Maurice Durufle

Référence unique par son ISBN 9790044080175 cette partition musique de Durufle M. n'est autre que QUATRE MOTETS SUR DES THEMES GREGORIENS OP. 10 POUR Choeur A CAPPELLA qui a été composée pour Choeur. Les droits d'auteur de cette partition de musique de style Classique se trouvent chez les éditions Durand. La référence catalogue de cette oeuvre est DF01390100. / Choeur / Partition

Référence unique par son ISBN 9790044061266 cette partition musique de Durufle M. n'est autre que REQUIEM ChoeurS A QUATRE VOIX (S.A.T.B.) qui a été composée pour Choeur. Les droits d'auteur de cette partition de musique de style Classique se trouvent chez les éditions Durand. La référence catalogue de cette oeuvre est DF01336600. / Choeur / Partition

from Requiem-From The Requiem Op. 9 by Maurice Duruflé this movement was performed in 2009 by the Texas All-State Choir. With most of the music in the requiem derived from chant the work was written in memory of the composer'sfather.

From Quatre Motets Sur Des Themes Gregoriens-Duruflé grew up in Louviers in the northern French region of Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) where as a boy he was a chorister and studied piano. At the age of 17 he moved to Paris to study organ with Charles Tournemire. A year later Duruflé wasadmitted to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied organ piano and composition and was awarded five first prizes in various subjects. Upon graduation Duruflé became musical assistant to Louis Vierne at Notre Dame but soon after this wasappointed organist at Saint Étienne-du-Mont in Paris where he would remain for the rest of his life. In 1943 he was appointed professor of harmony at the Conservatoire a position he maintained for 27 years. From 1926 until 1977 Duruflé published 14compositions including the Requiem Op. 9 (1947). Duruflé traveled extensively as a concert organist and was active as a recording artist. Later in life he and his second wife often performed as an organ duo. The composer suffered severe injuriesin an automobile accident in 1975 which left him nearly bed-ridden for the final decade of his life.Composed in 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op. 10 (Four Motets on Gregorian Themes) were dedicated to Auguste le Guennant director of the Gregorian Institute in Paris. Each of the four motets begins with an incipit of Gregorianchant which serves as melodic inspiration for the composition that follows. The four motets are (in order): ?Ubi caritas ? ?Tota pulchra es ? ?Tu es Petrus ? and ?Tantum ergo.? ?Ubi caritas? is an early Christian antiphon traditionally used in the Maundy Thursday service during the washing of the feet an act of Jesus from the Last Supper. The antiphon has become closely associated with the Eucharist and is sometimes alsoused at weddings. Duruflé sets only the first of the four stanzas of the text.

Maurice Duruflè (1902-1986) dedicated this hauntingly beautiful setting of the Lord's Prayer to his wife. Simple and direct it is almost chantlike in its melodic purity. Originally written for unison voices (or solo voice)with organ accompaniment Duruflé later scored it for four-part chorus. These new editions include an English text for singing the original French text and a keyboard reduction of the unaccompanied version.