Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714) - La Messe avec plain-chant (1667)

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Composer: Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632-1714)
Work: La Messe avec plain-chant des 'Deuxième livre d’Orgue contenant la Messe et les Hymnes de l’Église' (1667)
Performers: Jean Wοlfs (organ); Schola Cantοrum

La Messe avec plain-chant (1667)
1. Kyrie 0:00
2. Gloria 8:26
3. Offerte et Fugue et Dialogue 19:35
4. Sanctus 24:56
5. Agnus Dei 31:38

Painting: Jacob Balthasar Peeters (c.1650-1720) - Interior of the Jesuit Church in Bruges
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Guillaume (Guilaume) Gabriel Nivers
(Paris?, c.1632 - Paris, 30 November 1714)

French organist, composer and theorist. He came from a prosperous family; his father, a ‘bourgeois de Paris’, was farmer to the bishop. He most likely received his education at the University of Paris (1661). He was appointed organist of St. Sulpice from the early 1650s, and was also made one of the 4 organists of the royal chapel (1678), master of music to the queen (1681), and head of music at the Maison Royale de St. Louis, the convent school in St. Cyr for young women of the nobility. He married in 1668 and had one son. His will, dated 1711, gives a detailed picture of the comfortable circumstances of his last years and of his piety and devotion to the church. As a composer, his three 'Livres d'orgue' were the first published works to establish the distinctive styles and forms of the French organ school of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. As a theorist, he was mainly praised for his 'Traité de la composition de musique' (1667), widely known outside France.