Durata 7 min__Rec: BIS-CD-378__Publ: Edition Tarrodi__Lindberg performances: 31
At the Paris conservatory around 1900 a favourable environment was created for students of the trombone, and every year a new work was commissioned as an examination piece for the students. One of these pieces was the "Morceau Symphonique" op 88 by the renowned organist and composer Alexendre Guilmant. Guilmant was born in Boulogne sur mer in 1837 and studied for the famous Lemmens in Brussels. At the age of 16 he was employed as the organist oand choir conductor at St.Nicholas´s Church in his home town, but he subsequently moved to Paris to assume the post of organist at the Holy Tronity Church. By means of the inauguration of great organs such as that of Notre Dame in Paris he became well-known, and later toured with great success in England, Russia, italy and the united States. Guilmant is regarded as one of the finest organists of his time. He wrote many pieces for his own instrument, and also works such as "Belshazzar" for soloists, choir and orchestra, and quantiny of chamber music. He was one of the founder members of the Schola Cantorum and he made a major contribution to organ music by means of his historic Trocadero concerts. The Morceau Symphonique is listed in the catalogue of his works as a piece for trombone and piano, but, judging from the title and the way the piano part is written, there is every reason to assume that the work was originally conceived for trombone and orchestra. The orchestration by Christian Lindberg is based on the available version with piano.