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Price: $650.00

                 SOME LIGHT STAINING AND FOXING, OVERALL EXCELLENT CONDITION

Exceedingly scarce autographed folio bound collection of first edition scores by the great Swiss born, French composer of religious music and opera.  One of the scores is also autographed by his pupil, the organist - composer Eugéne Gigout. Niedermeyer, who is best known for his tenor solo, “Pieta Signore,” was a prolific composer of church music and operas during the mid 19th Century; he composed in the “ancient” style and some of his works were often mistook for the baroque, “Pieta Signore” not excepted was often thought to be that of Alessandro Stradella. (Niedermeyer composed an opera about the composer.)  The compilation of scores in this collection, bound in oil paper and linen are examples of his religious works.

The listing of scores is as follows:

1. Marche Religieuse pour Orgue, Heugel plate 2931, 5 pp incl. cover

2. Agnus Dei de la Messe No. 1, Heugel plate 2053, 5 pp. incl. cover

3. Kyrie de la Messe No. 1, Heugel plate 2051, 7 pp. incl cover

4. Gloria de la Messe No 1, Heugel plate 2073, 9 pp. incl cover

5. Sanctus de la Messe No. 1, Heugel plate 2052, 3 pp. incl cover

6. Offertoire, Heugel plate 2515, 3 pp

7. Messe Solemmelle a quatre Voix, d'Orchestre ou d'Orgue, Richalt,  71 pp inscribed on frontispiece by Eugene Gigout

8. Fugue en Re Mineur pour Orgue, Heugel plate 2728, 5 pp.

9. Deux Antiennes pour Orgue, Heugel plate 2783, 2 groups of 3, composer’s proof autographed on the top right of the hand written frontispiece by Niedermeyer with a few minor corrections, “Bon a tirer” or Good to print.

 

Niedermeyer’s leagacy is alive and well today in church music throughout the world and his legacy is further cemented through his teaching.  Niedermeyer opened the L’École Niedermeyer in Paris 1853, which became the L’École de musique classique after his death in 1880. Gigout, Fauré, Alexandre Georges, Alexandre Messanger were but a few of the famed pupils which received their musical education through his school.  Saint-Säens only professional teaching position was at Niedermeyer’s School.  Today, the Conservatoire Niedermeyer d’Issy-les-Moulineaux outside of Paris also bears his name.

 

Gigout was both a pupil and then a professor at the L’École Niedermeyer.  He succeeded Alexandre Guilmant as the organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911 and taught the legendary Marcel Dupré.  He was the regular organist at the Church of St. Augustine in Paris for 62 years!  Gigout was also a prolific composer of organ works!

Quite a scarce and unusual collection, much lighter than the scans!

 

*I wish to acknowledge our colleague John Lubrano for his kind assistance in providing an exemplar of a scarce Niedermeyer autograph!   

 

 

 

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