MOURLAN: Verset & Offertoire (F major), played on Bertheaux harmonium скачать в хорошем качестве

MOURLAN: Verset & Offertoire (F major), played on Bertheaux harmonium

Louis Mourlan was a 19th-century, Romantic French composer, organist and harmoniumiste, based in Toulouse. In 1870, Mourlan was named titulaire of a new Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ in the parish church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Bagnères-de-Luchon, and Mourlan was later Maître de Chapelle at Notre-Dame de la Dalbade in Toulouse. All I have found are his Op. 11 “Les Voix Saintes de l’Organiste,” dedicated to the Archbishop of Toulouse, and his Op. 17 "Le Livre d'Or des Organistes," inscribed to Pope Léon XIII "aux premiers jours de Votre Pontificat," ergo c. 1878. These two books present sets of pieces grouped together by tonality, most comprising enough pieces for a Messe Basse (a low mass: a church service with eucharist, and an organ, but without a choir). This Verset and Offertoire are from the F major set in the Livre d'Or. The instrument is a small French harmonium, built by Bertheaux Frères in the Belleville area of Paris, probably around the 1860s. It belongs to the Bethany United Methodist Church in San Francisco, California. The instrument has one and a half ranks of 8’ reeds, at the original A=440 tuning and voicing; I play the Verset with the foundation rank, and add the treble Celeste for the Offertoire. Performed by Michael Hendron; recorded 30 August 2025.