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'''Adrien Rougier''' (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1984) was a French [[organist]], [[Organ building|organ builder]], [[Conducting|conductor]] and composer.
'''Adrien Rougier''' (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1984) was a French [[organist]], [[Organ building|organ builder]], [[Conducting|conductor]] and composer.


== Life ==
== Life ==
Born in [[Vernaison]], issu d'une famille de soyeux lyonnais, Rougier étudie le piano puis [[Organ (instrument)|organ]] with [[Édouard_Commette]], organiste titulaire de la [[Lyon Cathedral]]. Il poursuit ensuite ses études musicales et apprend la [[musical composition]] with [[Georges Martin Witkowski]], fondateur de la Société des Grands Concerts. Mobilisé pour son service militaire dès 1912 puis au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, il sera blessé à plusieurs reprises dans les trenches of [[Verdun]] avant de rejoindre l'[[Armée française d'Orient]] until the end of the war.
Born in [[Vernaison]], to a family of silk merchants in [[Lyon]], Rougier studied the piano and then the [[Organ (instrument)|organ]] with [[Édouard Commette]], organist at the [[Lyon Cathedral]]. He then continued his musical studies and learned [[musical composition]] with [[Georges Martin Witkowski]], founder of the Société des Grands Concerts.<ref>[https://www.lesgrandsconcerts.com/ Société des Grands Concerts] Home page</ref> Mobilized for military service in 1912 and during the First World War, he was wounded several times in the trenches of the [[Battle of Verdun]] before joining the [[Armée française d'Orient|Armée d'Orient]] and serving until the end of the war.


On his return from the front, he was went back to music and entered the [[Schola Cantorum de Paris]] with Maurice Sergent, [[Vincent d'Indy]] and especially [[Louis Vierne]] as teachers, whose later's influence would be predominant in his compositions for organ. The latter also commissioned him to create his Triptych for organ Op. 58<ref>''Louis Vierne : la vie et l’œuvre'', by [[Bernard Gavoty]], Buchet/Chastel, 1980</ref> with orchestra. In 1921, his [[symphonic poem]] ''Les Elfes'' won the prize of the [[musical composition]] of the Société des Grands Concerts, at the same time as a [[Sarabande]] by [[Pierre-Octave Ferroud]]<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=|title=Le Ménestrel, Volume 83, page 445|location=Paris|publisher=|year=1921}}</ref> and the following year he became conductor of the [[Hector Berlioz]] Symphony Concerts in [[Grenoble]].<ref>http://www.editions-rubin.com/rougier.html</ref> For the 1927/1928 musical season, he did not forget the Lyon scene alongside [[Paul Le Flem]], [[André Caplet]] and [[Jacques Ibert]] by premiering ''En marge de trois maîtres français''.
On his return from the front, he went back to music and entered the [[Schola Cantorum de Paris]] with Maurice Sergent, [[Vincent d'Indy]] and especially [[Louis Vierne]] as teachers, whose latter's influence would be predominant in his compositions for organ. The latter also commissioned him to create his Triptych for organ Op. 58<ref>''Louis Vierne : la vie et l’œuvre'', by [[Bernard Gavoty]], Buchet/Chastel, 1980</ref> with orchestra. In 1921, his [[symphonic poem]] ''Les Elfes'' won the prize of the musical composition of the Société des Grands Concerts, at the same time as a [[Sarabande]] by [[Pierre-Octave Ferroud]]<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|title=Le Ménestrel, Volume 83, page 445|location=Paris|year=1921}}</ref> and the following year he became conductor of the [[Hector Berlioz]] Symphony Concerts in [[Grenoble]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.editions-rubin.com/rougier.html|title=Editions Musicales Rubin}}</ref> For the 1927/1928 musical season, he did not forget the Lyon scene alongside [[Paul Le Flem]], [[André Caplet]] and [[Jacques Ibert]] by premiering ''En marge de trois maîtres français''.
Mais Rougier revient à son instrument de prédilection, the [[pipe organ]] et, après une expérience d'assistant à [[Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris|Church of Saint-Sulpice]] et de titulaire at the [[Dominican Order|Dominicains]] convent of the [[rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré]] in Paris<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adrien Rougier, illustrateur et défenseur des orgues de Lyon|url=http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2016/04/24/adrien-rougier-illustrateur-et-defenseur-des-orgues-de-lyon|accessdate= 22 November 2018}}</ref> he became a titular in several parishes in Lyon such as [[Saint Irenaeus Church, Lyon|Saint-Irénée]], [[Église Saint-Polycarpe|Saint-Polycarpe]] and [[Église Saint-Pothin|Saint-Pothin]]. Back from Paris in the 1920s, he stressed the importance and variety of the organ repertoire by [[Johann Sebastian_Bach|Bach]] with his former master, [[Édouard Commette]], who would later make reference recordings of the German master whose work was increasingly popular with the public<ref>"Aspects de la musique baroque et classique à Lyon et en France: Lyon et la musique du XVIe au XXe siècle", Daniel Paquette, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1989.
But Rougier returned to his favourite instrument, the [[pipe organ]] and, after an experience as assistant at the [[Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris|Church of Saint-Sulpice]] and as appointed organist at the [[Dominican Order|Dominicains]] convent of the [[rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré]] in Paris<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adrien Rougier, illustrateur et défenseur des orgues de Lyon|url=http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2016/04/24/adrien-rougier-illustrateur-et-defenseur-des-orgues-de-lyon|access-date= 22 November 2018}}</ref> he became a titular in several parishes in Lyon such as [[Saint Irenaeus Church, Lyon|Saint-Irénée]], [[Église Saint-Polycarpe|Saint-Polycarpe]] and [[Église Saint-Pothin|Saint-Pothin]]. Back from Paris in the 1920s, he stressed the importance and variety of the organ repertoire by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]] with his former master, [[Édouard Commette]], who would later make reference recordings of the German master whose work was increasingly popular with the public.<ref>"Aspects de la musique baroque et classique à Lyon et en France: Lyon et la musique du XVIe au XXe siècle", Daniel Paquette, {{ill|Presses universitaires de Lyon|fr}}, 1989.
</ref> Titular of the great organ of the [[Église Saint-Pothin]], he invited in particular to the gallery [[Marcel Dupré]], [[Pierre Cochereau]], [[Maurice Duruflé]], [[Gaston Litaize]], [[Jeanne Demessieux]], [[Jean Langlais]] and [[Marie-Claire Alain]]<ref>{{Cite news|language= fr|author1=Jacques Renault|title=Le grand orgue de Saint-Pothin|journal=Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon|year=1994}}</ref> It was at his request that Duruflé's [[Requiem (Duruflé)|Requiem]] was first performed for solo organ with the composer at the pulpit, the first for large orchestra taking place in 1947, [[Salle Gaveau]], in Paris. In 1937, he was one of the members of the "Cercle du Luth". with Édouard Commette, Ennemond Trillat, Jean Bouvard, [[Robert Proton de la Chapelle|Robert de Fragny]], Ferrier-Jourdain, Pierre Giriat, Marcel Paponaud, Marcel Pehu, Jean Reynaud and Victor Richer, a musical society in Lyon that disappeared during the Second World War<ref>{{Cite book|language= fr|author1=Henry Prunières|title=La Revue musicale, Volume 19|location=Paris|publisher=Éditions Richard-Masse|year=1938|}}</ref> He also participated in the premieres of many works by contemporary artists including [[Jean Langlais]].
</ref> Titular of the great organ of the [[Église Saint-Pothin]], he invited in particular [[Marcel Dupré]], [[Pierre Cochereau]], [[Maurice Duruflé]], [[Gaston Litaize]], [[Jeanne Demessieux]], [[Jean Langlais]] and [[Marie-Claire Alain]] to the gallery .<ref>{{Cite news|language= fr|author1=Jacques Renault|title=Le grand orgue de Saint-Pothin|journal=Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon|year=1994}}</ref> It was at his request that [[Requiem (Duruflé)|Duruflé's Requiem]] was first performed for solo organ with the composer at the pulpit, the first for large orchestra taking place in 1947, [[Salle Gaveau]], in Paris.


In 1937, he was one of the members of the "Cercle du Luth". with Édouard Commette, Ennemond Trillat, Jean Bouvard, [[Robert Proton de la Chapelle|Robert de Fragny]], Ferrier-Jourdain, Pierre Giriat, Marcel Paponaud, Marcel Pehu, Jean Reynaud and Victor Richer, a musical society in Lyon that disappeared during the Second World War.<ref>{{Cite book|language= fr|author1=Henry Prunières|title=La Revue musicale, Volume 19|location=Paris|publisher=Éditions Richard-Masse|year=1938}}</ref> He also participated in the premieres of many works by contemporary artists including [[Jean Langlais]].
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For his 51 stops organ of St. Pothin Church, he implemented his invention, a device for calling combinations called "Acribès"<ref>''Grande encyclopédie de Lyon et des communes du Rhône", volume 2, by André Pelletier, Horvath, 1980''</ref> One of these combiners had been installed on the grandstand organ of the [[Lyon Cathedral|primatial Saint-Jean de Lyon]] when it was reinstalled in 1935-1936<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=[Reveyron, Durand & Repellin 2011] Nicolas Reveyron (dir.), Jean-Dominique Durand (dir.), Didier Repellin (dir.) and Michel Cacaud (dir).|title=Lyon, la grâce d'une cathédrale|location=Strasbourg|publisher=La Nuée bleue|year=2011|pages =512 p.|isbn=978-2716507899}}</ref> This combiner is still in operation in the organ of the Saint-André church in [[Tarare]]<ref>{{Cite web|language=fr|title=L'orgue Saint-André se refait une beauté|url=http://www.le-pays.fr/region/edition/edition-loire-et-rhone/tarare/2016/04/14/l-orgue-saint-andre-se-refait-une-beaute_11869772.html|website=le-pays.fr|date=14 April 2016|accessdate = 22 November 2018}}</ref> while another copy is located at the {{ill|Musée suisse de l'orgue|fr}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=Jean-Jacques Gramm|title=L'Acribès du Musée Suisse de l'Orgue|location=Neuchâtel|publisher=La Tribune de l'Orgue|year=2008|pages= 25-26}}</ref>


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For his 51-stop organ of [[Église Saint-Pothin|Saint-Pothin]]'s Church, he implemented his invention, a device for calling combinations called "Acribès".<ref>''Grande encyclopédie de Lyon et des communes du Rhône", volume 2, by André Pelletier, Horvath, 1980''</ref> One of these combiners had been installed on the grandstand organ of the [[Lyon Cathedral|primatial Saint-Jean de Lyon]] when it was reinstalled in 1935-1936.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr |author=Reveyron, Nicolas |author2=Durand, Jean-Dominique |author3=Repellin, Didier |author4=Cacaud, Michel |title=Lyon, la grâce d'une cathédrale|location=Strasbourg|publisher=La Nuée bleue|year=2011 |isbn=978-2716507899}}</ref> This combiner is still in operation in the organ of the Saint-André church in [[Tarare]]<ref>{{Cite web|language=fr|title=L'orgue Saint-André se refait une beauté|url=http://www.le-pays.fr/region/edition/edition-loire-et-rhone/tarare/2016/04/14/l-orgue-saint-andre-se-refait-une-beaute_11869772.html|website=le-pays.fr|date=14 April 2016|access-date = 22 November 2018}}</ref> while another copy is located at the {{ill|Musée suisse de l'orgue|fr}}.<ref>{{Cite book|language=fr|author1=Jean-Jacques Gramm|title=L'Acribès du Musée Suisse de l'Orgue|location=Neuchâtel|publisher=La Tribune de l'Orgue|year=2008|pages= 25–26}}</ref>
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A professor at the {{ill|Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon|fr|3=Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon|lt=Conservatoire de Lyon}}, where Georges Aloy, Patrice Caire, [[Maurice Clerc]], Paul Coueffë, [[Georges Guillard]], Jean-Pierre Millioud, Jean-Luc Salique, Marcel Godard among others were his students<ref>{{Cite web|language=fr|title=Tradition - JARDIN A LA FRANCAISE - Éditions à Cœur Joie|url=http://edacj.musicanet.org/product_info.php?products_id=1058|website=edacj.musicanet.org|accessdate = 22 November 2018}}</ref> and Madeleine Jallifier,<ref>{{Cite web|title=St Joseph : Hommage à Madeleine Jalliffier|url=http://orgues.free.fr/stjoseph/mjalliffier.html|website=orgues.free.fr|accessdate = 22 November 2018}}</ref> Rougier was a tireless promoter of organ music in Lyon, which led him to create the Société des Amis de l'Orgue with

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Jean Bouvard, [[Norbert Dufourcq]], Marcel Péhu and abbott [[François Boursier]],<ref>"Les Orgues de Lyon", Pierre-Marie Guéritey and Michelle Guéritey, Association régionale de diffusion et d'information musicales, 1992 - 452 pages</ref> and to devote research to the electronic combiner and organ building<ref>''Guide de la musique d'orgue'', under the direction of [[Gilles Cantagrel]], [[Fayard]], 2012</ref> His contribution to the restitution of the sounds of the organs of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] led him to make both a biographical and technical synthesis of the works of the [[Leipzig]]er [[Kantor]]]. With regard to organ restoration, he called for restorations that respected as much as possible the original historical instrument.<ref>''L'orgue classique français", Jean Fellot, Edisud, 1993''</ref> In 1974 he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great]] by [[Alexandre Renard]], bishop of Lyon.
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A professor at the {{ill|Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon|fr|3=Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon|lt=Conservatoire de Lyon}}, where Georges Aloy, Patrice Caire, [[Maurice Clerc (organist)|Maurice Clerc]], Paul Coueffë, [[Georges Guillard]], Jean-Pierre Millioud, Jean-Luc Salique, Marcel Godard among others were his students<ref>{{Cite web|language=fr|title=Tradition - JARDIN A LA FRANCAISE - Éditions à Cœur Joie|url=http://edacj.musicanet.org/product_info.php?products_id=1058|website=edacj.musicanet.org|access-date = 22 November 2018}}</ref> as well as Madeleine Jallifier,<ref>{{Cite web|title=St Joseph : Hommage à Madeleine Jalliffier|url=http://orgues.free.fr/stjoseph/mjalliffier.html|website=orgues.free.fr|access-date = 22 November 2018}}</ref> Rougier was a tireless promoter of organ music in Lyon, which led him to create the Société des Amis de l'Orgue with
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Jean Bouvard, [[Norbert Dufourcq]], Marcel Péhu and abbott [[François Boursier]],<ref>"Les Orgues de Lyon", Pierre-Marie Guéritey and Michelle Guéritey, Association régionale de diffusion et d'information musicales, 1992 - 452 pages</ref> and to devote research to the electronic combiner and organ building.<ref>''Guide de la musique d'orgue'', under the direction of [[Gilles Cantagrel]], [[Fayard]], 2012</ref> His contribution to the restitution of the sounds of the organs of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] led him to make both a biographical and technical synthesis of the works of the [[Leipzig]]er [[Cantor (Christianity)|Kantor]]. With regard to organ restoration, he called for restorations that respected as much as possible the original historical instrument.<ref>''L'orgue classique français", Jean Fellot, Edisud, 1993''</ref> In 1974 he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great]] by [[Alexandre Renard]], bishop of Lyon.


He was the brother of astronomer and physicist {{ill|Gilbert Rougier|fr}}, and {{ill|Octave Simon|fr}}'s cousin.
He was the brother of astronomer and physicist {{ill|Gilbert Rougier|fr}}, and {{ill|Octave Simon|fr}}'s cousin.


== Works ==
== Works ==
* ''Les Elfes, poème symphonique pour orchestre'', 1921 (créé par l'Orchestre philharmonique de Grenoble, 19 April 1922)
* ''Les Elfes, poème symphonique pour orchestre'', 1921 (premiered by the Orchestre philharmonique de Grenoble, 19 April 1922)
* ''En marge de trois maîtres français, pour orchestre'' (créé le 9 novembre 1928, salle Rameau à Lyon, par l'orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon dirigé par l'auteur).
* ''En marge de trois maîtres français, pour orchestre'' (premiered on 9 November 1928, salle Rameau à Lyon, by the orchestra of the Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by the author).
* ''Trois Esquisses pour l'Odyssée: Ulysse, Calypso, Les Jeux chez les Phéaciens'', pour orchestre (créées le 4 mars 1934, salle Rameau à Lyon, par l'orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by [[Jean Witkowski]]).
* ''Trois Esquisses pour l'Odyssée: Ulysse, Calypso, Les Jeux chez les Phéaciens'', for orchestra (premiered March 1934, salle Rameau in Lyon, by the orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by [[Jean Witkowski]]).
* ''Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano'' (éditée chez Jobert, Paris)
* ''Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano'' (published at Jobert, Paris)
* ''Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano'' : ''La Maison du Matin, Le Petit Palémon'', dedicated to [[Suzanne Balguerie]] and ''Les Constellations'' dédiée à son frère Gilbert Rougier, (éditée chez Jobert, Paris, 1936)
* ''Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano'' : ''La Maison du Matin, Le Petit Palémon'', dedicated to [[Suzanne Balguerie]] and ''Les Constellations'' dedicated to her brother Gilbert Rougier, (published by Jobert, Paris, 1936)
* ''Prélude,'' extrait de la ''Suite Française,'' pour piano, par les Membres du Luth (published at Béal, in Lyon)
* ''Prélude,'' extract of ''Suite Française,'' for piano, by the Members of the Luth (published at Béal, in Lyon)
* ''Elégie-lamento pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Elégie-lamento pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Arabesque pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Arabesque pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Elevation en ré bémol majeur pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Elevation en ré bémol majeur pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Interlude en ut mineur pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Interlude en ut mineur pour orgue'' (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue'', créée en 1965 devant Son Eminence Alexandre Renard, archevêque de Lyon (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue'', premiered in the presence of [[Alexandre Renard]], archbishop of Lyon (published by Rubin, Lyon)
* ''Petites pièces pour orgue''
* ''Petites pièces pour orgue''
* ''Berceuse pour violon et orgue''
* ''Berceuse pour violon et orgue''
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* ''J.-S. Bach, l'organiste et l'œuvre pour orgue'' by Adrien Rougier.<ref>''Les Orgues du Rhône'', Yves Jaffrès, Éditions Compact, 1992</ref>
* ''J.-S. Bach, l'organiste et l'œuvre pour orgue'' by Adrien Rougier.<ref>''Les Orgues du Rhône'', Yves Jaffrès, Éditions Compact, 1992</ref>


== Discography ==
== Selected discography ==
* ''Berceuse pour violon et orgue'', by Georges Guillard (orgue de chœur) and Michel Dietz (violin), [[Saint-Louis-en-l'Île]] church in the [[Île de la Cité]], Disque Orgues Nouvelles No 6, 2009''.''
* ''Berceuse pour violon et orgue'', by Georges Guillard (choir organ) and Michel Dietz (violin), [[Saint-Louis-en-l'Île]] church in the [[Île Saint-Louis]], Disque Orgues Nouvelles No 6, 2009.
* ''Toccata et fugue'', by Georges Aloy, Lyon, [[Basilique de Fourvière]], Disque Amis de l'orgue.
* ''Toccata et fugue'', by Georges Aloy, Lyon, [[Basilique de Fourvière]], Disque Amis de l'orgue.
* ''Arabesque'', by Patrice Caire, Lyon, chapelle des Chartreux, Lugduvox Records, 1980.
* ''Arabesque'', by Patrice Caire, Lyon, chapelle des Chartreux, Lugduvox Records, 1980.


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.artsetmouvements.org/hommage_a_rougier.php Hommage à Adrien Rougier]
* [http://www.artsetmouvements.org/hommage_a_rougier.php Hommage à Adrien Rougier]
* http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2016/04/24/adrien-rougier-illustrateur-et-defenseur-des-orgues-de-lyon
* [http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2016/04/24/adrien-rougier-illustrateur-et-defenseur-des-orgues-de-lyon Adrien Rougier]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hqEd3NLFA (''La Maison du Matin'', extract from ''Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano,'' played by Qi Xiaoxiao and Sim Hyun Min at the {{ill|Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Étienne|fr|3=Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Étienne|lt=Conservatoire de Saint-Étienne}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hqEd3NLFA (''La Maison du Matin'', extract from ''Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano''], played by Qi Xiaoxiao and Sim Hyun Min at the {{ill|Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Étienne|fr|3=Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Saint-Étienne|lt=Conservatoire de Saint-Étienne}}
* http://www.orgue-sndj.org/index.php/category/concerts/anciennes-saisons/ (''Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue'' played by Georges Aloy and ''Arabesque'' performed by Philippe Quattroccolo playing the organ of [[Église du Saint-Nom-de-Jésus (Lyon)|Église du Saint-Nom de Jésus]])
* [http://www.orgue-sndj.org/index.php/category/concerts/anciennes-saisons/ ''Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue'' played by Georges Aloy and ''Arabesque'' performed by Philippe Quattroccolo] playing the organ of [[Église du Saint-Nom-de-Jésus (Lyon)|Église du Saint-Nom de Jésus]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hqEd3NLFA ''La maison du matin'', music by Adrien Rougier, poem by Albert Samain]] (YouTube)
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Latest revision as of 05:06, 7 November 2024

Adrien Rougier
Born23 June 1892
Vernaison, Rhône, France
Died1 July 1984(1984-07-01) (aged 92)
Lyon, France
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Composer, organist
InstrumentOrgan

Adrien Rougier (23 June 1892 – 1 July 1984) was a French organist, organ builder, conductor and composer.

Life

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Born in Vernaison, to a family of silk merchants in Lyon, Rougier studied the piano and then the organ with Édouard Commette, organist at the Lyon Cathedral. He then continued his musical studies and learned musical composition with Georges Martin Witkowski, founder of the Société des Grands Concerts.[1] Mobilized for military service in 1912 and during the First World War, he was wounded several times in the trenches of the Battle of Verdun before joining the Armée d'Orient and serving until the end of the war.

On his return from the front, he went back to music and entered the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Maurice Sergent, Vincent d'Indy and especially Louis Vierne as teachers, whose latter's influence would be predominant in his compositions for organ. The latter also commissioned him to create his Triptych for organ Op. 58[2] with orchestra. In 1921, his symphonic poem Les Elfes won the prize of the musical composition of the Société des Grands Concerts, at the same time as a Sarabande by Pierre-Octave Ferroud[3] and the following year he became conductor of the Hector Berlioz Symphony Concerts in Grenoble.[4] For the 1927/1928 musical season, he did not forget the Lyon scene alongside Paul Le Flem, André Caplet and Jacques Ibert by premiering En marge de trois maîtres français.

But Rougier returned to his favourite instrument, the pipe organ and, after an experience as assistant at the Church of Saint-Sulpice and as appointed organist at the Dominicains convent of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris[5] he became a titular in several parishes in Lyon such as Saint-Irénée, Saint-Polycarpe and Saint-Pothin. Back from Paris in the 1920s, he stressed the importance and variety of the organ repertoire by Bach with his former master, Édouard Commette, who would later make reference recordings of the German master whose work was increasingly popular with the public.[6] Titular of the great organ of the Église Saint-Pothin, he invited in particular Marcel Dupré, Pierre Cochereau, Maurice Duruflé, Gaston Litaize, Jeanne Demessieux, Jean Langlais and Marie-Claire Alain to the gallery .[7] It was at his request that Duruflé's Requiem was first performed for solo organ with the composer at the pulpit, the first for large orchestra taking place in 1947, Salle Gaveau, in Paris.

In 1937, he was one of the members of the "Cercle du Luth". with Édouard Commette, Ennemond Trillat, Jean Bouvard, Robert de Fragny, Ferrier-Jourdain, Pierre Giriat, Marcel Paponaud, Marcel Pehu, Jean Reynaud and Victor Richer, a musical society in Lyon that disappeared during the Second World War.[8] He also participated in the premieres of many works by contemporary artists including Jean Langlais.

For his 51-stop organ of Saint-Pothin's Church, he implemented his invention, a device for calling combinations called "Acribès".[9] One of these combiners had been installed on the grandstand organ of the primatial Saint-Jean de Lyon when it was reinstalled in 1935-1936.[10] This combiner is still in operation in the organ of the Saint-André church in Tarare[11] while another copy is located at the Musée suisse de l'orgue [fr].[12]

A professor at the Conservatoire de Lyon [fr], where Georges Aloy, Patrice Caire, Maurice Clerc, Paul Coueffë, Georges Guillard, Jean-Pierre Millioud, Jean-Luc Salique, Marcel Godard among others were his students[13] as well as Madeleine Jallifier,[14] Rougier was a tireless promoter of organ music in Lyon, which led him to create the Société des Amis de l'Orgue with Jean Bouvard, Norbert Dufourcq, Marcel Péhu and abbott François Boursier,[15] and to devote research to the electronic combiner and organ building.[16] His contribution to the restitution of the sounds of the organs of Johann Sebastian Bach led him to make both a biographical and technical synthesis of the works of the Leipziger Kantor. With regard to organ restoration, he called for restorations that respected as much as possible the original historical instrument.[17] In 1974 he was elevated to the rank of chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Alexandre Renard, bishop of Lyon.

He was the brother of astronomer and physicist Gilbert Rougier [fr], and Octave Simon [fr]'s cousin.

Works

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  • Les Elfes, poème symphonique pour orchestre, 1921 (premiered by the Orchestre philharmonique de Grenoble, 19 April 1922)
  • En marge de trois maîtres français, pour orchestre (premiered on 9 November 1928, salle Rameau à Lyon, by the orchestra of the Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by the author).
  • Trois Esquisses pour l'Odyssée: Ulysse, Calypso, Les Jeux chez les Phéaciens, for orchestra (premiered March 1934, salle Rameau in Lyon, by the orchestre de la Société philharmonique de Lyon conducted by Jean Witkowski).
  • Nocturne pour violoncelle et piano (published at Jobert, Paris)
  • Trois mélodies sur des poèmes d’Albert Samain, pour soprano et piano : La Maison du Matin, Le Petit Palémon, dedicated to Suzanne Balguerie and Les Constellations dedicated to her brother Gilbert Rougier, (published by Jobert, Paris, 1936)
  • Prélude, extract of Suite Française, for piano, by the Members of the Luth (published at Béal, in Lyon)
  • Elégie-lamento pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
  • Arabesque pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
  • Elevation en ré bémol majeur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
  • Interlude en ut mineur pour orgue (published by Rubin, Lyon)
  • Toccata et fugue en sol mineur pour orgue, premiered in the presence of Alexandre Renard, archbishop of Lyon (published by Rubin, Lyon)
  • Petites pièces pour orgue
  • Berceuse pour violon et orgue
  • Initiation à la facture d'orgue publication in Amis de l’orgue de Lyon - 1940/41 –
  • Les Orgues de Jean-Sébastien Bach - Imprimerie Roudil Frères – Lyon
  • J.-S. Bach, l'organiste et l'œuvre pour orgue by Adrien Rougier.[18]

Selected discography

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  • Berceuse pour violon et orgue, by Georges Guillard (choir organ) and Michel Dietz (violin), Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church in the Île Saint-Louis, Disque Orgues Nouvelles No 6, 2009.
  • Toccata et fugue, by Georges Aloy, Lyon, Basilique de Fourvière, Disque Amis de l'orgue.
  • Arabesque, by Patrice Caire, Lyon, chapelle des Chartreux, Lugduvox Records, 1980.

References

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  1. ^ Société des Grands Concerts Home page
  2. ^ Louis Vierne : la vie et l’œuvre, by Bernard Gavoty, Buchet/Chastel, 1980
  3. ^ Le Ménestrel, Volume 83, page 445 (in French). Paris. 1921.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "Editions Musicales Rubin".
  5. ^ "Adrien Rougier, illustrateur et défenseur des orgues de Lyon". Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Aspects de la musique baroque et classique à Lyon et en France: Lyon et la musique du XVIe au XXe siècle", Daniel Paquette, Presses universitaires de Lyon [fr], 1989.
  7. ^ Jacques Renault (1994). "Le grand orgue de Saint-Pothin". Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (in French).
  8. ^ Henry Prunières (1938). La Revue musicale, Volume 19 (in French). Paris: Éditions Richard-Masse.
  9. ^ Grande encyclopédie de Lyon et des communes du Rhône", volume 2, by André Pelletier, Horvath, 1980
  10. ^ Reveyron, Nicolas; Durand, Jean-Dominique; Repellin, Didier; Cacaud, Michel (2011). Lyon, la grâce d'une cathédrale (in French). Strasbourg: La Nuée bleue. ISBN 978-2716507899.
  11. ^ "L'orgue Saint-André se refait une beauté". le-pays.fr (in French). 14 April 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  12. ^ Jean-Jacques Gramm (2008). L'Acribès du Musée Suisse de l'Orgue (in French). Neuchâtel: La Tribune de l'Orgue. pp. 25–26.
  13. ^ "Tradition - JARDIN A LA FRANCAISE - Éditions à Cœur Joie". edacj.musicanet.org (in French). Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  14. ^ "St Joseph : Hommage à Madeleine Jalliffier". orgues.free.fr. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Les Orgues de Lyon", Pierre-Marie Guéritey and Michelle Guéritey, Association régionale de diffusion et d'information musicales, 1992 - 452 pages
  16. ^ Guide de la musique d'orgue, under the direction of Gilles Cantagrel, Fayard, 2012
  17. ^ L'orgue classique français", Jean Fellot, Edisud, 1993
  18. ^ Les Orgues du Rhône, Yves Jaffrès, Éditions Compact, 1992
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