Pierre du Mage (1674-1751)
- Suite du premier ton (1708)
Performers: Pierre Bardon (orgue)
Further info: Organ works by D'Andrieu, Guilan, Du Mage
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French organist and composer. He was organist of the collegiate church
of Saint Quentin from 1703 to 1710, and then of Laon Cathedral until
1719 when, weary of the chapter’s insistence on the letter of his
contract, he gave up his career as a professional musician and became a
civil servant. His only extant work is a Livre d’orgue contenant une
suite du premier ton (1708), dedicated to the chapter of Saint Quentin.
Another Livre d’orgue, presented to the chapter of Laon Cathedral in
1712, has never been traced. The extant Livre d’orgue contains eight
short pieces: Plein jeu, Fugue, Trio, Tierce en taille, Basse de
Trompette, Récit, Duo and Grand jeu. In his dedication, Dumage describes
these as his first compositions and says that he modelled them on the
examples of the renowned Louis Marchand, his former teacher. The pieces
are entirely representative of French organ music around 1700 in their
increasing emphasis on exterior expression and elegance, a tendency
which reached its musically most convincing statement in the Livre
d’orgue of Louis-Nicolas Clérambault of 1710.
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