Georges Guillard
Georges Guillard is a French organist, former holder of the Great Organ of the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church in Paris.
Life
Born in Saint-Just-la-Pendue, Guillard was for a long time the holder of the Grandes Orgues de Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux and the Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île in Paris. Founder and former head of the Department of early music at the, he is also a doctor of musicology: his thesis, defended in 1993 under the supervision of Danièle Pistone, is entitled L'orgue à Paris de 1964 à 1986.He is a regular guest at Radio France and the main festivals of the capital, and has also given numerous concerts in the provinces and in Europe. He has also been executive producer at Radio France for organ cycles. In 2002, he launched a complete set of Bach' Cantatas in the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church, which was a great public success, is to last for more than twenty years and is now continuing to be performed in L'Oratoire du Louvre
A long practice of the splendid Kern organ of the Blancs-Manteaux, extensive contacts with organ builders and specialised interpreters led him to take a particular interest in the European baroque and classical repertoires.
His research has taken the form of musical publications, musicological, musicographic or educational.
His discography includes several world premieres: in particular the organ work of Gottfried August Homilius, the first so-called "Weimar version" of J. S. Bach's Leipzig choirs, as well as the entire vocal and instrumental work of Jehan Alain on three CDs. These records have twice been awarded a Golden Orpheus from the .
His interest in contemporary repertoire has also led him to premiere important authors in France: Giacinto Scelsi, Pierre-Yves Level, Olivier Alain, Philippe Schœller, Michèle Reverdy, Jacques Castérède and Bernard Foccroulle.
Discography
- Jehan Alain, Œuvres vocales et instrumentales – CD ARION Orphée d'or 1992.
- Jehan Alain, Œuvres vocales et instrumentales – CD ARION Orphée d'or,1996
- Jehan Alain, Œuvres vocales et instrumentales – CD ARION
- Hans Leo Hassler, Organ pieces and polyphonic songs – CD Solciste
- Gaillac, l'orgue des Cavaillé with Delphine Collot– CD REM
- Gottfried-August Homilius, Organ works – CD ARION
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Cantates bibliques et œuvres instrumentales, 2 CD ARION
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Pièces pour clavier transcrites à l'orgue - CD Jean-François Production JFP 2013
Publishing of musical works
- Gottfried August Homilius, Huit chorals, Paris, Ed. Musicales Transatlantiques, 1981, 22 p.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio en sol mineur BWV 584, Paris, Ed. musicales Transatlantiques, 1978, 4 p.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Choral Wo gehest du hin, extract of Cantata BWV 166, Paris, Ed. musicales Transatlantiques, 1981, 4 p.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Choral Du Friedefürst, extract from Cantata BWV 143,, Paris, Ed. musicales Transatlantiques, 1981, 2 pages.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Fantasia con fuga, BWV 904, Paris, Ed. musicales Transatlantiques, 1981, 10 p.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Prélude, Fugue et Allegro, BWV 998, Ed. Delatour, 2002
- Johann Sebastian Bach, The Art of Fugue, facsimile of the copy made in 1833 by Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, ed. A.Zurfluh, 1985 1st modern edition)
- Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Fugue en la mineur, Ed. Delatour, 2002,
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, 1er Livre d' Orgue , adapted to the organ by Georges Guillard, Ed. Delatour, 2002
- Johann Christoph Altnickol, Sonata per il cembalo solo , edition restored and annotated by Guillard, Ed. Delatour, 2002
- Johann Christoph Altnickol, Notenbüchlein , Ed. Delatour, 2002
- Gottfried August Homilius, Motetto à trois chœurs a cappella, Ed. Delatour, 2002
- Robert Schumann, Album d’Orgue pour la Jeunesse, Pieces taken from Opus 68 and adapted for the organ in the form of a progressive method, Volume 1, Musical Editions of the Schola Cantorum, Fleurier, January 2013.