Previous posts for January 22nd are here: Rosa Ponselle (2020), Leon Jessel (2021), George Balanchine; Vincenzo Righini (2022), Vincenzo Righini; Charles Tournemire (2023), and Stefano Pavesi (2024)
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Charles Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist.
Mass Movements
Unlike the symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor, which are usually heard in secular recitals (even when individual movements of these symphonies had liturgical origins), Tournemire's was designed for church use. — adapted from Wikipedia
The Roman rite was substantially changed with the issue of the 1969 edition of the Roman Missal after the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). The Mass adopted a new three-year lectionary cycle, and with it the proper chants for the Mass were re-ordered to coincide more closely with the readings. – adapted from Douglas O’Neill, “Charles Tournemire's L'orgue mystique and the Ordinary Form Mass” (voxhumanajournal.com)
If you should get an urge to hear
The organ works of Tournemire,
You’ll end up in a Catholic church.
But note, as you begin your search,
That even then the chance is slight
On any given day or night
That they’ll be heard within the rite.
The Catholic Church has changed since he
Wrote music for the liturgy,
Which now processes, by decree.
Through yearly cycles A through C.
And organists who used his Propers
Must shop around to fill their hoppers
With starters, interludes, and stoppers.
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