page 139:
One of the most persistent and perhaps the most effective
advocate for the use of Gregorian melodies in organ music
was Alexandre Guilmant. Like his teacher Lemmens and his
colleague Gigout, Guilmant sought a greater unity between
organ and choral music in the liturgy. In 1895 he explained:
"In the alternating pieces it is necessary for the organist
to play the Gregorian melody or, at least, versets based on
these themes. I think that there are very interesting things
to be written in the polyphonic style with these old tonalities
and on such beautiful chants as these. The German organists have
composed pieces based on the melodies of chorales, forming a
particularly rich organ literature; shouldn't we do likewise
with our Catholic melodies?"
I have in front of me a newly acquired Ten Chorale Preludes on Gregorian hymns, for Organ by Flor Peeters (Opus 76).
David Hurd is different from Bob Hurd, right?
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