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GIGOUT: Grand Chœur dialogué, arranged for two reed organs

Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) studied and later taught at the École Niedermeyer in Paris, and was titular organist at the Parisian church of St. Augustin for 62 years. During his first five years there, while the church and its pipe organ were being built, he played services on the harmonium in the crypt chapel. His Grand Chœur dialogué was the last of his “6 Pièces d’Orgue,” published in 1881; the piece was also published for harmonium solo. The music contrasts two different “choruses” of pipes or reeds, usually played on two different manuals. I arranged the music for single-manual harmonium and a larger organ-with-pedals, separating the two parts but also devising some interplay between the two performers. The instruments heard here are (left) a rare 3-manual-and-pedal reed organ built by the Mason & Hamlin firm of Boston, c. 1880, and (right) a six-rank chapel-model reed organ built by Seybold of Chicago, c. 1904, retailed by Lyon & Healy. The organs stand in the Fayette Opera House in Fayette, Ohio, for which our friend Don Glasgow restored the Mason & Hamlin some years ago. This video shows Pam Robison and Michael Hendron performing in the closing concert of the 2019 Gathering of the Reed Organ Society. Thanks to Pam for the collaboration, Don for his great restoration work, Amadeusz for expert page turning, and Bill for filming. Recorded 20 October 2019.