Jean Guillou

Der XIII. Psalm gilt als eines der großartigsten und zugleich berührendsten Chorstücke Liszts. Die Solopartie ist ein Musterbeispiel für innigsten romantischen Ausdruck und atmet reinsten 'Bel Canto'-...

Kompositionsjahr: 1967

In his 'Art of Fugue' Bach himself introduced a theme based on the four letters of his name: the notes we know as Bb A C B correspond to the German note names B A C H. Since that time, many composers...

Franz Liszt's 'Première Valse oubliée' is known and popular as a subtle and delicately beautiful piece for the piano. This romantic gem has now been arranged by Jean Guillou for the organ in his inimi...

The orchestral suite Symphonic Dances Op. 45 from 1940 is Rachmaninoff's last work. Almost at the same time, he wrote an arrangement of the piece for two pianos which he played with Vladimir Horowitz...

The orchestral suite Symphonic Dances Op. 45 from 1940 is Rachmaninoff's last work. Almost at the same time, he wrote an arrangement of the piece for two pianos which he played with Vladimir Horowitz...

This Toccata Opus 9, an early work dating from 1963, is one of Guillou's most often-played works. This brilliant piece works through three themes whose individual character creates a progressive incre...

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

The third movement (Allegro molto vivace) from Tchaikovsky's 'Symphonie pathétique' is - though not specially designated as such - a typical scherzo and, what is more, actually one of the most brillia...

Still leading a shadowy existence, Schumann's works for pedal piano are most likely performed on the organ today. This requires, however, that the music is set for the organ in accordance with the ins...

Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony...

The French composer Jean Guillou (born 1930) has composed a whole series of works for the organ plus a single instrument which are collectively entitled Colloques. This is all that needs to be said on...

In Impulso, Jean Guillou vede il flauto come una persona: di fronte a un pubblico, pone una domanda breve ma avvincente, seguita da una spiegazione. Ma quando ripropone la domanda, la risposta subisce...

Jean Guillou è uno dei più importanti virtuosi e compositori d'organo del nostro tempo. Allievo di Dupré, Duruflé e Messiaen, incarna la tradizione vivente della musica organistica francese. Ha compos...

Co-incidence is a work that opens onto an anacrusi made of two notes, the main element of everything that will happen. These first two notes falling like two short blasts thrown into space will evolve...

Die Ruhe und innige Tiefe der Stille, ihre grenzenlose Unendlichkeit, die innere Seelenruhe und Leidenschaft des Dichters im Vergessen sowie das unsichtbare Drama der Sehnsucht: all dies versucht die...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was reputed to be a poet of semantic ambiguity and, in the opinion of Guillou, therefore comes closest to the art of musical expression. Guillou has already 'translated' 'Peace'...

Jean Guillou is one of the most important organ virtuosos and composers of today. A pupil of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he embodies the living tradition of French organ music.

Jean Guillou is one of the most important organ virtuosos and composers of today. A pupil of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he embodies the living tradition of French organ music.

The French organist and composer Jean Guillou (*1930) calls his own cycle 'Colloque' in which the grand seigneur among the virtuoso organists wants to present an exchange of ideas, while juxtaposing c...