Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

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Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Zoele-Parwijs, near Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Sempst, near Malines, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer.

  • He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium. Fétis sent him to Adolf Hesse in Breslau to learn Johann Sebastian Bach's tradition.
  • In 1847, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome with his Le roi Lear (King Lear). One year later he published his first work for organ Dix improvisations dans le style sévère et chantant (ten improvisations in a strict and singing style).
  • In March 1849 he was appointed organ teacher at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles aged 26, and he trained young French talents, including Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor.
  • In 1852 he gave organ recitals in Saint Vincent de Paul, La Madeleine and Saint Eustache churches in Paris, where he stunned the audience. Particularly notable was his brilliant pedal-playing, which owed a good deal to his studies of Bach's music (at the time Bach's organ works were not well known in France).

[edit] Compositions for organ

  • Dix Improvisations dans le style sévère et chantant (1848)
  • École d'Orgue, basée sur le plain-chant romain (Orgelschule, 1862), incl.:
  • Prélude á 5 (Grave) in E-flat major
  • Prière (Moderato cantabile) in E major
  • Fanfare (Allegro non troppo) in D major
  • Cantabile (Allegretto) in B minor
  • Finale (Allegro) in D major
  • Trois Sonatas (1874):
  • Sonate Nr. 1 "Pontificale" in D minor
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio
3. Marche Pontificale (Maestoso)
4. Fuga (Fanfare)
  • Sonate Nr. 2 "O Filii" in E minor
1. Prélude (Allegro non troppo)
2. Cantabile (Andante)
3. Fuga (Allegro con fuoco)
  • Sonate Nr. 3 "Pascale" in A minor
1. Allegro
2. Adoration (Andante sostenuto)
3. Finale "Alleluia" (Maestoso recitando - Allegro)

[edit] References

  • Lowell Lacey: Jaak-Nicolaas Lemmens (1823-1881) in Adem. 1979.

[edit] External links

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