Léon Boëllmann (1862 -- 1897) was a French composer
of Alsatian origin, known for a small number of
compositions for organ. His best-known composition is
Suite gothique (1895), still very much a staple of the
organ repertoire, especially its dramatic concluding
Toccata.
During the sixteen years of his professional life,
Boëllmann composed about 160 pieces in all genres.
Faithful to the style of Franck and an admirer of
Saint-Saëns, Boëllmann yet exhibits a
turn-of-the-century Post...(+)
Léon Boëllmann (1862 -- 1897) was a French composer
of Alsatian origin, known for a small number of
compositions for organ. His best-known composition is
Suite gothique (1895), still very much a staple of the
organ repertoire, especially its dramatic concluding
Toccata.
During the sixteen years of his professional life,
Boëllmann composed about 160 pieces in all genres.
Faithful to the style of Franck and an admirer of
Saint-Saëns, Boëllmann yet exhibits a
turn-of-the-century Post-romantic esthetic, which
especially in his organ works, demonstrates "remarkable
sonorities." His best-known composition is Suite
gothique (1895), now a staple of the organ repertoire,
especially its concluding Toccata, a piece "of moderate
difficulty but brilliant effect," with a dramatic minor
theme and a rhythmic emphasis that made it popular even
in Boëllmann's own day. Boëllmann also wrote motets
and art songs, works for piano, a symphony, works for
cello and orchestra and for organ and orchestra, a
cello sonata (dedicated to Jules Delsart), and other
chamber works.
Boëllmann wrote "Les heures mystiques" (Opp. 29/30) in
1896 as a work for communion for String Quartet however
I adapted the first of these quartets for Saxophone
Quartet (Soprano, Alto, Tenon & Baritone Saxophone).
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