Course 20

Organ repertoire by Jehan Alain & Gaston Litaize by Prof. Eric Lebrun

Dates: July 27-31 (2nd week)

Description
As in the first week of the academy, in this second week there will be also a focus on the music of Jehan Alain. Eric Lebrun combines Alain’s music with the repertoire of Gaston Litaize, an organist and composer who was born just two years before Alain. Litaize, the blind organist who died 35 years ago, trained many organists who are now acclaimed artists worldwide, but, unlike Alain’s, his fascinating compositions are less well known. Unfairly so! A good reason to add this course to this year’s Haarlem Summer Academy, with one of his pupils as an expert.

Repertoire List
Jehan Alain
Complete organ works

Gaston Litaize
12 pièces pour Grand Orgue (éditions Leduc)
24 Préludes liturgiques (Schola Cantorum)
Prélude et danse fuguée (Leduc)
Epiphanie (Europart-Ligugé)
Reges Tharsis (Schott)
Deux trios (Pro organo)

Choose which pieces from this list you want to prepare and let us know by sending an email to office@organfestival.nl. Please note that the playing time per student is limited and that we cannot guarantee that you can play all your preferred pieces. Nevertheless, choose approximately 3-5 pieces so that the professor can compile an attractive course program.
If we do not receive notification of your prepared pieces, your registration will be changed to passive.

This course can not be combined with:
[4a] Organ repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach (Bryndorf)
[4c] Organ repertoire by Hendrik Andriessen & Albert de Klerk (Van Doeselaar)

(4b)

About Eric Lebrun
A former student of Gaston Litaize, Eric Lebrun completed his studies at the Conservatory of Paris. He graduated with the highest honors including a first prize in the organ class of Michel Chapuis. He has been an award winner and finalist in several international competitions (organ, composition, chamber music) and in 1990 was named titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll instrument at the Parisian church Saint Antoine des Quinze-Vingts. There he recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Maurice Duruflé and César Franck. In collaboration with Marie-Ange Leurent, Eric Lebrun has formed a popular organ duo for four hands. He also performs as a soloist with various orchestras and vocal groups. He has given the inaugural performance of many compositions for organ, some of them written especially for him.
Eric Lebrun has composed about fifty works, and is professor of organ at the Conservatory of Regional Musical Influence at Saint-Maur des Fossés and regularly gives master classes in Europa, U.S.A., Mexico. He is the founder and president of the Association Gaston Litaize. In 2016 he published a new biography of Johan Sebastian Bach (edited by Bleu-Nuit), and later, Debussy (2018) and Fauré (2023).