Pierre Dumage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French organist and composer
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Place of Birth: Beauvais, Hauts-de-France, France
About Pierre Dumage
- Pierre Dumage (du Mage) (baptized 23 November 1674 – 2 October 1751) was a French Baroque organist and composer.
- His first music teacher was most likely his father, organist of the Beauvais Cathedral.
- At some point during his youth Dumage moved to Paris and studied under Louis Marchand.
- He also befriended Nicolas Lebègue, who in 1703 procured for Dumage a position of organist of the Saint-Quentin collegiate church.
- In 1710 Dumage was appointed titular organist of the Laon Cathedral.
- Due to strained relations with his superiors in the cathedral chapter, Dumage left on 30 March 1719, at the age of 45, and became a civil servant.
- He apparently neither played nor composed music professionally until his death. Dumage's only surviving work is Premier livre d'orgue, published in 1708.
- This collection is dedicated to the chapter of Saint Quentin.
- It contains a single Suite du premier ton: eight pieces in the traditional French forms: Plein jeu, Fugue, Trio, Tierce en taille, Basse de Trompette, RĂ©cit, Duo and Grand jeu.
- In the brief preface Dumage explains that these are his first works, and that he modelled them after the music of his former teacher Marchand.
- Dumage's music is, however, of very high quality, and entirely representative of French organ music of the period.
- Musicologists FĂ©lix Raugel and Willi Apel both singled out Dumage's RĂ©cit for its "delicate and gentle lyricism", and Apel also praised the Tierce en taille and the Grand jeu as particularly striking.
- Dumage's second livre d'orgue was presented in 1712 to the chapter of Laon Cathedral, but has never been found.
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