Jacques Berthier (composer)

Jacques Berthier (born June 27, 1923 in Auxerre , France , † June 27, 1994 in Paris ) was an organist and composer in Paris.

Life

Berthier studied piano, organ and composition. From 1953 to 1960 he worked as an organist at the Cathedral of Auxerre and since 1961 at the St. Ignatius Church in Paris.

Together with Frere Robert Giscard and Joseph Gelineau SJ , he has been developing the genre " Chants from Taizé " since 1974 . He composed for Taizé 284 (there are 71 in Taizé's songbook in the 2010/11 edition) short, polyphonic songs with instrumental accompaniment, often with overvotes sung by soloists. The best known are Laudate omnes gentes and Ubi caritas . (On the other hand, the Taizé-Halleluja , which is often incorrectly called, does not come from him, but from Karen Lafferty .)

In the German-speaking area, some of Jacques Berthier's songs have been included in the hymn book of God's praise , some also in the Evangelical hymn book and in the hymn book of the Evangelical Methodist Church . Jacques Berthier also composed other church music works (such as masses and works for organ ), but his "Gesänge aus Taizé" is probably the most widespread contemporary Christian music.

In 2006 he was posthumously awarded the Jubilate Deodorant Award . Frere Jean-Marie von Taizé accepted the award on his behalf.

Songs in the Taizé songbook

(Numbers refer to the 2010/2011 songbook)

• 1: Dans nos obscurités
• 2: Wait for the Lord
• 3: Stay here and watch with me
• 5: Bless the Lord
• 6: Gloria ... et in terra pax (canon)
• 7: Notre âme attend
• 8: C'est toi ma lamp
• 9: Jésus le Christ
• 10: Laudate Dominum
• 11: Oculi nostri
• 12: De noche
• 13: Veni Creator (litany)
• 14: Tui amoris
• 15: Ubi caritas
• 16: Béissez le Seigneur
• 17: El Senyor
• 18: Confitemini Domino
• 19: Magnificat (canon)
• 20: Adoramus te Christe
• 21: Christe Salvator
• 22: Veni Creator (canon)
• 23: Laudate omnes gentes
• 24: Sing to the Lord
• 25: Gloria, gloria (canon)
• 26: La ténèbre
• 29: Ostend nobis
• 32: Mon âme se repose
• 33: Nunc dimittis
• 35: Bonum est confidere
• 36: Spirit of Jesus Christ
• 37: Jesus, remember me
• 38: Psallite Deodorant
• 40: Surrexit Christ
• 41: Magnificat (chorale)
• 43: Veni Lumen (choral)
• 44: Adoramus te O Christe
• 45: Christ resurrexit
• 46: In te confido
• 47: Per crucem (canon)
• 48: Crucem tuam
• 49: Surrexit Dominus vere
• 50: Nada te turbe
• 52: Veni Sancte Spiritus
• 53: Dona la pace Signore
• 54: Toi, tu nous aimes
• 55: Da pacem cordium
• 56: Sanctum nomen Domini
• 57: Vieni Spirito creatore
• 58: Misericordias Domini
• 60: O Christe Domine Jesu
• 61: Jubilate Coeli
• 63: Benedictus (canon)
• 65: Dona nobis pacem
• 68: Alleluia 4
• 69: Alleluia 7
• 70: Alleluia 8
• 71: Alleluia 10
• 72: Alleluia 11
• 79: Kyrie eleison 1
• 80: Kyrie eleison 5
• 81: Kyrie eleison 6
• 82: Kyrie eleison 8
• 83: Kyrie eleison 9
• 84: Kyrie eleison 10
• 85: Kyrie eleison 12
• 86: Kyrie eleison 13
• 92: Veni Lumen cordium I
• 93: Veni Lumen cordium II
• 117: Nebojte se
• 141: abide by your grace
• 143: Jesus Christ bread of life - Eat this bread

literature

• Jacques Berthier, Pierre Faure, Didier Rimaud: Jacques Berthier - a servant of liturgical music . Interview. Singende Kirche, No. 2, 1996, pp. 95-101, from: Heiliger Dienst , No. 3/1995.
• Roger Trunk: Berthier, Jacques . In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , pp. 36–37 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Works by and about Jacques Berthier in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Taizé composers
• Songs from Taizé

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Enzinger: The legend of the "Taizé-Halleluja"
2. ↑ The songs from Taizé. Singing voices. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3-451-32680-6 .