Théodore-César Salomé was a French organist

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

 and composer

Composer

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.

Biography

Théodore Salomé was born in Paris

Paris

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. He completed all of his musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

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, under the tutelage of François Bazin

François Bazin

François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century. His works are not widely performed today.-Biography:...

 for harmony

Harmony

In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...

 and accompaniment

Accompaniment

In music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with an instrumental or vocal soloist or ensemble, often known as the lead, in a supporting manner...

, and François Benoist

François Benoist

François Benoist was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.Benoist was born in Nantes. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1815 for his cantata Œnone. In 1819, he became organist and professor of organ at the Conservatoire; he held the latter post for...

 for organ. He won several honorable awards, including: second prize in harmony (1855), second prize in organ and in harmony (1856), second and third prize in harmony and organ (1857), and second prize in harmony (1859). His cantata Atala was awarded the premier Second Grand Prix of the Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

 in 1861. In the same year Théodore Dubois

Théodore Dubois

François-Clément Théodore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher.-Biography:Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861...

 was awarded the first grand prize, and Eugène Anthiome and Titus Constantin won the deuxième Second Grand Prix.

In 1863, the architect

Architect

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 Théodore Ballu began the construction of the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris. (He had already built the Basilique Sainte-Clotilde

Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris

The Basilica of Saint Clotilde is a basilica church in Paris, located on the Rue Las Cases, in the area of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It is best known for its imposing twin spires.-History:...

 in 1861 and would construct the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Paris

Hôtel de Ville, Paris

The Hôtel de Ville |City Hall]]) in :Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris's administration. Standing on the place de l'Hôtel de Ville in the city's IVe arrondissement, it has been the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357...

 some ten years later). Situated in the 9th arrondissement of Paris on Estienne-d'Orves Square, Sainte-Trinité was blessed in November 1867. It was not consecrated

Consecration

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, however, until 1913, the eve of World War I

World War I

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. The reason for this forty-six year gap is unknown. La Trinité, although rather austere, was in that period one of the most important churches in Paris. Among the parishioners of this affluent congregation were Charles Gounod

Charles Gounod

Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...

 and Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...

, who were both quite fond of Salomé. Gounod sent several students to Salomé for organ lessons, including his dear friend, Paul Poirson. Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...

, Ambroise Thomas

Ambroise Thomas

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.-Biography:"There is good music, there is bad music, and then there is Ambroise Thomas."- Emmanuel Chabrier-Early life...

 and François Bazin

François Bazin

François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century. His works are not widely performed today.-Biography:...

 also sent composition students to him.

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was a French organ builder. He is considered by many to be the greatest organ builder of the 19th century because he combined both science and art to make his instruments...

 installed in this new church a grand organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

 of 46 ranks across three manuals

Manual (music)

A manual is a keyboard designed to be played with the hands on a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. The term "manual" is used with regard to any hand keyboard on these instruments to distinguish it from the pedalboard, which is a keyboard that the organist plays...

 and pedal, which was inaugurated March 16, 1869 by Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

, César Franck

César Franck

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....

, and Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...

. At the same time, Cavaillé-Coll also built a choir organ of 12 ranks over two manuals and pedal. Théodore Salomé, who had already occupied the post of choir organist for several years on a temporary organ, continued his services in this position until his death in 1895. Claude Terrasse

Claude Terrasse

Claude Terrasse , was a French composer of operettas.Claude Terrasse was considered by some as the true successor to Jacques Offenbach , one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy.Terrasse was born in L'Arbresle, Rhône...

, better known for his operetta

Operetta

Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

s (Monsieur de la Palisse, Le mariage de Télémaque, and Cartouche) rather than for his activities as a liturgical

Liturgy

Liturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...

 organist, succeeded him, a peculiar choice. Upon the completion of the new Cavaillé-Coll grand organ, Alexis Chauvet was awarded the post of organiste titulaire, which he held for only three years. And, upon Chauvet’s untimely death in 1871, his post of was awarded to Alexandre Guilmant

Alexandre Guilmant

Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...

. Replacing Guilmant at the grand organ during the latter’s concert tours in the United States. Guilmant and Salomé became great friends, dedicating numerous compositions to each other. Théodore Salomé played for mass

Mass

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es and religious services with great talent and knowledge. His religious compositions were often sung by the choir of Sainte-Trinité, which was composed of some 20 children and 10 professional singers, under the capable direction of their choirmaster, Emile Bouichere. It was there, that on the 5th of June 1875, that Salomé presided at the organ for the funeral mass of Georges Bizet, in the presence of 4000 people. For a prélude

Prelude (music)

A prelude is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude can be thought of as a preface. It may stand on its own or introduce another work...

, Salomé improvised on themes from Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles

Les pêcheurs de perles

Les pêcheurs de perles is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was first performed on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, and was given 18 performances in its initial run...

("The Pearl Fishers") then during the absolution

Absolution

Absolution is a traditional theological term for the forgiveness experienced in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This concept is found in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Eastern Orthodox churches, the Anglican churches, and most Lutheran churches....

 improvised on themes from Carmen

Carmen

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

.

Saint-Saëns highly recommended Salomé for the post as organiste titulare at La Trinité upon the death of Alexis Chauvet. In a letter to the pastor, Saint-Saëns writes:

"Permit me to recommend to you a young organist whom I am interested in your extending the warmest welcome. I had chosen him to replace me at the grand organ ot the Madeleine

Église de la Madeleine

L'église de la Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army...

, and I can add that he has fulfilled this task in the most brilliant fashion. I have only heard compliments. Your grand organ is destined for M. Salomé – and you couldn't make a better choice."

Gounod wrote a letter to the pastor some four weeks later (a bit too late) after Guilmant was to be hired:

"I have learned in London at this very moment from one of my friends, the death of the poor organist Chauvet, [titulare] of the grand organ of our parish. It is a great loss! There are few Chauvets, unfortunately. But, I have learned at the same time that the position will be given to a Belgian organist, whose name I do not know. It seems to me very regrettable in the midst of so much French sorrow, to have looked at a foreigner when you have there, under your hand, a true talent, the young Salomé who should be able to be promoted to this position. God keeps me, monsieur le curé, from any unforgettable gesture, but if you pardon me and permit me, and even approve my bringing these claims. I esteem that the master who is at our door [Salomé] is better than one from abroad; he belongs to us. I hope that you will not make a lie of the proverb: A prophet is not welcome in his own land. Receive, dear monsieur le curé, my sentiments of profound regret."

Bizet also offered to write a recommendation for Salomé, but to no avail.

Salomé sat in on juries, solfège

Solfege

In music, solfège is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solfège syllable...

 and composition exams at the Conservatoire de Paris when available, but his church work always came first. He even wrote to his pastor in August 1887 asking for a raise to at least as much as what his colleagues at the churches of Saint-Augustin

Église Saint-Augustin de Paris

The Église Saint-Augustin de Paris is a church in the VIIIe arrondissement of Paris, France. Here Charles de Foucauld was converted by its priest, Father Huvelin. During the Second Empire, this area was undergoing considerable building work and demographic movement...

, Saint-Louis, and La Madeleine were making.

His pieces for piano, with charming and evocative names, were included in the "Pantheon of Pianists" published by the Parisian editor Henry Lemoine

Henry Lemoine

Henry Lemoine was a French piano teacher, publisher and composer. Although his compositions are generally unimportant, his piano method and harmony textbook are still of much interest to those learning the instrument....

 at the beginning of the 20th century: Aubade ("Dawn serenade"), op. 38; Berceuse ("Lullaby"), op. 36; Le Bocage ("The wooded farmland"), op. 51; Danse mauresque ("Moorish dance"), op. 34; Fleur d'Aragon ("Flower of Aragon

Aragon

Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...

"), op. 35; Rose de mai ("May rose"), op. 33; Tante Aurore ("Aunt Aurora"), op. 32; Vielle chanson ("Old song"), op.31. In addition to his piano pieces, there exists some symphonic

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

 fragments of his compositions that were performed by the Société Nationale de Musique

Société Nationale de Musique

The Société Nationale de Musique was founded on February 25, 1871 to promote French music and to allow young composers to present their music in public...

 in 1877. These compositions aroused the interest of the specialists who found them excellent writing which portended a brilliant future for the composer. Théodore Salomé, however, preferred to dedicate himself entirely to his activities as organist and choirmaster.

Upon her visit to La Trinité in November 1893, Fannie Edgar Thomas, "Church Music Correspondent" for the New York Musical Courier

Musical Courier

The Musical Courier was a 19th and 20th century American music trade publication which began publication in 1880 and became noted as preeminent in its field....

, described M. Salomé, at age 59, as a handsome man "with his fine silver hair, slender, gentle face, pink cheeks, tender mouth and appealing brown eyes, dressed in an easy dark coat and vest, with gray trousers, and no evident personal ambition." Eighteen years earlier, in 1875, he married Céleste Condrot, and moved into his new home at 70, rue Saint-Lazare, just one block from La Trinité. Fifteen years his junior, Céleste gave birth to a son – their only child, René. He was seen by his friends as a poet

Poet

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, or man of letters, who never married.

It appears that they were a close family, with particular devotion to his mother-in-law, Virginie-Marie Condrot. In 1885, Salomé composed his Offertoire pour grand orgue (in D-flat), published in Paris by Mackar and dedicated to his mother-in-law, Madame V. Condrot. This piece gained immense popularity in America. Alexandre Guilmant

Alexandre Guilmant

Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer.- Short biography :Guilmant was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer...

 performed the work in his first recital on his American Tour in 1893 and at the 1904 World's Fair

Louisiana Purchase Exposition

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1904.- Background :...

 in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

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. It was also one of the most popular rolls that was available in Estey Pipe Organ Roll Collection. The piece was subsequently published in America by G. Schirmer alone and then in various Victorian

Victorian era

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 collections. Salomé himself, even transcribed this piece for full orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 under the title Sérénade (Mackar et Noël, 1892). John Henderson states that "the Offertoire in D-flat has to be one of the worst pieces of organ music ever written!"

In 1896, Salomé and his family took sabbatical in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Saint-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...

 (Yvelines

Yvelines

Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.-History:Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application from 26 February 1965.It gained the...

) where they made their home to the end of their lives, never returning to the church. The Musical Courier of August 12, 1896 published the following obituary by William C. Carl:

"Last week the sad news of M. Théodore Salomé’s death was received, and M. Guilmant was very much affected by it, as they had been together at La Trinité for twenty-five years, and naturally there was a strong bond of friendship. M. Salomé was only ill for about ten days, and his sudden death was a surprise to all, and greatly regretted by everyone. He had much talent and was an artist of high rank. M. Salomé was of a retiring disposition, but with a most amiable and attractive manner that made one feel at once that he was their friend.

His funeral was held at Saint-Germain, in the église paroissiale, on Wednesday, July 22. Mr. Guilmant played the grand organ, choosing for the selections: First, prélude in E minor, J. S. Bach , and second, the Absoute, by M. Salomé.

M. Caron [baritone soloist from La Trinité connected with the Grand Opéra] sang his Pie Jesu, and his cantabile for violin was also played.

The choir of La Trinité rendered the music under the direction of M. Planchet (the maître de chapelle).

I know that M. Salomé's death will be much regretted in America, where his music has found much favor and is frequently performed."

A much shorter obituary followed in The Musical Times of September 1, praising Salomé for his organ compositions "which are greatly esteemed by organists of this country [America].

"Parallel to his activities at Sainte-Trinité, our Prix de Rome winner Monsieur Salomé, was also professor of solfège at the National Conservatory of Music of Paris, professor of Music at the College Rollin, as well as choirmaster at the Saint-Louis School.

Théodore Salomé left some very admirable pages for the organ, among which one remembers a collection of Dix Pièces pour orgue in three volumes and another of Douze Pièces Nouvelles pour orgue, published by Leduc. Volume 3 of Maîtres parisiens de l’orgue au XXe siècle (1936) contains two of Salomé’s canons (op. 21, nos. 1 and 3).

Despite M. Salomé’s position among the major figures in European composition during the second half of the nineteenth century, it was probably the change of aesthetic orientation which began about the turn of the century leading to a radical move away from the conservative-classical ideals to which he (like Guilmant and Dubois) had felt committed, that led to his demise among organ repertoire."

Théodore Salomé, his wife, and son share the Condrot-Gault family mausoleum

Mausoleum

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 at Père Lachaise Cemetery

Père Lachaise Cemetery

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, which includes a moss encrusted granite sculpture of a prie-dieu

Prie-dieu

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with an open covered book.

Works published with opus number

• Atala, op. 4, (1861)
• Offertoire pour grand orgue, ré bémol, op. 8 (Mackar, 1885), à Madame V. Condrot
• Romance sans paroles pour piano, op. 9, (Noël)
• Scherzo pour piano, op. 16 (Hamelle)
• Trois canons pour grand orgue, op. 21 (Mackar et Noël, 1894), à mon ami Alexandre Guilmant
• Aragonesa-mia, Caprice espagnol, pour piano, op. 22( Noël)
• Kyrie à trois voix avec orgue, op. 24, (Noël)
• Première Sonate pour orgue, op. 25 (Schott, 1884)
• Tantum ergo avec orgue, op. 27, (Noël) TTBB
• Sourires d’enfant, 6 esquisses pour piano, op. 28 (Lemoine)

1. Doux souvenir

2. Badinage

3. Chasse

4. La Chatoyante

5. Marche

6. Pastorale

• Six Morceaux pour orgue, op. 29 (Schott, 1888) à mon ami Alexandre Guilmant

1. Mélodie

2. Valse

3. Offrande à la Madone

4. Intermezzo

5. Marche

6. Échos villageois

• Messe brève à 3 voix égales, op. 30 (Leduc)
• Vieille chanson pour piano, op. 31 (Lemoine)
• Tante Aurore pour piano, op. 32 (Lemoine)
• Rose de mai pour piano, op. 33 (Lemoine)
• Danse mauresque pour piano, op. 34 (Lemoine)
• Fleur d’Aragon pour piano, op. 35 (Lemoine)
• Berceuse pour piano, op. 36 (Lemoine)
• Les lutins roses, 6 récréations pour piano, op. 37 (Lemoine

1. Berceuse

2. Ronde

3. Les petits bergers, pastorale

4. Trompette et tambour

5. Marine

6. Galopade

• Aubade, bis, pour piano, op. 38 (Lemoine)
• Marche française pour piano, op. 39 (Lemoine)
• Quatre pièces faciles et doigtées pour piano, op. 41 (Société nouvelle)

1. Menuet

2. Bourrée

3. Villageoise

4. Valse

• Mélodie suédoise pour piano, op. 42 (Hamelle)
• Graziella, caprice pour piano, op. 43 (Hamelle)
• Souvenir d’enfance, 6 petits morceaux de genre très faciles, sans octaves et soigneusement doigtés, pour piano, op. 44

1. Le cerf-volant

2. Colin-Maillard

3. Les quatre coins

4. Cache-cache

5. Berceuse de la poupée

6. La main chaude

• Fleur printainière, op. 45 (Hamelle)
• Les Farfadets, caprice pour piano, op. 46 (Hamelle)
• Les Myosotis, valse pour piano, op. 47 (Hamelle)
• Dix pièces pour orgue, vol. 3, op. 48 (Schott 1894)

1. Marche gothique (à Monsieur R.H. Woodman)

2. Prière (à Monsieur Philip Hale)

3. Rhapsodie pastorale (à Monsieur Arthur Foote)

4. Églogue écossaise (à Monsieur William Huber)

5. Fugue (à Monsieur G. Smith)

6. Offertoire (à Monsieur J. Kendrick Pyne)

7. Épithalame (à Monsieur Filippo Capocci)

8. Minuetto (à Monsieur I. V. Flager)

9. Andantino (à Monsieur William C. Carl)

10. Allegro symphonique (à Monsieur William T. Best)

• Danse la montagne pour piano, op. 50 (Hamelle)
• Le Bocage pur piano, op. 51 (Lemoine)
• Douze pièces nouvelles pour orgue, vol. 1, op. 52 (Laudy)
• Cantabile pour violin avec piano ou orgue, inédit (Lemoine, 1893)
• La Moscovite, fantaisie-valse, pour piano, op. 53 (Hamelle)
• Les Bluets, trois esquisse musicales, pour piano, op. 55 (Hamelle)

1. Chanson russe

2. Tyrolienne

3. Dans la prairie

• Stella, valse de salon, pour piano, op. 56 (Hamelle)
• Sérénade villageoise pour piano, op. 58 (Hamelle)
• Romance, op. 57 (Hamelle) – transcription from op. 29 for violin and organ
• Douze pièces nouvelles pour orgue, vol. 1, op. 59 (Leduc, 1894)

1. Marche (to C.W. Perkins, esquire)

2. Aspiration religieuse (to Alfred Eyre, esquire)

3. Églogue (to W. de Manby Sergison, esquire)

4. Grand Chœur (to James Shaw, esquire)

5. Berceuse (to C.V. Stanford, esquire)

6. Andante pastorale (to W. Mullineux, esquire)

7. Menuet symphonique (to E. Townshend Driffield, esquire)

8. Romance (to James Strachan, esquire)

9. Offertoire (to Sir John Stainer, Mus.Dr.)

10. Pièce symphonique (to Sir Walter Parratt)

11. Cantabile (to D.J. Wood, esquire)

12. Marche (to Fountain Meen, esquire)

• Aubade navarraise, op. 60 (Lemoine)
• Canzonetta, op. 61 (Lemoine)
• Dix récréations facile et doigtées pour piano, op. 62 (Société nouvelle)

1. Tendre mère, mélodie

2. Minette et Jacquot, polka

3. Valse tyrolienne

4. Jeanne, mazurka

5. Chant des moissonneurs

6. Troisième berceuse

7. La Fête de bonne maman, compliment

8. Galop

9. Montagnarde

10. Petits soldats, marche

• Douze pièces nouvelles pour orgue, vol. 2, op. 63 (Leduc, 1896)

1. Marche nuptiale (à Monsieur Clarence Eddy)

2. Mater Amabilis (à Madame Th. Salomé)

3. Prélude (à Monsieur William Edward Mulligan)

4. Élégie (à Monsieur Clément Loret)

5. Cantilène, pastorale (à Monsieur Samuel Rousseau)

6. Légende (à Monsieur Edward Cutler)

7. Sortie Solennelle (à Monsieur E. T. Driffield)

8. Scherzo (à Monsieur R. Ernest Bryson)

9. Adorate Dominum (à Monsieur H. J. Stewart)

10. Lamento (à Monsieur Harold Bond Nason)

11. Intermezzo (à Monsieur Filippo Capocci)

12. Marche religieuse (à Monsieur Aug. Wiegand; City Organist, Sydney, Australie)

• Sérénade espagnole pour piano, op. 64a (Hamelle)
• Villanelle pour orgue – in the collection “Vox Organi” – vol. 3, op. 64 (J. B. Millet Co., 1896)
• Marche joyeuse pour piano, op. 65 (Hamelle)
• Fleur de lotus, romance sans paroles, pour piano, op. 66 (Hamelle)
• Douze versets de Magnificat et cinq sorties, opp. 67 & 68 (Hamelle) à Monsieur Aloys Claussmann
• Huit pièces, op. 67 (Hamelle, 1910)

Works published without opus number

• À Venise, mélodie de Meyerbeer, pour piano (Benoit)
• Aubade pour piano (Lemoine)
• Autum Winds, nocturne pour piano (Ellis)
• Ave Maria (Girod)
• Ave Verum (Girod)
• Berceuse pour piano (Lemoine)
• Bocage, impromptu pastoral, pour piano (Lemoine)
• Cantabile, pour harmonium (Mustel)
• Dix pièces pour orgue, vol. 1, (Leduc, 1875) À son maître Monsieur F. Benoist

1. Offertoire

2. Grand chœur

3. En forme de canon

4. Offertoire

5. Invocation

6. Mélodie

7. Offertoire

8. En forme de canon

9. Cantilène

10. Grand Chœur

• Dix pièces pour orgue, vol. 2 (Leduc, 1879)

1. Pastorale (à mon ami Alexandre Guilmant)

2. Absoute (à mon ami Amédée Mager)

3. Verset

4. Offertoire (à mon ami Henri Fissot)

5. Offertoire (à Monsieur Alphonse Mailly)

6. Fugue (à mon ami Théodore Dubois)

7. Pastorale (à Monsieur Cavaillé-Coll)

8. Andantino (à Monsieur Eugène Gigout)

9. Verset

10. Marche (to W.T. Best, Esquire)

• Pendant l’Office : 100 morceaux divisés en 10 offices, dont 2 offices funèbres (Leduc 1889), à mon ami Henri Hess
• Cantabile pour grand orgue : transcription par Léon Lemoine (Henry Lemoine, 1912)

Sources

• J.R. Daniels, Théodore Salomé dissertation [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA, May 2008]
• Bibliothèque nationale de France [sources in this repository?]
• Carolyn Shuster Fournier [interviewed, March 2000]
• Jean-Claude LaFond (great-great nephew of Théodore Salomé) [March 2000]
• Musica et Memoria (Le Prix de Rome) Palmarès de tous les lauréats du Prix de Rome en composition musicale, cf. 1861

External links