Ernest Grosjean

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Ernest Grosjean (born December 18, 1844 in Vagney ; died December 28, 1936 ) was a French organist and composer .

Life

Ernest Grosjean was the nephew and pupil of Jean-Romary Grosjean , the founder and director of the Journal des organistes . His other teachers were Henri Hess , Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexis Chauvet for piano, organ, harmony, composition and fugue.

He took up his first position as organist in 1864 at Uzès Cathedral . From 1868 to 1935 he was the organist and conductor of the Verdun Cathedral , where he used the large Jacquot Jeanpierre organ from 1898 to 1916 . After the instrument was decommissioned during World War I, it was inaugurated again on March 25, 1935 by Marcel Dupré and Pierre Camonin . Camonin succeeded him as titular organist in 1935.

Ernest Grosjean was the maternal grandfather of Elisabeth Brasseur .

Works

Grosjean wrote various textbooks, including a. for harmony, as well as numerous pieces for organ, piano, choir and other instrumentations.

  • Soixante-dix pièces faciles for organ (reprint Musica Rinata, 2007).
  • Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium (reprint Armelin Musica, 2007).
  • Noël d'alsace et de Lorraine .
  • Les ans dans nos campagnes
  • Offertoire "O filii et filiæ" - pour le temps pascal.
  • Marche nuptiale , in Journal des Organistes .
  • Aria cantabile , in Journal des Organistes (1880).
  • Memento for organ, ed. Combre.
  • Offertoire bref ou Communion
  • Prelude
  • Méthode pour l'accompagnement du chant grégorien. L.-J. Biton, Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre (1917).

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SURNAME Grosjean, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Vagney
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1936