Pipeloops
SHOP | Request Trial | My Account/Register  |  Cart Contents  |  Checkout  |  English    Deutsch      
Stay informed: Subscribe to our Newsletter
Cavaillé-Coll organ Madeleine, Paris 35.00EUR
Description

Sample set of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Madeleine church in Paris.

This sample set features five sound combinations of this famous organ. 

Please make use of the free trial version of this sample set before purchasing it. Please click on the Trial Version-Tab for more information. You will also need to have the trial version installed as a prerequisite for installing the full version.

This sample set is available as download only. The download link will be mailed to you after your payment is received.

Details

Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Madeleine church in Paris

This superb organ is now available as a sample set for the Hauptwerk-2 virtual pipe organ software.

Specification of the virtual organ

2 manuals C-g’’’ + pedal C-f’

Pedal combinations

  • Fonds 32’+16’
  • Tutti (32’ based, full fonds, reeds plus manuals)

Manual combinations (playable from both manuals)

  • Fonds 8’ all manuals coupled
  • Fonds 16’+8’+4’ all manuals coupled
  • Tutti (16’ based, full fonds, reeds and mixtures, manuals coupled, octave grave coupled)

Couplers

  • I-P, II-P

All samples have been recorded in 16bit stereo at 44100Hz wave-format. Careful noise reduction has been applied to preserve the original as faithfully as possible.

Samples

The samples have been recorded by Peter Ewers during a recording session for a CD with improvisations on the organ. All samples have been recorded with full room ambience. There are four samples/octave.

As a first for any Hauptwerk sample set we have created staccato relese sample artificially using an impulse response carefully designed to match the original room accoustics as closely as possible. We think the result is improved dramatically over the standard release tails, which lead to bell-like artefacts on staccato notes.  

Requirements
Licence Inform.

Compatible with Hauptwerk Free Edition.

This sample set is compatible with Hauptwerk version 3.20 and above. It will work on the Hauptwer Free Edition as well as with Hauptwerk running in Evaluation Mode.
This set requires only very little ressources. In Hauptwerk memory requirement is as little as 660MB loading all samples compressed and about 1100MB uncompressed. A polyphony of about 500 voices should be sufficient.

License agreement
The licence conditions for our sample sets conditions can be found here.

 

Images

Sound
Demonstrations

On this page you find recordings made with the Madeleine sample set using the Hauptwerk™ virtual pipe organ software. All demos have been recorded directly without any further processing.

NEW DEMO:

A fantastic improvisation by internationally acclaimed concert organist/composer Hans-Dieter Karras showcasing the glorious Tutti of the Madeleine set. Directly recorded using Hauptwerk’s recording feature without any further processing. Enjoy!

Improvisation

The set of demos listed below has been recorded using some short improvisations recorded as MIDI-files by Peter Ewers. No effect processing has been applied to the recordings.

  1. Manuals Fonds 8’
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  2. Manuals Tutti
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  3. Pedal + Manuals Tutti
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  4. Pedal Fonds 32’+16’  + Manuals Fonds 8’
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  5. Manuals Tutti
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  6. Manuals Tutti
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
  7. Pedal Fonds 32’+16’  + Manuals Fonds 16’+8’+4’
    Hauptwerk-2                                        
Trial Version

The Virtual Cavaillé-Coll Madeleine sample set (Hauptwerk version only!) is being made available as a trial version for download. After loading the sample set into Hauptwerk (min. Version 2) it will work for 75 seconds. After this time no sound will be produced and you will have to reload the sample set to continue your evaluation. Please read the license agreement below before downloading the sample set. By clicking on the download link below you automatically agree to the license conditions.

Please refer to our download page for the link to the trial version.

 

 

The Organ

Disposition

Grand Orgue (I) C-g’’’
Montre 16'
Gambe 16'
Montre 8'
Salicional 8'
Flûte harmonique 8'
Bourdon 8'
Prestant 4'
Quinte 2 2/3'
Doublette 2'
Piccolo 1' (3)
Fourniture V
Cymbale V
Cornet V (3)
Trompette 8'
Cor anglais 8’

 

Positif (II) C-g’’’
Montre 8'
Flûte douce 8'
Viole de Gambe 8'
Voix céleste 8'
Prestant 4'
Dulciane 4'
Octavin 2'
Trompette 8'
Musette 8'
Basson-Hautbois 8' (1)
Clairon 4'

 

Bombarde (III) C-g’’’
Soubasse 16'
Flûte harmonique 8'
Flûte traversiére 8'
Basse 8'
Flûte octaviante 4'
Octavin 2'
Fourniture IV (2)
Cornet III (2)
Bombarde 16'
Trompette 8'
2éme Trompette harmonique 8' (1)
Clairon 4'

 

Récit expressif (IV) C-g’’’
Flûte harmonique 8'
Bourdon céleste 8' (3)
Prestant 4' (2)
Flûte octaviante 4'
Octavin 2' (4)
Doublette 2' (2)
Larigot 1 1/3' (3)
Plein Jeu IV (3)
Cymbale V (2)
Bombarde 16' (2)
Trompette 8'
Basson-Hautbois 8'
Musette 8' (1)
Voix humaine 8'
Clairon 4'
Trémolo

 

Pédale C-g’
Quitaton 32''
Contrebasse 16'
Flûte 8'
Violoncelle 8'
Flûte 4'
Bombarde 16'
Bombarde 16'
Basson 8'
Clairon 4'
Accouplements
 Pos/GO, Rec/GO, Bom/GO
 Rec/Pos, Rec/Bom, Bom/Pos
 REc/GO 4', Bom/GO 16', Rec 4', Rec 16', Suppression Rec 8'
 Tirasse: GO, Pos, Rec, Bom
 Tirasse 4': GO, Pos, Rec,Bom
 Appel Anches: GO, Pos, Bom, Rec, Ped
 Tutti Pleins-Jeux, Tutti géneral, Crescendo de jeux
 Combinateur: 15x16 combinaisons
 Orgelbauer / Facteurs d’orgue / Organbuilders
  (1) Cavaillé-Coll 1846
  (2) Roethinger/Boisseau 1956/57
  (3) Danion-Gonzales 1971
  (4) Dargassies 1988

(Text by Thorsten Böddeker, translated by Anja-Marleen Krause)

The Instrument

In 1846, the organbuilder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) provided the Èglise de la Sainte-Madeleine in Paris, consecrated in 1842, with the organ that until today enriches the monumental nave of this church visually and tonally. It is accommodated in a low cabinet in Italian renaissance style that is partly from gilded wood. (Design by J.-M. Huvé; carvings by Lindemberg, sculptures by Marneuf (Karyatids carrying books, sitting angels, Christ medallion above the portal).) The separate console is layed out in the style of architecture of the prospect; its four manuals were originally crowned with the company plaque:

Cavaillé-Coll Père et Fils
Facteurs d’orgues du Roi
1846

While he equipped his first great organ (Basilique de St-Denis, III/P/69, 1841) with a “classical” concept of tone with diapasons, numerous mutations stops, cornets and mixtures in Grand-orgue/ Bombarde and Positif as well as the Ravalement of reeds of the pedal, there took place a crucial change with constructing the Madeleine organ towards the possibility of progressive and homogeneous orchestral fusion. This was provided by an increased number of stops of the same pitch (The apparant abandonment of the Äqualverbot had Cavaillé-Coll arrange for the Grand-Orgue alone two sets of 16’-stops (Montre, Viole) and the range 8’-foundation stops that should become indispensible for him also for small instruments later.) , numerous flutes, couplers of all manuals, octaves graves in Grand-Orgue and Bombardes, brilliant reeds (Trompettes 16’, 8´, 8´, 4´ in the Bombardes manual), general tutti. Originally there was not a single Cornet there!

The division of organ, however, refers to the period of classical French organbuilding; the reeds that in later organs is in the Grand-orgue is in the joinable IIIrd Bombardes manual (16’, 8’, (8’), 4’); Grand-Orgue has got the 8’-reeds Trompette and Cor anglais. Cavaillé-Coll had intended unrealized Trompettes en chamade 8’ and 4’ here. Though enclosed, the Récit is - in a “pre-symphonic” manner - assigned to the IVth manual. In 1846, it covered less than 20% of all the stops (with his later organs, it would cover up to one third as a “second Grand-Orgue").

In the Positif there was in the beginning a Basson-Hautbois 8’ instead of the classical Cromorne, the Basson-Hautbois 8’ having changed places with the Musette 8’ from the Récit nowadways. The then innovative string-celeste Voix céleste II 8’ is in the Madeleine organ part of the non-enclosed Positif ever since; in 1971, Danion-Gonzalez intervened supplementarily into the general plan by establishing a Bourdon-celeste in the Récit expressif (Bourdon céleste 8’).

Not until 1927, the organ was given a general overhaul by Charles MUTIN. It was impossible to ascertain whether it was on this occasion that the scope of the manual was extended from 54 to 56 notes and the scope of the pedale from 25 to 32 notes.

As early as in 1956/57, the organbuilder Roethinger/ Boisseau provided the IIIrd manual with a “neo-classical” Fourniture IV as well as Cornet III, the Récit expressif with Prestant 4’ and Cymbale III, and thus extended most probably the Trompette harmonique 8’ (removed from Bombardes) by 12 base notes into a “Bombardes” 16’. In 1971, Danion-Gonzalez electrified stop- and keyaction, added - besides the before-mentioned Bourdon céleste - Flûte 4’ to the Pédale and added Larigot 1 1/3’ and Pleinjeu IV to the Récit. Grand-orgue was given the missing Cornet V. Bernard Dargassies, who is entrusted with the organ at present, gave the organ a general overhaul in 1988.

The Organists at La Madeleine

Since its consecration in 1846, the organ of La Madeleine resounded under the hands of many - mostly famous - musicians who held the post of the organiste titulaire or organiste supplémentaire respectively. A.Ch. Fessy was followed by L.J.A. Lefébure-Wély in 1847 whose compositions breathed the spirit of the neighbouring Opéra-Comique, which, however, according to Camille Saint-Saëns who succeeded in 1857, veiled the quality of his improvizations. With Saint-Saëns “a serious, stern musician” entered the gallery of La Madeleine. As he himself commented ironically, “... et l’on avait fait croire au public que je jouais continuellement des fugues; si bien qu’une jeune fille, en passe de se marier, vint me supplier de ne pas en jouer à sa messe de mariage.” Camille Saint-Saens, L’orgue et l’improvisation. From: L’Orgue No. 8 (1931). “... and the public was made believe that I always played fugues; so much that a young girl who was about to get married came to me and pleaded that I might play none for her wedding.”

Saint-Saëns lamented the low regard people had for improvization: “Sous prétexte qu’une improvisation ne sautait valoire les chefs-d’oeuvre des Sébastian Bach, des Mendelssohn, on en a détourné les jeunes organistes. (...) c’est tout simplement la négation de l’éloquence.” Ibid. “Under the pretext that an improvization of Bach’s of Mendelssohn’s masterpieces does not come close to the original, young organists were put off from improvizing at all. (...) This is simply a denial of eloquence.” Franz Liszt, to whom the well-known Third Symphony for organ and orchestra was dedicated, was often Saint-Saëns’ guest at La Madeleine.

Théodore Dubois, who had asserted himself against César Franck, succeeded Saint-Saëns in 1877 and remained in office as Madeleine organist until 1896 when he became director of the Paris conservatoire. Dubois left numerous pieces for the organ that are almost exclusively of liturgical purpose. Amongst them is the popular Marche des Rois Mages and a toccata. His successor Gabriel Fauré, famous as a componist, did not leave any organ compositions. Henri Dallier was titulaire from 1905 till 1934. During Dallier's period of office, Charles-Marie Widor gave the first performance of his “Suite latine” on January 13, 1928, right at the end of the restauration of the Madeleine organ by Charles Mutin. Dallier's successor Edouard Mignan worked until 1962 when Jeanne Demessieux (student of Marcel Dupré) followed as a legendary organist who on her tournaments of the whole of Europe as well as three times the USA received triumphant glory. At La Madeleine she recorded - among other things - the complete works of César Franck on LP-disk and inspired the congregation with her Sunday morning improvizations. Dupré confessed once, that he was Jeanne Demessieux teacher as well as student. After her death in 1968, Odile Pierre succeeded her in office, who also studied with Dupré and lead an important carreer as a concert organist and teacher. She left La Madeleine in 1979. Since that year, François-Henri Houbart is the titulaire, student of Pierre Cochereau.

Amongst the supplementary organists of the titulaire organists there are Charles-Marie Widor (who later became an influential organist at Saint-Sulpice), Eugène Gigout and Nadia Boulanger to be mentioned.

Available Options:
Please click on the small arrow at the right hand side of the selection field below to show the available options. You can select an option by clicking on it. Prices different from the product's standard price are shown in the selection list as well.
Shopping Cart
0 items
News Blog
(03/13/2024) Free Sample Set!
(11/18/2023) Pipeloops Winter Sale
(11/15/2023) Pipeloops Virtual Organ Concerts
Downloads
Freebies
Samplesets and trial versions
Patches
Reviews
Hauptwerk
Others

Shipping & Payment  |  Privacy Notice  |  Conditions of Use  |  Contact & Imprint

Copyright © 2008-2024 Pipeloops
Powered by osCommerce