Toccata (Gigout)
Organ
Eugène Gigout
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Toccata - Gigout
Toccata - Gigout
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Marija Loncar Strohm, Los Angeles 1st Baptist Church
George Warren, Altenberger Dom, Germany
Maria Mokhova, Klosterkirche, Mariannhill, Würzburg, Germany
Daniel Colaner
Eugène Gigout (23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer, mostly of music for his own instrument.
Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of the French capital’s Saint-Augustin Church for 62 years. He became widely known as a teacher and his output as a composer was considerable. Renowned as an expert improviser, he also founded his own music school. His nephew by marriage was Léon Boëllmann, another distinguished French composer and organist.
The 10 pièces pour orgue (composed 1890) include the Toccata in B minor, Gigout’s best-known creation, which turns up as a frequent encore at organ recitals. Also fairly often played, and to be found in the same collection, is a Scherzo in E major. Other notable pieces by Gigout are Grand chœur dialogué, which dates from 1881, and Marche religieuse. Gigout’s works are now available on several commercial recordings.
His pupils included the aforementioned Boëllmann, André Fleury, Henri Gagnon, André Marchal, André Messager, Albert Roussel and Victoria Cartier.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Metasyntactic variable."
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