Surrexit A Mortuis, Widor – Score
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I would like to explain the circumstances surrounding the arrangement of this score, Surrexit a Mortuis, with English translation Today Christ Has Conquered Death.
Charles Courboin was a well-known organist, remembered especially for his thirty years as Organist of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Courboin’s son, Robert Courboin, lived in Clarksville, Tennessee, a short distance from Nashville. Upon the suggestion of other musicians in Clarksville, Robert gave a box of his father’s music to me in Nashville.
In that assortment of music was an out-of-print anthem-length composition by Charles-Marie Widor for choir and two organs. I asked Eberhard Ramm to arrange the petit organ part for brass quintet with added optional tympani. The name of the composition was Surrexit a Mortuis, a Latin text for Easter. In the original score there was an added second text, Sacerdos et Pontifex.
In the present newly arranged score for Choir, Organ and Brass Quintet with optional Tympani, the original Latin Easter text is included along with an English translation by Mary Race and me. I appreciate very much that the Nashville company, Aardworks, is willing to publish this arrangement of Widor’s work. The new score of Surrexit a Mortuis – Today Christ Has Conquered Death can be purchased from Lois Fyfe Music in Nashville, Tennesse and at Aardworks.com.
Wilma Jensen
January, 2010
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