Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714)
- La Messe avec plain-chant des
'Deuxième livre d’Orgue contenant la Messe et les Hymnes de l’Église' (1667)
Performers: Jean Wolfs (organ); Schola Cantorum
Further info: Musique de Versailles
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French organist, composer and theorist. He came from a prosperous
family; his father, a ‘bourgeois de Paris’, was farmer to the bishop. He
most likely received his education at the University of Paris (1661).
He was appointed organist of St. Sulpice from the early 1650s, and was
also made one of the 4 organists of the royal chapel (1678), master of
music to the queen (1681), and head of music at the Maison Royale de St.
Louis, the convent school in St. Cyr for young women of the nobility.
He married in 1668 and had one son. His will, dated 1711, gives a
detailed picture of the comfortable circumstances of his last years and
of his piety and devotion to the church. As a composer, his three
'Livres d'orgue' were the first published works to establish the
distinctive styles and forms of the French organ school of the late 17th
and early 18th centuries. As a theorist, he was mainly praised for his
'Traité de la composition de musique' (1667), widely known outside
France.
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