Nicolas-Jacques Lemmens: Fanfare: Organ: Instrumental Work

Lemmens’s Fanfare in D is frequently performed and recorded. The thrilling dynamic contrasts mark it as a piece of his era while the continuous semiquavers in the right hand owe much to the work of Lemmens’s musical hero J S Bach.Jaak Nikolaas [Jacques Nicolas] Lemmens was a Belgian Organist and composer of the 19th century. He was widely acknowledged to be the best Organist of his time with particularly beautiful legato and pedal technique some of which can be discerned from his compositions for his work Organ School where this fanfare first appeared. He was instrumental in bringing the works of Bach to France and Belgium and was influential as an educator.

The 'organ plus? one series was conceived primarily with semi-professional church musicians and instrumentalists in mind.Based on the liturgical year, the pieces can be readily performed in church services, evening recitals or small concerts.Included are pieces which are freely-composed or based on chorales, both original works and arrangements.Each edition includes solo parts for instruments in C, B-flat, E-flat and F which can be played by violin, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet and horn in F. The range of the solo instruments remains in the middle register.Among the pieces in this edition are John Alcock, 'Fuga? - ChristliebSiegmund Binder, 'Prelude in F major? - Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, 'Fanfare? - Max Philipp Zeyhold, 'Concerto in A major? - Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan? - Karl Hoyer, 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier? - Carl Piutti, 'Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König? - and Carsten Klomp, 'Grosser Gott, wir loben dich?. / Orgue

Par LEMMENS JACQUES-NICOLAS. Fanfare by Belgian composer Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, arranged for Clarinet Choir by Matt Johnston. Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823?1881) is a composer unfamiliar to most, unless you happen to be either an organist, or a Belgian (or a Belgian organist!). At the age of 26, he was appointed organ teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels with two of his most accomplished students being Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor. In 1879 he founded a school for church music in Mechelen, Belgium, which would later bear his name upon moving to Leuven in 1968. The Lemmensinstituut has since broadened its curriculum beyond church music and is a prominent, award-winning music conservatory. This Fanfare of Lemmens is an organ piece popular to play as a postlude or as a wedding recessional. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Clarinettes