour la nuit de Noël (composed in 1993. Paris: Leduc, 1993):
    • Prelude "Veni, veni Emmanuel"
    • Communion
    • Postlude
  • Triptyque - Hommage à Pierre Cochereau (composed 1995. Paris: Leduc, 1996):
    • Prelude
    • Andante
    • Toccata
  • Petite Rhapsodie sur une chanson alsacienne (In: "Alsatian organ music from four centuries". Mainz: Schott, 1998)
  • Artizarra - Fantaisie sur un chant populaire basque, pour la fête de I'Epiphany (composed in 1999. Mainz: Schott, 2002)
  • Fantaisie fuguée sur "Regina caeli" (Mainz: Schott, 2007)
  • Livre d'orgue pour le Magnificat, Hommage au Facteur d'orgues Aristide Cavaillé-Coll - Volume I (Paris: Éditions de l'Association Boëllmann-Gigout, 2007)
    • Yes Magnificat
    • Ib. Et exsultavit
    • II. Quia respexit
    • III. Quia fecit
    • IV. Et misericordia
    • V. Fecit potentiam
  • Livre d'orgue pour le Magnificat, Hommage au Facteur d'orgues Aristide Cavaillé-Coll - Volume II (Paris: Éditions de l'Association Boëllmann-Gigout, 2011)
    • VI. Deposuit
    • VII. Esurientes
    • VIII. Suscepit
    • IX. Sicut locutus est
    • X. Gloria
  • Christ factus est - Fantaisie sur le graduel de la messe du Jeudi Saint (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2012)
  • Contrastes (In: "Kölner Fanfaren - 17 festive organ pieces". St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag, 2012)
  • Ut, ré, mi - Fantaisie sur l'hymne à saint Jean Baptiste (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2014)
  • Ave maris stella (In: "Orgues nouvelles", October 2014)
  • Love ... a fire! La Pentecôte (composed in 2015. Sampzon: Delatour France, 2017)
  • Deux courtes pièces liturgiques (In: "Orgues nouvelles", June 2019):
    • Alleluia
    • Meditation
  • Prelude pour l'Introït de la messe du jour de Noël, “Puer natus est” (composed in 2019. Unpublished)

Organ for four hands

  • Diptyque (composed in 2009. Sampzon: Delatour France, 2011)
    • Andante
    • Allegro giocoso

Two organs

  • Fantaisie-Dialogue (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2013)
  • Quatre Pièces (composed in 2017. Unpublished)
    • Prelude
    • Offertoire
    • Communion
    • Sortie

Chamber music

  • Legend for oboe and piano (Paris: Éditions Billaudot, 1989)
  • Ain Karim ; Fantasy for flute and organ (Mainz: Schott, 1998)
  • Pièce for viola and organ (composed in 2014. Unpublished)

Vocal works

  • Reine du ciel a cappella (Strasbourg: Éditions Caecilia, 1977)
  • Notre Père a cappella (Strasbourg: Éditions Caecilia, 1977)
  • Bear witness! for soloists, mixed choir and organ (Mainz: Schott, 1998)
  • Missa brevis for mixed choir and organ (composed 1964/1998. Mainz: Schott, 2001)
  • In manus tuas Domine for four-part mixed choir and organ ad lib. (St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag, 2002)
  • Ego sum panis vitae for mixed choir and organ (composed in 2004. St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag, 2005)
  • Missa de archangelis for mixed choir and organ (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2006)
  • 3 motets for mixed choir a capella (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2006)
    • Ave Maria
    • Dignare me, O Jesus
    • Regina Caeli
  • Ave Maria for soprano and organ (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2012)
  • Missa festiva Orbis factor for mixed choir and organ (Sampzon: Delatour France, 2013)
  • Missa beuronensis for organ and Gregorian chant (St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag, 2016)
  • Psalm 124: "Our soul has escaped" (composed in 2017. Unpublished)
  • Cantata song about the chorale "Nun praises God in the high throne" (composed in 2017. Unpublished)
  • Jubilate Deo for mixed choir a capella (composed in 2020. Unpublished.)

orchestra

  • Licht im Dunkel for organ, piano and orchestra:
    • I. L'Espérance (Poème for orchestra) (Mainz: Schott, 2005)
    • II. L'Amour (for organ, piano and orchestra) (Mainz: Schott, 2009)
    • III. La Joie (Fantaisie for organ, piano and orchestra) (Mainz: Schott, 2007)

Organ transcriptions

  • César Franck : Interlude symphonique from the oratorio Rédemption (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1996)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns: Scherzo from the Six Duos op.8 for harmonium and piano (Paris: Éditions Jobert, 2001)
  • César Franck: Symphony in D minor for orchestra; Arrangement based on the composer's version for piano four hands (unpublished)

bibliography

  • Adolph, Wolfram: Creative-musical empathy. Daniel Roth on his 70th birthday. Organ - Journal für die Orgel 15, No. 3 (2012), pp. 16-19.
  • Dub-Attenti, Pierre-François and Christophe Zerbini (eds.): Daniel Roth, Grand chœur. Entretiens avec Pierre-François dub Attenti et Christophe Zerbini, Volume I . Paris: Éditions Hortus, 2019. ISBN 978-2-910582-22-7 .
  • Dub-Attenti, Pierre-François and Christophe Zerbini (eds.): Daniel Roth, Grand chœur. Entretiens avec Pierre-François Dub-Attenti et Christophe Zerbini, Volume II . Paris: Éditions Hortus, 2019. ISBN 978-2-910582-23-4 .
  • Homage to Daniel Roth. An artist portrait. Sulz am Neckar: ORGANpromotion, 2007. OP 6002 (DVD & CD).
  • Organs have a soul. Daniel Roth and the Cavaillé-Coll organs. A film by Nele Münchmeyer. Mainz: ZDF / 3Sat, 1994.
  • Reifenberg, Peter: Daniel Roth - ambassador of the great organ of St. Sulpice. Organ - Journal für die Orgel 2, No. 4 (1999), pp. 30-36.
  • Roth, Daniel: Le Grand-Orgue A. Cavaillé-Coll, Mutin de la Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre à Paris (La Flûte harmonique, Numéro spécial 1985). Paris: Association A. Cavaillé-Coll, 1985.
  • Roth, Daniel: Some thoughts on the interpretation of César Franck's organ work, his organ and the Lemmens tradition. In: organ, organ music and organ playing. Festschrift Michael Schneider on his 75th birthday , ed. by Christoph Wolff, pp. 111–117. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1985.
  • Roth, Daniel and Günter Lade: The Cavaillé-Coll-Mutin organ of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris. Langen near Bregenz: Edition Lade, 1992. ISBN 3-9500017-2-7 .
  • Roth, Daniel and Pierre-François Dub-Attenti: L'orgue neo-classique et le grand orgue Aristide Cavaillé-Coll de Saint-Sulpice. L'Orgue 295-296 (2011).
  • Roth, Daniel: "Le plus bel orgue du monde". Aspects of the registration of Bach organ music on Cavaillé-Coll organs, shown using the example of the great organ of Saint-Sulpice, Paris. Organ - Journal für die Orgel 15, No. 3 (2012), pp. 20–24, 26, 28–29.
  • Roth, Daniel and Pierre-François Dub-Attenti: The Neoclassical Organ and the Great Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Organ of Saint-Sulpice, Paris . London: Rhinegold Publishing, 2014.
  • Petersen, Birger (ed.): Light in the dark - Lumière dans les ténèbres. Festschrift Daniel Roth for his 75th birthday . Bonn: Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-928412-23-0 .
  • Roth, Daniel and Pierre-François Dub-Attenti: Considerations for Interpretation on the Organ. In: Light in the Dark - Lumière dans les ténèbres. Festschrift Daniel Roth for his 75th birthday, ed. by Birger Petersen, pp. 265-419. Bonn: Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag, 2017.
  • Roth, Daniel. The use of rubato in the organ works of César Franck. The American Organist 52, No. 2 (February 2018), pp. 34-38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Daniel Roth: International Performer of the Year 2015 . www.nycago.org. Accessed April 17, 2018.
predecessor Office successor
Rolande Falcinelli Titular organist of the organ of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
1973–1985 		Naji Hakim
predecessor Office successor
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald Titular organist of the St. Sulpice organ
since 1985 		-
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Daniel François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, organist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse , Alsace