Jean Guillou

Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony...

Jean Guillou did not change a single note for this arrangement. He just distributed the different parts to the manuals and the pedal in a way that guarantees a clear and varied registration in harmony...

Orpheus is one of 12 symphonic poems composed by Franz Liszt between 1848 and 1858. Liszt regarded these compositions as representing a higher form of musical creation. Their genesis in what he descri...

The third movement (Allegro molto vivace) from Tchaikovsky's 'Symphonie pathétique' is - though not specially designated as such - a typical scherzo and, what is more, actually one of the most brillia...

Jean Guillou is regarded as an important organist and composer. As such, he has created a comprehensive oeuvre, especially for solo instrument(s) and organ, including Intermezzo Op. 17 composed in Ham...

Jean Guillou is regarded as an important organist and composer. As such, he has created a comprehensive oeuvre, especially for solo instrument(s) and organ, including Intermezzo Op. 17 composed in Ham...

In Impulso Jean Guillou regards the flute as a person who appears and asks a short, yet compelling question in front of the public. This question is followed by a statement. And when the question is a...

Jean Guillou, one of the most important organ composers of our time, studied with Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Convervatoire. Following a several-year stay in Berlin...

Die Ruhe und innige Tiefe der Stille, ihre grenzenlose Unendlichkeit, die innere Seelenruhe und Leidenschaft des Dichters im Vergessen sowie das unsichtbare Drama der Sehnsucht: all dies versucht die...

Gerard Manley Hopkins was reputed to be a poet of semantic ambiguity and, in the opinion of Guillou, therefore comes closest to the art of musical expression. Guillou has already 'translated' 'Peace'...

Jean Guillou is one of the most important organ virtuosos and composers of today. A pupil of Dupré, Duruflé and Messiaen, he embodies the living tradition of French organ music.

The French organist and composer Jean Guillou (*1930) calls his own cycle 'Colloque' in which the grand seigneur among the virtuoso organists wants to present an exchange of ideas, while juxtaposing c...

A musical instrument has its own personality, with a voice that can provoke reactions, give rise to dramatic impulses and awaken colours and moods; it is capable of articulating and responding to all...

A musical instrument has its own personality, with a voice that can provoke reactions, give rise to dramatic impulses and awaken colours and moods; it is capable of articulating and responding to all...

Colloque, colloquy or symposium, is a term used in reference to Erasmus, but of course also to Plato and, closer to us, Paul Valéry. In this piece, instead of characters who speak to each other, there...

Colloque, colloquy or symposium, is a term used in reference to Erasmus, but of course also to Plato and, closer to us, Paul Valéry. In this piece, instead of characters who speak to each other, there...

Jean Guillou's 'Hymnus' Op. 72 was written in memory of Father Jaap Keulen, a friend of the composer. Hymns are traditional, chordal, solemn chants. The piece has adopted this style by consisting main...