Auguste Chérion's "Messe de Sainte Cécile"
  • CGM
    Posts: 809
    Auguste Chérion (1854-1904) was a French composer, a priest (also known as Abbé Chérion), and the successor of Fauré at the Madeleine in Paris. He was a popular and important composer of church music in his day, and back in the mists of time some friends of mine frequently sang his Messe de Sainte Cécile for SATB choir + organ. Their scores were lost and they approached me to ask whether I might be able to help them find fresh sheet music.

    I was unfamiliar with the composer and the composition, and so asked a couple eminent musicologists I know, both of whom replied that this piece appears to exist in print form only in perhaps one European library — it has not yet been digitized and added to any online collections.

    Would anyone here happen to have a copy of this Mass setting that they'd be willing to scan and share?
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,310
    One library that appears to have a copy (per an online database entry) is:

    Strasbourg, France

    Bibliothèque Musicale de l'Union Sainte Cécile
    Tel. +33 (0)3 88 21 24 46. Email : contact@liturgie-diocese-alsace.org
    Consultable under : P 4324

    Might be worth an email.
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 392
    Not what you are seeking, but he composed an excellent setting of the Anima Christi.
    https://shorturl.at/04ZHD
    IMSLP has a different mass that is quite interesting. Messe de l'Oratoire. The first page of the Credo is something I'd use as a sixty second organ concluding voluntary!
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  • Andrew_Malton
    Posts: 1,251
    https://shorturl.at/04ZHD
    Thanked by 3ServiamScores Roborgelmeister CHGiffen
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