René Quignard
  • j13rice
    Posts: 36
    I've become aware of this late 19th-early 20th French composer René Quignard, who supposedly has a collection of organ music based on Gregorian chant. I can only find brief references to it. Does anyone know who publishes his music? Is it in public domain (if so, will someone post it on imslp.org!!). Does anyone know where to get his music? Thanks!
  • DougS
    Posts: 793
    His stuff is around. Baylor, St. John's in MN, and Mayrlhurst in OR seem to have a good representation. The pieces you are thinking of were apparently published by GIA in the Toledo days. Some are in public domain if copyrights weren't renewed.
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  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,574
    I get more hits by searching for

    Jean-René Quignard

    Here is a Netherlands wikipedia page ...
    http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-René_Quignard
    which probably lists the item you are looking for.

    At least with the complete composer name
    and a better idea of the score title you are seeking
    others might be better able to assist.

    Contemporaneous music score covers?
    Google searches limited to French language pages?
    Thanked by 1VegezziBossi1950
  • lindholm1913
    Posts: 3
    l'Organiste Grégorien, originally published by the Procure Générale in Paris in 1928. As far as I know, there are volumes for Christmas, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart, Assumption and other Marian feasts, and All Saints; they include an abundance of short-ish preludes ‒ Entrée, Offertoire, Elévation, Communion, Sortie for mass, and then Entrée, five psalm antiphons, Magnificat antiphon and Sortie for Vespers ‒ on the propers. I've been lucky enough to find (and, occasionally, have the chance to use) all of them, except the mass for Pentecost.

    You'll find my e-mail address in the Quignard page on my site: feel free to get in touch.

    http://halfdane.be/topic.php?id=285&method=A-Z&letter=Q#
    Thanked by 1igneus
  • a_j_hommerding
    Posts: 1
    The suites for Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost are still available; published in one volume by Editions Schola Cantorum.
    Thanked by 2Paul F. Ford igneus
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 307
    Off topic. I'm surprised to see Marylhurst listed. The school closed, and the Shoen Library contents were auctioned off. Very sad, as my father was on the library staff when the new building opened, and I spent a LOT of time there. Somehow, I missed the auction, so I have only a very small number of momentos.
  • VegezziBossi1950
    Posts: 1
    I am taking the liberty of reopening the blog on Quignard for two reasons, the first to ask for help from those of you who own the collection L’Organiste Gregorien, as I am missing the book for the feasts of the Blessed Virgin, a substantial part of the Book for the feast of All Saints,( missing Introito for the Mass and all verses for Vespers) the book for the Ascension and the one for the feast of the Sacred Heart.
    The links to find these scores are now too old.
    I would like to point out that this author shows an evolution of his compositional style in a fairly short period of time since between 1912 and 1934 he published both some collections of pieces for the liturgy in anthological volumes and scattered pieces in the musical inserts of two liturgical music magazines, la Petite Maitrise and the Revue musicales de Saint Cecile.
    In the first magazine, the most interesting pieces are certainly those published between 1929 and 1934, especially the prelude sur le theme du Kyrie Alme Pater and the cantilene sur le theme du Kyrie Missa de Angelis.
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