Jehan Alain (1911-1940) received his first organ lessons from his father and later studied with Marcel Dupré at the Paris Conservatoire. Influenced by the musical languages of the earlier Claude Debussy and his contemporary Olivier Messiaen, Alain’s eventual discovery of the music, dance and philosophies of the Far East led him to believe that music might reveal the state of the soul.
The composer described how his Litanies should be performed:
You must create an impression of passionate incantation. Prayer is not a lament but a devastating tornado, flattening everything in its way. It is also an obsession. You must fill men’s ears with it, and God’s ears too! If you get to the end [of Litanies] without feeling exhausted, you’ve neither understood it nor played it as I would want it.
Edward McCue, Denver, Colorado. March 2020
Separate printed score: 310 kr (Coil bound. A4 format. 11 pages. Frosted plastic front, hardback.)
Separate score in PDF: 248 kr. (A4 format. 16 pages)
Printed parts: à 50 kr (Tissue taped, B4 format. 4 pages)
Parts in PDF: à 42 kr (A4 or B4-format. 4 pages.)
In the printed material, you get 5 parts: 5 x 50 = 350 sek
In PDF, you get 5 parts: 5 x 42 =280 sek
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