Summer! Organ: Maurice Clerc

Programme

Anon. 14th-17th centuries (from the “Suite de Danses Anonymes”, reconstructed by Francis Chapelet):
Intrada – Danse française – Danse anglaise – Danse allemande – Danse espagnole – Danse hongroise – Saltarelle italienne – Danse Autrichienne

Diego Ortiz 1510-70
2 Ricercada Sobre La Cancion “Doulce mémoire” (reconstructed by A. Isoir)

Dietrich Buxtehude 1637-1707
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BuxWV 184

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

André Fleury 1903-95
Fantaisie

Jean Langlais 1907-91
Nativité

Pierre Cochereau 1924-84
Variations sur Adeste Fideles (Improvisation, reconstructed by M. Clerc)

Maurice Clerc, organ

Admission free, donations welcome

About the programme

Maurice Clerc studied in Paris with Suzanne Chaisemartin and Rolande Falcinelli and continued his studies with Gaston Litaize.  He has given over 1,300 concerts in more than 20 countries, including performances in Notre-Dame, Paris and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. In 1987 he gave two concerts in Taipei for the dedication of the grand Flentrop organ, played in Australia and New Zealand in 2019, and performed in Japan and Hong Kong in 2020. He is regarded as a specialist in French music of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was titular organist at Dijon Cathedral for over 46 years, and taught at the Conservatoire and University there. Maurice Clerc is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.