Joseph Noyon

Joseph Noyon (born October 3, 1888 in Cherbourg , † October 5, 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French church musician and composer.

Life

As a teenager, Noyon played the organ of the Sainte-Trinité church in his hometown and was a student of Charles de Bériot , Paul Viardot , Alfred Marichelle and Henri Dallier at the Ecole Niedermeyer and Paul Vidal at the Conservatoire de Paris . His participation in the competition for the Prix ​​de Rome was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War .

He worked as organist at the great organ of the chapel of Saint-Cloud, later as Kapellmeister at the Church of Notre-Dame in Auteul, choirmaster at Radiodiffusion Française and finally conductor at Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau .

Noyon composed numerous church music works, including several masses ( Mass en l'honneur de sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus , Mass en l'honneur de saint Augustin , Mass de la Nativité , Mass Pax Christi ), seventy motets , choirs, hymns and three great cantatas . Important piano compositions were written after the First World War, including Impromptu , Ouverture de concert , Les heures roses and Danses grecques .

After a long break, Noyon turned back to instrumental music in 1947. During this time, works such as the Arioso for violin and strings, an Elégie for horn, organ and piano, a Lamento for cello, an Aria for string quartet, an organ concerto, a Divertissement Pastoral for oboe, the Esquisses normandes for wind quartet, a Nocturne and the Marche funèbre .

Compositions

Joseph Noyon composed more than 400 works, mostly sacred music, including:

• Hymn à la nuit (La Nuit de Rameau), for a cappella choir
• L'enfance de l'Immaculée for soloists, female choir, organ and orchestra ( dedicated to Rose-Marie Paillet )

Motets

• Cantate Domino , for mixed choir, 2 organs, trumpets and trombones
• In Me Gratia (motet à la Sainte Vierge) for 4-part male choir
• Jérusalem acclame , for choir, soloists and organ
• Laudate Dominum in sanctis (Ps. 150) for 2 voices and organ
• Panis Angelicus for mixed choir and organ
• Notre Père, qui êtes aux cieux , for 4 voices and organ
• Tantum Solennel, dit du Congrès , for one-part male choir, mixed choir, 2 organs, trumpets and trombones

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• Messe de la Nativité sur des Noëls populaires for 2–3 voices or 4 voices and organ (1942)
• Mass brève for organ and choir
• Mass en l'honneur de Frères des écoles chrétiennes for 4 mixed voices, organ and instruments ad lib.
• Mass en l'honneur de saint Augustin for 4 mixed voices, organ and instruments ad lib.
• Requiem, for soloists, choir and orchestra (1949)
• Oratorio in 7 parts for soloists, choir, orchestra and organ Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (1950)
• Mass solennelle "Pax Christi" for mixed choir, 2 organs, trumpets and trombones (1953)

Organ works

• Allegretto en sol
• Elévation en sol majeur (1924)
• Final en ut majeur
• Variations sur un vieux Noël

Piano works

• impromptu
• Overture de concert
• Les heures roses
• Danses grecques

Instrumental music

• Berceuse for violin and piano (1919)
• Arioso for violin and strings
• Elégie for horn and piano or organ
• Lamento for cello
• Aria for string quintet
• Concerto en ré majeur, for organ and orchestra
• Divertissement Pastoral for oboe
• Esquisses normandes for wind quartet
• nocturne
• Marche funèbre