Daniel Roth (organist)

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Daniel François Roth (born October 31, 1942), is a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.

Contents 1 Life 2 Compositions 2.1 Organ Solo 2.2 Chamber Music 2.3 Vocal Works 2.4 Orchestra 2.5 Transcriptions for Organ 3 Discography 4 Bibliography 5 Pupils 6 External links

[edit] Life

Daniel Roth began his musical training at the conservatory of his home town Mulhouse. In 1960, he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he graduated with five first prizes in organ and improvisation (1963, class of Rolande Falcinelli), harmony [1962, class of Maurice Duruflé), counterpoint and fugue (1963, class of Marcel Bitsch), and piano accompaniment (1970, class of Henriette Puit-Roget). He also studied organ with Marie-Claire Alain.

In 1963, Daniel Roth became Rolande Falcinelli's substitute at the great organ at Sacré-Coeur in Paris, where he succeeded his former teacher as titular organist in 1973, a position he held until 1985, when he was appointed titular organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris, where his predecessors were Charles-Marie Widor, Marcel Dupré, and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.

Daniel Roth was the winner of several prestigious organ competitions, such as the competition of the "Amis de l'orgue", and the Grand Prix in organ performance and improvisation at the Concours de Chartres in 1971.[1]

From 1974-76, Daniel Roth was Artist-In-Residence at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and professor of organ at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C.. He also held teaching positions of organ in Marseille (1974-1979), Strasbourg (1979-1988), and Saarbrücken (1988-1995). From 1995-2007, he taught organ performance and improvisation at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. In addition, he was consultant for the new organ by Karl Schuke at Luxembourg Philharmony, which he dedicated in 2005.

Daniel Roth is "Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur", "Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", and "Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Organists". In 2006, he received the European Prize of European sacred music from the Schwäbisch Gmünd Festival (Germany).

[edit] Compositions

[edit] Organ Solo

• Cinq Versets sur Veni Creator for organ manualiter (In: L’organiste liturgique n°53. Paris: Éditions Schola Cantorum)
• Évocation de la Pentecôte (composed 1979. Paris: Leduc, 1979/revised 1996, inédit)
• Final Te Deum (composed 1981. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1993)
• Joie, Douleur et Gloire de Marie (composed 1990. London: Novello, 1990)
• Hommage à César Franck (composed 1990. Paris: Leduc, 1993)
• Après une Lecture... (composed 1993. In: 1er recueil d'œuvres pour orgue. Paris: Éditions Billaudot, 1993)
• Pour la nuit de Noël (composed 1993. Paris: Leduc, 1993):
  • Prélude "Veni, veni Emmanuel"
  • Communion
  • Postlude
• Triptyque - Hommage à Pierre Cochereau (composed 1995 Paris: Leduc, 1996):
  • Prélude
  • Andante
  • Toccata
• Introduction et Canzona (composed 1977-1990. Leutkirch/Allgäu: Pro Organo, 1992)
• Artizarra - Fantaisie sur un chant populaire basque, pour la fête de I'Epiphanie (composed 1999. Mainz: Schott, 2002)
• Petite Rhapsodie sur une chanson alsacienne (In: Elsässische Orgelmusik aus vier Jahrhunderten. Mainz: Schott, 1998)
• Livre d'orgue pour le Magnificat, Hommage au Facteur d'orgues Aristide Cavaillé-Coll:
  • Vol. 1 (Paris: Éditions Association Boëllmann-Gigout, 2007):
    • 1a. Magnificat
    • 1b. Et exsultavit
    • 2. Quia respexit
    • 3. Quia fecit
    • 4. Et misericordia
    • 5. Fecit potentiam
  • Vol. 2 (unpublished):
    • 6. Deposuit
    • 7. Esurientes
    • 8. Suscepit
    • 9. Sicut locutus est
    • 10. Gloria Patri
• Fantaisie fuguée sur Regina Caeli (Mainz: Schott)

[edit] Chamber Music

• Aïn Karim; Fantasia for flute and organ (Mainz: Schott, 1998)
• Légende for oboe and piano (Paris: Éditions Billaudot)

[edit] Vocal Works

• Ave Maria for four equal voices (Sampzon: Delatour France)
• In manus tuas Domine for SATB (St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag)
• Regina Caeli for mixted voices (Sampzon: Delatour France)
• Reine du ciel a capella (Strasbourg: Éditions Caecilia, 1977)
• Notre Père a capella (Strasbourg: Éditions Caecilia, 1977)
• Messe brève - Missa Brevis for SATB choir and organ (Mainz: Schott, 2001):
  • Kyrie
  • Gloria
  • Sanctus
  • Agnus Dei
• In manus tuas for SATB choir and organ accompaniment ad lib. (St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag)
• Ego sum panis for SATB choir and organ (St. Augustin: Butz-Verlag)
• Missa de archangelis for SATB choir and organ (Sampzon: Delatour France):
  • Kyrie
  • Sanctus
  • Benedictus
  • Agnus Dei
• Dignare me o Jesu for soloists, choir and organ (Sampzon: Delatour France)
• Gebt Zeugnis! for soloists, choir and organ (Mainz: Schott)

[edit] Orchestra

• Licht im Dunkel - Poème for orchestra (Mainz: Schott, 2005)
• Licht im Dunkel: 3rd movement La Joie - Fantaisie for orchestra, organ and piano (Mainz: Schott, 2007)

[edit] Transcriptions for Organ

• César Franck: Interlude symphonique from the oratorio "Rédemption" (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1996)
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Scherzo from Six Duos op. 8 for harmonium and piano (Paris: Éditions Jobert)
• César Franck: Symphony in D minor for orchestra; transcription after the composer's piano version for four hands (unpublished)

[edit] Discography

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded at St. Supice, Paris. Motette 12321. 1 CD.
• A.P.F. Boëly: Grands Offertoires, Fantaisies, Cantiques et Pièces Libres.
  • Daniel Roth, Orgel. Recorded at the Cathédrale de Bayeux. Aeolus 10381. 1 CD.
• Marcel Dupré: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in March 1986 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Motette 10981. 1 CD.
• Marcel Dupré: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in March 1999 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Motette 12581. 1 CD.
• César Franck: Organ Works Vol. 1-3.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in 1991 at St. Sulpice, Paris, the Cathédrale de St. Brieuc and Santa Maria in San Sebastian. Motette 11381, 11391 und 11401. 3 CDs.
• Alexandre Guilmant: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in October 1992 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Motette 11531. 1 CD.
• André Jolivet: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in 1973 and 1980 at St. Victor, Marseille. Arion 68299. 1 CD.
• Franz Liszt: Organ Works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in October 1993 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Motette 12021. 1 CD.
• Louis Vierne: Symphony No. 3 and other organ works.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in July 1983 at St. Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris. Motette 10491. 1 CD.
• Louis Vierne: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded at St. Sulpice, Paris. Aeolus 10451. 1 CD.
• Louis Vierne: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recording in September 2008 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Aeolus. 1 CD (in preparation).
• Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in 1987 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Motette 11141. 1 CD.
• Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in 1989 at St. Sernin, Toulouse. Motette 11241. 1 CD.
• On A Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 6.
  • Werke von Widor und Roth.
    • Daniel Roth, Organist. Live recording from March 13, 2005, at Washington National Cathedral. JAV Recordings 153. 1 CD.
• The Grand 19th century St Sulpice tradition.
  • Works of Widor, Bellenot, Lefébure-Wély, and Roth (Improvisations).
    • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded at St. Sulpice, Paris. JAV recordings. 1 CD.
• Works of Guilmant, Vierne, Nadia Boulanger, Jehan Alain, Messiaen, and Roth.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded at St. Ouen, Rouen. JAV Recordings 165. 1 CD.
• Hommage à Daniel Roth.
  • Works of Bach, Widor, Saint-Saëns und Roth, plus several interviews.
    • Daniel Roth, Organist. Organpromotion. 1 DVD & 1 CD.
• Reubke, Liszt, Ritter.
  • Daniel Roth, Organist. Recorded in September 2002 at St. Sulpice, Paris. Aeolus 10331. 1 CD.

[edit] Bibliography

• Roth, Daniel. Le Grand-Orgue A. Cavaillé-Coll, Mutin de la basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre à Paris. La Flûte harmonique : Publication de l'association A. Cavaillé-Coll, Numéro spécial 1985.

[edit] Pupils

• Martin Bambauer
• Bine Katrine Bryndorf
• Thomas Dahl
• Manuel Gera
• Karl-Bernhardin Kropf
• Torsten Laux
• Stefan Schmidt
• Ben van Oosten
• Martin Welzel

[edit] External links

• http://www.danielrothsaintsulpice.org/
• http://www.stsulpice.com/