Jehan Alain
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Jehan Ariste Alain was a French organist
and composer.
in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father, Albert Alain (1880–1971) was an enthusiastic organist, composer and organ-builder who had studied with Alexandre Guilmant
and Louis Vierne
. His younger brother was the composer, organist and pianist Olivier Alain
(1918–1994), his youngest sister the organist Marie-Claire Alain
(b. 1926). Jehan received his initial training in the piano from Augustin Pierson, the organist of Saint-Louis at Versailles, and in the organ from his father, who had built a four-manual instrument in the family sitting room. By the age of 11, Jehan was substituting at St. Germain-en-Laye.
Between 1927 and 1939, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and achieved First Prize in Harmony under André Bloch
and First Prize in Fugue with Georges Caussade
. He studied the organ with Marcel Dupré
, under whose direction he took first prize for Organ and Improvisation in 1939. His studies in composition with Paul Dukas
and Jean Roger-Ducasse
won him the Prix des amis de l'orgue in 1936 for his Suite for Organ Op. 48, Introduction, Variations, Scherzo and Choral. He was appointed organist of Saint-Nicholas de Maisons Lafitte in Paris in 1935, and remained there for four years. He also played regularly at the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth synagogue, where the only known recording of his playing—a six-minute improvisation—was made in 1938.
His short career as a composer began in 1929, when Alain was 18, and lasted until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His output was influenced not only by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy
and his contemporary Olivier Messiaen
(seen in Le jardin suspendu, 1934), but also by an interest in the music, dance and philosophies of the far east (acquired at the Exposition coloniale internationale of 1931 and seen in Deux danses à Agni Yavishta, 1932, and Deuxième fantaisie, 1936), a renaissance of baroque music (seen in Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin, 1937), and in jazz (seen in Trois danses of 1939).
He wrote choral music, including a Requiem mass, chamber music
, songs and three volumes of piano music. But it is for his organ music for which he is best known. His most famous work, Litanies, is prefaced with the text: "When, in its distress, the christian soul can find no more words to implore the mercy of God, it repeats, times without end, the same fierce-faithed prayer. Reason reaches its limits and only belief can chase its flight". Deuils ('mourning'), the second of the Trois danses, is dedicated to Odile as a Funeral Dance to an Heroic Memory.
Always interested in mechanics, Alain was a skilled motorcyclist and became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army. On 20 June 1940, he was assigned to reconnoitre the German advance on the eastern side of Saumur
, and encountered a group of German soldiers at Le Petit-Puy. Coming around a curve, and hearing the approaching tread of the Germans, he abandoned his motorcycle and engaged the enemy troops with his carbine, killing 16 of them before being killed himself. He was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre for his bravery, and according to Nicolas Slonimsky
was buried, by the Germans, with full military honours.
He left behind his wife, Madeleine Payan whom he had married in 1935, their three children, and a musical output viewed by many to have been amongst the most original of the 20th century.
Henri Dutilleux
's Les citations contains a quotation
from Jehan Alain's music. Maurice Duruflé
wrote a musical tribute to Jehan Alain with his Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'A.L.A.I.N op. 7 for organ.
Ordered chronogically by Jehan Stefan
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
and composer.
Biography
Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-LayeSaint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the centre.Inhabitants are called Saint-Germanois...
in the western suburbs of Paris, into a family of musicians. His father, Albert Alain (1880–1971) was an enthusiastic organist, composer and organ-builder who had studied with Alexandre Guilmant
Alexandre Guilmant
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...
and Louis Vierne
Louis Vierne
Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
. His younger brother was the composer, organist and pianist Olivier Alain
Olivier Alain
Olivier Alain was a French organist, pianist, musicologist and composer.- Life :Olivier Alain was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, into a musical family. His father was the organist and composer Albert Alain , as well as his elder brother Jehan Alain , and his sister, French organist...
(1918–1994), his youngest sister the organist Marie-Claire Alain
Marie-Claire Alain
Marie-Claire Alain is a French organist and organ teacher best known for her prolific recording career. She is particularly known for her ability to perform substantial works entirely from memory.-Background and education:...
(b. 1926). Jehan received his initial training in the piano from Augustin Pierson, the organist of Saint-Louis at Versailles, and in the organ from his father, who had built a four-manual instrument in the family sitting room. By the age of 11, Jehan was substituting at St. Germain-en-Laye.
Between 1927 and 1939, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and achieved First Prize in Harmony under André Bloch
André Bloch (composer)
André Bloch was a French composer and music educator. He studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier. The prize enabled him to pursue further studies...
and First Prize in Fugue with Georges Caussade
Georges Caussade
Georges Caussade was a French composer, music theorist, and music educator. Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Paris in 1905 as a teacher of counterpoint. He began teaching fugue at the school as well in 1921; a position his wife, composer Simone...
. He studied the organ with Marcel Dupré
Marcel Dupré
Marcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
, under whose direction he took first prize for Organ and Improvisation in 1939. His studies in composition with Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
and Jean Roger-Ducasse
Jean Roger-Ducasse
Jean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse was a French composer.-Biography:Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré...
won him the Prix des amis de l'orgue in 1936 for his Suite for Organ Op. 48, Introduction, Variations, Scherzo and Choral. He was appointed organist of Saint-Nicholas de Maisons Lafitte in Paris in 1935, and remained there for four years. He also played regularly at the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth synagogue, where the only known recording of his playing—a six-minute improvisation—was made in 1938.
His short career as a composer began in 1929, when Alain was 18, and lasted until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His output was influenced not only by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
and his contemporary Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
(seen in Le jardin suspendu, 1934), but also by an interest in the music, dance and philosophies of the far east (acquired at the Exposition coloniale internationale of 1931 and seen in Deux danses à Agni Yavishta, 1932, and Deuxième fantaisie, 1936), a renaissance of baroque music (seen in Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin, 1937), and in jazz (seen in Trois danses of 1939).
He wrote choral music, including a Requiem mass, chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, songs and three volumes of piano music. But it is for his organ music for which he is best known. His most famous work, Litanies, is prefaced with the text: "When, in its distress, the christian soul can find no more words to implore the mercy of God, it repeats, times without end, the same fierce-faithed prayer. Reason reaches its limits and only belief can chase its flight". Deuils ('mourning'), the second of the Trois danses, is dedicated to Odile as a Funeral Dance to an Heroic Memory.
Always interested in mechanics, Alain was a skilled motorcyclist and became a dispatch rider in the Eighth Motorised Armour Division of the French Army. On 20 June 1940, he was assigned to reconnoitre the German advance on the eastern side of Saumur
Battle of Saumur (1940)
The Battle of Saumur occurred during the last stages of the Battle of France during World War II, when officer cadets from the Cavalry School at Saumur, led by superintendent Colonel Michon, made a defensive stand along the Loire River at Saumur and Gennes...
, and encountered a group of German soldiers at Le Petit-Puy. Coming around a curve, and hearing the approaching tread of the Germans, he abandoned his motorcycle and engaged the enemy troops with his carbine, killing 16 of them before being killed himself. He was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre for his bravery, and according to Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He described himself as a "diaskeuast" ; "a reviser or interpolator."- Life :...
was buried, by the Germans, with full military honours.
He left behind his wife, Madeleine Payan whom he had married in 1935, their three children, and a musical output viewed by many to have been amongst the most original of the 20th century.
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
's Les citations contains a quotation
Musical quotation
Musical quotation is the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition. The quotation may be from the same composer's work , or from a different composer's work ....
from Jehan Alain's music. Maurice Duruflé
Maurice Duruflé
Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...
wrote a musical tribute to Jehan Alain with his Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'A.L.A.I.N op. 7 for organ.
Chronological catalog
JA stands for Jehan Alain.Ordered chronogically by Jehan Stefan
- 1929 – 18 years old – 4 opus
- JA 021 – Togo, pour piano [June 1929]
- JA 007 bis – Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent, pour orgue [August 1929]
- JA 003 – Etude sur un thème de quatre notes, pour piano [November 1929]
- JA 008 – Chanson triste, pour piano [1929]
- 1930 – 19 years old – 14 opus
- JA 009 – Ballade en mode phrygien, pour orgue ou piano [January 1930]
- JA 002 – Thème et cinq variations, pour piano [February 1930]
- JA 014 – Lamento, pour orgue [February 1930]
- JA 001 – Quarante variations, pour piano [April 1930]
- JA 017 – Des nuages gris, pour deux pianos [June 1930]
- JA 004 – Ecce ancilla Domini, pour piano [August 1930]
- JA 029 – Postlude pour l'Office de Complies, pour orgue [August 1930]
- JA 130 – Adagio, pour piano [12 August 1930]
- JA 005 – Seigneur, donne-nous la paix éternelle (Choral), pour piano [October 1930]
- JA 007 – Etude de sonorité sur une double pédale, pour piano [October 1930]
- JA 010 – Etude sur les doubles notes, pour piano [October 1930]
- JA 020 – Pour le défrichage, pour piano [December 1930]
- JA 131 – Variations sur un thème donné de Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
, pour quatre voix [December 1930] - JA 131A – Variations sur un chant donné de Rimsky-Korsakov, pour orgue [December 1930]
- JA 131B – Variations sur un thème donné de Rimsky-Korsakov, pour quatuor à cordes [December 1930]
- JA 129 – Lettre à son amie Lola pour la consoler d'avoir attrapé la grippe, pour piano [1930]
- 1931 – 20 years old – 12 opus
- JA 012 – Petite rhapsodie, pour piano [February 1931]
- JA 016 – Mélodie-sandwich, pour piano [23 February 1931]
- JA 006 – Verset-Choral, pour orgue ou piano [March 1931]
- JA 011 – Lumière qui tombe d'un vasistas, pour piano [April 1931]
- JA 015 – Histoire sur un tapis, entre des murs blancs, pour piano [May 1931]
- JA 018 – Canons à sept, pour deux pianos [May 1931]
- JA 013 – Heureusement, la bonne fée sa marraine..., pour piano [10 August 1931]
- JA 019 – Nocturne, soir du 22 août 31, pour piano [22 August 1931]
- JA 022 – En dévissant mes chaussettes, pour piano [September 1931]
- JA 023 – 26 septembre 1931, pour piano [26 September 1931]
- JA 024 – Dans le rêve laissé par la Ballade des pendusBallade des pendusThe Ballade des pendus, also known as Epitaphe Villon or Frères humains, is the best-known poem by François Villon. It is commonly acknowledged, even if not clearly established, that Villon wrote it during his imprisonment awaiting his execution following the Ferrebouc affair, in which a pontifical...
de François VillonFrançois VillonFrançois Villon was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison...
, pour piano [4 October 1931] - JA 143 – Pièces d'après François Campion, pour orgue [1931]
- 1932 – 21 years old – 14 opus
- JA 025 – Choral et variations – Mythologies japonaises, pour piano [1932]
- JA 027 – Variations sur Lucis Creator, pour orgue [January 1932]
- JA 028 – Fugue en mode de fa, pour orgue ou piano [1932]
- JA 035 – O quam suavis est, pour baryton [1932]
- JA 036 – Le rosier de Mme Husson, pour piano [March 1932]
- JA 037 – Chant donné, pour orgue ou piano [1932]
- JA 061 – Canon, pour piano et harmonium [1932]
- JA 079 – Climat, pour orgue [March 1932]
- JA 030 – Trois minutes : Un cercle d'argent, pour piano ou orgue [1932]
- JA 031 – Trois minutes : Romance, pour piano ou orgue [1932]
- JA 032 – Trois minutes : Grave, pour piano ou orgue [August 1932]
- JA 034 – Cantique en mode phrygien, pour quatre voix mixtes [septembre 1932]
- JA 077 – Première danse à Agni Yavishta, pour orgue [13 October 1932]
- JA 078 – Deuxième danse à Agni Yavishta, pour orgue [13 October 1932]
- JA 033 – Petite pièce, pour orgue [December 1932]
- JA 038 – Complainte à la mode ancienne, pour orgue [1932]
- JA 132 – Chant nuptial, pour baryton et orgue [1932]
- JA 132A – Chant nuptial, pour baryton, basse, violoncelle et orgue [1932]
- 1933 – 22 years old – 6 opus
- JA 026 – Variations chorales sur Sacris solemniis, pour cinq voix mixtes et orgue [January 1933]
- JA 064 – Premier Prélude profane (Wieder an), pour orgue ou piano [February 1933]
- JA 064A – Adagio en quintette, pour quintette à cordes [1933]
- JA 065 – Deuxième Prélude profane (Und jetzt), pour orgue ou piano [6 March 1933]
- JA 039 – Chanson à bouche fermée, pour quatre voix mixtes [1933]
- JA 133 – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour quatre voix [1933]
- JA 133A – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour orgue [1933]
- JA 133B – Fugue sur un sujet de Henri Rabaud, pour quatuor à cordes [1933]
- JA 072 – Première Fantaisie, pour orgue [1933]
- JA 80A – Prélude, pour quintette à cordes [1933]
- 1934 – 23 years old – 5 opus
- JA 134 – Choral cistercien pour une Élévation, pour orgue [April 1934]
- JA 066 – Intermezzo, pour deux pianos et basson [June 1934]
- JA 066 bis – Intermezzo, pour orgue [March 1935]
- JA 074 – Trois mouvements : Allegretto con grazia, pour flûte et piano [August 1934]
- JA 074A – Intermède, pour violoncelle et piano [August 1934]
- JA 074B – Trois mouvements, pour flûte et piano ou violon et piano [1934]
- JA 073 – Trois mouvements : Andante, pour flûte et piano [January 1935]
- JA 073A – Trois mouvements : Allegro vivace, pour flûte et piano [1935]
- JA 074C – Trois mouvements, pour flûte et orgue [1975]
- JA 071 – Le jardin suspendu, pour orgue [October 1934]
- JA 069 – Suite pour orgue : Introduction et variations, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 069A – Andante con variazioni, pour quintette à cordes [1934]
- JA 070 – Suite pour orgue : Scherzo, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 070A – Scherzo, pour quintette à cordes [1934]
- JA 082 – Suite pour orgue : Choral, pour orgue [1935]
- 1935 – 24 years old – 13 opus
- JA 081 – Andante, pour piano [January 1935]
- JA 081 bis – Largo assai, ma molto rubato, pour violoncelle et piano [1935]
- JA 047 – Fantaisie pour chour à bouche fermée, pour trois voix mixtes [9 August 1935]
- JA 057 – Fugue, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 057A – Fugue, pour piano [1935]
- JA 058 – Laisse les nuages blancs, pour soprano ou ténor [1935]
- JA 060 – Foire, pour une voix et piano [1935]
- JA 062 – De Jules Lemaître, pour orgue ou piano [1935]
- JA 063 – Fantasmagorie, pour orgue ou piano [1935]
- JA 067 – Choral dorien, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 068 – Choral phrygien, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 075 – Prélude, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 076 – Nocturne, pour piano [1935]
- JA 080 – Suite monodique : Animato, pour piano [1935]
- JA 089 – Suite monodique : Adagio, molto rubato, pour piano [1935]
- JA 89 bis – Andante, pour orgue [1935]
- JA 116 – Suite monodique : Vivace, pour piano [1935]
- JA 116A – Vivace, pour harpe
- JA 087 – Prélude, pour piano [1935]
- JA 087A – Prélude et fugue, pour piano [1935]
- 1936 – 25 years old – 4 opus
- JA 086 – Berceuse, pour piano [17 avril 1936]
- JA 088 – Chanson tirée du "chat-qui-s'en-va-tout-seul", pour soprano [1936]
- JA 091 – Tarass Boulba, pour piano [October 1936]
- JA 117 – Deuxième Fantaisie, pour orgue [1936]
- 1937 – 26 years old – 13 opus
- JA 119 – Litanies, pour orgue [August 1937]
- JA 119A – Litanies, pour deux pianos, transcribed by Olivier Alain
- JA 084 – Quand Marion..., pour piano [1937]
- JA 085 – Nous n'irons plus au bois..., pour piano [1937]
- JA 090 – Complainte de Jean Renaud, pour quatre voix mixtes [1937]
- JA 092 – Final pour une sonatine facile, pour piano [1937]
- JA 093 – Suite facile : Barcarolle, pour piano [1937]
- JA 094 – Invention à trois voix, pour flûte, hautbois et clarinette [1937]
- JA 094A – Invention à trois voix, pour flûte et orgue [1937]
- JA 095 – Vocalise dorienne, pour soprano et orgue [March 1937]
- JA 095A – Vocalise dorienne – Ave Maria, pour soprano et orgue [1937]
- JA 098 – O salutaris, a cappella, pour deux voix égales [1937]
- JA 099 – Idée pour improviser sur le Christe eleison, pour piano [1937]
- JA 100 – Idée pour improviser sur le deuxième Amen, pour piano [1937]
- JA 118 – Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin, pour orgue [1937]
- JA 120 – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orchestre [1937]
- JA 120D – Sarabande, pour orgue, quintette à cordes et timbales [1938]
- JA 120 bis – Danse funèbre pour honorer une mémoire héroïque, pour orgue [1938]
- JA 120A – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orgue [1940]
- JA 120C – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour deux pianos [1944]
- JA 120B – Trois danses : Joies, Deuils, Luttes, pour orchestre [1945]
- 1938 – 27 years old – 21 opus
- JA 122 – Tantum ergo, pour deux voix inégales (sic) et orgue [18 January 1938]
- JA 136 – Messe modale en septuor, pour soprano, alto, flûte et quatuor à cordes ou orgue [6 August 1938]
- JA 135 – Monodie, pour orgue ou piano [8 September 1938]
- JA 135A – Monodie, pour flûte [1938]
- JA 138 – Aria, pour orgue [November 1938]
- JA 138A – Aria, pour flûte et orgue [1938]
- JA 083 – O salutaris, dit de Dugay, pour quatre voix mixtes [1938]
- JA 096 – Faux-Bourdon pour le Laudate du VIème ton, pour trois voix égales [1938]
- JA 097 – Le petit Jésus s'en va-t-à l'école, pour piano [1938]
- JA 101 – Noël nouvelet, pour trois voix mixtes [1938]
- JA 101 A – Noël nouvelet, pour orgue
- JA 112 – Que j'aime ce divin Enfant, pour trois voix mixtes [1938]
- JA 112A – Que j'aime ce divin Enfant, pour deux voix égales et orgue [1938]
- JA 113 – D'où vient qu'en cette nuitée..., pour deux voix égales et orgue [1938]
- JA 113A – D'où vient qu'en cette nuitée..., pour quatre voix mixtes [1990]
- JA 114 – Le Père Noël passera-t-il ?, pour une voix [1938]
- JA 115 – Transcription du Récit de Nazard de ClérambaultClérambaultClérambault is a 1920 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland. It concerns a father's personal outcry against the militarism of the First World War, after his son dies in combat....
, pour flûte et orgue [1938] - JA 121 – Marche de Saint Nicolas, pour deux clairons, tambour et orgue [1938]
- JA 121A – Marche des Horaces et des Curiaces, pour deux clairons, tambour et orgue [1938]
- JA 124 – Messe grégorienne de mariage, pour une voix et quatuor à cordes [1938]
- JA 125 – Messe de Requiem, pour quatre voix mixtes [1938]
- JA 126 – Fragment de la cantate de J. S. Bach Erschallet, ihr LiederErschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! , BWV 172, is a church cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach, written for Pentecost Sunday in Weimar, first performed there in the Schlosskirche on 20 May 1714.- History :In Weimar, Bach was the court organist of Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar...
, pour deux trompettes et orgue [1938] - JA 127 – Allegro du Concerto en sol majeur (sic) de HändelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
, pour deux trompettes et orgue [1938] - JA 128 – Concerto en si bémol majeur de HändelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
, pour deux trompettes et orgue [1938] - JA 137 – Prière pour nous autres charnels, pour ténor, basse et orgue [1938]
- JA 137 A – Prière pour nous autres charnels, pour orchestre [1946]
- JA 139 – L'année liturgique israëlite, pour orgue [1938]
- JA 140 – Tantum ergo, pour soprano, baryton et orgue [1938]
- 1939 – 28 years old – 3 opus
- JA 123 – Tu es Petrus, pour trois voix mixtes [1939]
- JA 141 – Salve, virilis pectoris, pour soprano, ténor et orgue [1939]
- JA 142 – O salutaris, pour soprano et orgue [1939]
- Undated – 17 opus
- JA 040 – Une scie, pour piano
- JA 041 – Il pleuvra toute la journée, pour piano
- JA 042 – Sur le mode ré, mi, fa..., pour piano
- JA 043 – Adagio, pour violoncelle et piano
- JA 044 – Amen, pour piano
- JA 045 – Un très vieux motif, pour piano
- JA 046 – Post-scriptum, pour deux pianos
- JA 048 – Théorie, pour piano
- JA 049 – Le gai liseron, pour piano
- JA 050 – Sonata, pour piano
- JA 051 – Mephisto, pour piano
- JA 052 – La peste, pour piano
- JA 053 – Exposition
- JA 054 – Sujet
- JA 055 – Comme quoi les projets les plus belliqueux..., pour piano
- JA 056 – Le bon Roi Dagobert, pour piano
- JA 059 – Histoire d'un homme qui jouait de la trompette dans la forêt vierge, pour piano