Marcel Dupré, the Work of a Master Organist

Description

Michael Murray’s penetrating biography is the first comprehensive treatment of the life of the French composer and organist Marcel Dupré. The author, a former student of Dupré, has drawn upon his long association with his teacher and upon a wealth of secondary material—including letters from the composer’s contemporaries and reviews of his recitals—to produce a portrait sensitive to the delicate balance between idiosyncratic human nature and: historical detail.Organist Michael Murray has performed throughout Europe and North America and has made numerous recordings on the Telarc label. Among them are the Saint-Saëns organ symphony with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Poulenc concerto with Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony, the Jongen Symphonie Concertante with Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Symphony, and an album of French classics (including works by Dupré) at Symphony Hall in Boston.