Marcel Dupré - Organ improvisation on Beethoven's piano sonata No.12 Op.26 "funeral march". скачать в хорошем качестве

Marcel Dupré - Organ improvisation on Beethoven's piano sonata No.12 Op.26 "funeral march".

Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular organist of Saint-Ouen Abbey from 1911 til his death and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when Marcel was 10 years old. His mother Marie-Alice Dupré-Chauvière was a cellist who also gave music lessons, and his paternal uncle Henri Auguste Dupré was a violinist and violist. Both of his grandfathers, Étienne-Pierre Chauvière (maître de chapelle at Saint-Patrice in Rouen and an operatic bass) and Aimable Auguste-Pompée Dupré (who was also a friend of Cavaillé-Coll) were also organists. Having already taken lessons from Alexandre Guilmant (due to him appealing to his father), he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, where he studied with Louis Diémer and Lazare Lévy (piano), Guilmant and Louis Vierne (organ), and Charles-Marie Widor (fugue and composition). In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata, Psyché. Twelve years later, he was appointed professor of organ performance and improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire, a position he held until 1954. Succeeding Widor in 1934 as titular organist at St. Sulpice in Paris, Dupré retained this position for the rest of his life; thus it happened that, since Widor had been there for more than six decades, the position changed hands only once in a century. In 1937, he was engaged to perform at the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. The same year, Widor died. This improvisation of Beethoven's funeral march was made at Saint Sulpice Church in Paris. It was used in the 1936 movie "Beethoven's Great Love" "Un grand amour de Beethoven" a french historical musical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt. It portrays the career of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Britain and the United States it was sometimes alternatively titled The Life and Loves of Beethoven. It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. First time I heard this improvisation I was amazed by the power of the sound. I tried to find a record but nothing was existing. So I decided to make this video using some cuts I could extract. Music : Organ : Marcel Dupré St. Sulpice Church Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Grand Pipe Organ (1862). #classicalmusic #beethoven #organmusic