The Diapason an International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, the Harpsichord and Church Music
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THE DIAPASON AN INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY DEVOTED TO THE ORGAN, THE HARPSICHORD AND CHURCH MUSIC Sixty-Filth Year, No. 2 - Whole No. 170 J,jNUARY, 197-1 total of 249 \ariations, (Thcse figures, compiled by nonms. count the themc statement as ,'arialion # I ) . They are fIoel Variatio~ arranged according 10 tonality, using the tonalities of D minor. F major, G 11I :ljnr, A minor, and C m3jor. These ,'ariations evidently demanded a vir tuoso techniquc and carefully chosen in tke 17tk & f8tk Centurie6 registration, Clearly presenting the themc, hl.' uses the slandard devices of figural \'ariations as well as occasional Change of meter. IIrunold speculates Guenther that they rarely demand lise of the By Eileen Morris I)cdal so that they would be acccssible to thc harpsichord and small organs. I'IERRE DJ\ NDRIEU JEAN.FRANCOIS DANDRIEU Noels / 0 Filii, chamo" tit Sni,,' Jacques I Stabal Mater r:t Carilltuu / Noils, 0 Filii, Cllaruons de Selint Jacqlltts d Carillons. I.e talll exlr~me,,' l~ TOil' ralll, augrnenlt! I d Extre ment vaTU. et mis /1ollr l'Orgue / £t varie r.t m;s po"r l'Cf'gue et ftt dnlluin. POIlT Ie Clovecin / par MT Auririe" I Par M. Darrcfr;eu, orgrmiste rlu Roi ttl Pri lre et Organiste (Ie Sl Rart/uUem)'. / tie Sa;"t,lIft!cft!ric. Nouvelle edition Ttt tille, corr;gee et augme"tce tic nouvelles Chez I I'AUIi!UT, TlU SIt: A,wt: pr~s Ie Palais dll Daup";'1 I Lc Sf Boivin riie variations tant sur ftts anciells Noels qUtt sur les nOllveaux. I'rix 9 /iv. A Par;s SI flonori d la R ~glt: d'Dr. au.Y adrtsscs ordi"aires. The only modern edition containing a noel (set o[ \'ariations) that \\·as defi· Noels, edited by Gaston litaize and nitely writtell lly l'icrrc Dandricu is, 1 fe:1.O Donms (Paris: Editioll~ lIIU5icalcs beliel'e, L'Orgllt! parisien sot" Ie rcgJlt! cle 13 Schola Canlomm ct de 101 l"rOCUle de Louis Xl If, edited by Norben Du Gencralc de mllsiqlle, 1955. L'Organish: fourcq (Fr:mUurt: Wilhelm H:mscn, Lilurgiqllc #19·20), 1956) . jcan.Fram;ois Dandrieu was thc son Pierre: Dandrieu was a priest and, or jean Dandriell, a grain merchant. from at least 1691, organist at Saint and his wife, Fram;oisc Rondcau, He Darth~lcmy in Paris, where he was suc w:J.s one of fh'e children and his ~isler. ceeded by his nephew, jean·Fr:lIlf;ois lcanne.Fran(ois. was 31so a talcnted or. Dandrieu. ganist. Vcry littlc clse is known aoout his Accortling 10 8runoh..l and SOIIIC other lire, except ror an anccdote rclalctl by scholars, Jcan-Fran(ois w:tS ~ student u Andre Pirro. It $CCIIIS lhat Louis Mar of jean. naptiste Morean, hilt Durourcq chand, the \'irtuoso orbranist, wanted speculates as to whelher hc cuuld have the position as organist of Saint· liar studied with Mayeux or possibly e,'en thclemy currcntly held by Pierre Dan· with Clcrambault. He W:lS a child prod· ddcn. In collaboration wiu. thc organ igy and it is said that he played the builder Henry Lcscloppc, he sent a let harpSichord at the age of rivc before ter to a vestryman of the church, claim Mme. Vielore dc lia" icre (10 whom he ing that the priest, Pierre Dandrieu, was dedicaled his Liurc lItt Sonatel en Trio having an aUair with "une £ille de in 1705) . mau\'aise vic," Claudine Tcxier.u Dan· On 28 January, 170-1 he was named drieu took the case to court and ob successor to Henry Mayeux, organist or tainnl the confeSSIOns of Marchand and Saint· Merry who had replaced his COliS' Lcscloppc. which were signed 22 March, in , Nicolas LeRcgne in li02 but becausc 1691 . of illness. could no longer function in Dandricu dlC..'ti in 1733, as indicated the position. On 19 jill)', 1705 Dandrieu by the Mercure in December, which w:as named the titular urganist, but be told of a mass cclebr.ued at the Oratory causc of thc estecm in which Mayeux for musicians who had died during was held. 100 livrcs of Dandrieu's 400. that year. His will was registered with livre salary was paid 10 Mayeux as a the notary Boil'in on 22 October. 1733. retircment pension, in which he nattlcs his nll'Ccs , jeanne On 17 Uecember, 1721 he nas named I;ran~ohc anti Maric·louise DalUJriell, 10 sllcct'cd jC3n Daptiste Uutcrne 3S or sole legatees, branist or the Chapel Ro)al (at an an Pierre Dandrieu is usually credited lI ual salary of 600 lil'res) , where he with the composition or some ,.lIrs ser !iCf\'ed with Gabriel Garnier, Fran(ois iellx which were included in the Dallard U'Agincollrt, Louis Marchand, and collection published 1697-1699. but Paul Fran~ois Couperin. In 1733 he was Brunold belie\'es them rather to he the namcd titular organist of Saint-Uar work of his nephew, jcan. fo" ra,,,;ois.d thelemy. following the death of his The work for winch he is known is his uncle, Pierre Dandrieu. Although some collection of \'arialions on nuels: Noiils, scholars arc admittedly uncertain ahout o Filii, chanson de Saint Jacques, S'a this fact, F~lix Raugel" decl3t'eS th3t bot Mater el Carillons. llrunold notcs Jean-Fran~is hOld been Pierrc's re\'er that it is without date or privilege, and sioner there for 12 years. asserts that the lIame "noivin" in the Dantlriell was a member of numerous title indicates publication after 1720." The organ of the Chapel Royal, Palace of Venaillll', 1710. organ contest juries. the moS[ famous He also mentions Utat the phl'3sc "Ie copied by Fttis.t' Research by Andre by jean-FTiln~ois, which he dates 1721- occasion in which he participated be tout rcvO et augmcnte" in the inscrip Pin'o (Archives des maUres de l'orgue, 1733.10 ing the contest for the church Made tion would secm to indicate that this is cited by Bonms) established that it was Paul Brunold hails Pierre Dandricu's leine·en-la-Cite in 1700. On this occa a second edition. The date commonly written, not by jC3.n·Fran~ois, but by collection of noel \ilriation, along with sion the judges, Nicolas Cigault. Rachel gil'en for this work, 1714, is based on his uncle, Pierre. Following this dcclar.t.- that of Louis·Claude Daquin, as the de Montalan, and Dandrieu declared a. "privilegc," transcribed 7 September, tioll, it was 3crepted that the only book most important of such collections pro- Jran.Phi11ipe Ramcau the winner. but lil-l, to " "Sicur Dandrieu." Since the or noels by a " Dandrieu" W35 that by tlueed by the Freudt keyboard school, he could not accept the position because titles of other ecclesiastics are properly Pierre (copies of whid, arc located in but he admits lhat "He has less bril- he was unwilling 10 give up his other nola ted in the records, Bonfilst' sees no two libraries in Paris, the Biblioth~que lance than Daquin. he has more willing· reason for the rerorder to have substi Nationale 3nd lhe Bibliotht:que du ness, hc is nai\'c and a little dull and pl3ces (which was rcquired by the ves tuted "Ie Sieur" for "L'Abb~" in this Conscn'atoirc).·' gauche, his art thus is in agreement try of this particular church) and the particular casc. Recent rCSC'arch b)' jean Don£ils, how- with all these ruslie tunes,'''l Felix Rau- post was awarded to Louis·Antoine Dar. This "olume of nocl variations was C\'cr, has re\'ealcd thal while the uncle. gel describes Dandrieu's works as 'well nel. It is also known that Dandrieu su 10llg attributed to jean.Fran~is Dan indeed, wrOle a book of noel vari3tions, fitted to the musical taste of the higher drieu, based on information initially his nephew, Jean.Fran~ois. did as well. social classes on the e'\'e of the Re· pervised the rebuilding of some organs. gil'cn by Titon du Tillet (in the first Donms has unco,'ered in a library in gene}' ..... and frequently "judged" them once the- supplemcnt to "Pamasse Fransnis") and DruMCls the collcction of noel vari3tions Pierre varies 41 nocls, producing a (Co"li,Jued, page 3) Restoration and History THE DIAPASON Established it! 1909 On pagl.'S ~m·2 7 of the Nm"cmbcr issue of Music, The A.G.O . and R ,C.CO. Mag, azine. the M. P. Muller comp;m )' ad",-'rlisn the (ollo"'ing in bold hcadliMs: "Who An International Montla'y D ttJO t ~ d the Orgnn nnw em Teslorc Skinner's ol'J;an!l? ~mllct' em. And does, whh a Uc<tioll." "'hhum '0 lilt Harpsichord and Church M usic shooting anlugoni"lic d:lTl'i at the ~ml1er cmnpam' wilh impunity, I feel strongly IIml the impliCllions of this ad,'crtisclllcnt IIlUst be nddn'SSC."I1 sc.' riOU5I)'. I do ha\'c a strong and ahiding res[lCct ror the Muller comp;'"y. their work and their hi510'1', fdilor ami it is not my intcntion here 10 spark n n :UI)' argument netr to malign their JANUARY, 1914 ROBERT SCHUNEMAN good work, hut rather 10 bring some k.'rious thought 10 a prohlt.·JI1 that rcccin'S little 3U('lIlioll. FEATURES CompOsOn 01 French Noel VariatlolU in the 17th IDId DOROTHY ROSER 11th Ce.,turle•• Pari II by EU_II. Morris Guenlher As an cxmnplc of how 1\lCiJlcr So')'! it can "fC!UOrc" an organ, the ad\'crtiscmcnt 1.