André Raison was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 1688 and 1714.
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A drawing of the front of the church of the Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris, where Raison worked. The building was demolished after 1800.
First bars of Christe: Trio en passacaille from Messe du Deuxième ton, showing the simple, yet unusual, imitative beginning of the work. The ostinato pattern (seen here in full form) is identical to the first half of the ostinato of Johann Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582/1. Here, it will be repeated six times, each time either slightly altered using ornaments, or in a heavily modified form.
A sample of fugal themes from Raison's Premier livre d'orgue (click the image for details)Listen
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André Raison was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 1688 and 1714. The first contains liturgical music intended for monasteries and a preface with information on contemporary performance practice. The second contains mostly noëls.
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