Romantic · Belgian

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens

1823 to 1881

Belgian Romantic

Repertoire in dialogue

Portrait of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
Image: BnF (Gallica btv1b53050827r), domaine public

A protégé of Fétis, who sent him to study the Bach tradition with Adolf Hesse in Breslau, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens taught organ at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels from 1849 to 1868, where his pupils included Guilmant and Widor. Without holding a major church post, he shaped the French organ school through his technique and his "École d’orgue basée sur le plain-chant romain" (1862), and late in life founded the school of church music in Mechelen, the future Lemmensinstituut.

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The repertoire

Works in the project’s repertoire

8 works, 4 of them available to listen to.

Repertoire in dialogue

This classification reflects the place of these repertoires within the artistic and educational orientations of the project. It does not constitute a technical indication regarding the design of the instrument.

The sources

Digitised collections

Early editions and manuscripts containing works by this composer, digitised by libraries and available in full.

  • Title page of Organ school (English edition of the École d’orgue by W. T. Best)

    Organ school (English edition of the École d’orgue by W. T. Best)

    London, Schott, 1862

    Copy: Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, via Internet Archive

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