Florence GÉTREAU, Nicolas SARRE, The Trois mélodies pour le violoncelle avec accompagnement d'orgue expressif dedicated to Marquis de Corberon by Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly.

Abstract

We discovered the autograph, unpublished manuscript of these Trois mélodies pour
le violoncelle avec accompagnement d'orgue expressif dedicated to Marquis de
Corberon in the orchestra material of the Society of Ancient Music (Société de
Musique d’Autrefois) in the Musée de la Musique. Nicolas Sarre retraces the biography of the dedicatee, Marqui Daniel-Jean-Charles Bourrée de Corberon (1780-
1868), well known music lover whose precious Stradivari cello is conserved in the
Royal Academy of Music. We then propose an identification of the type of orgue
expressif probably played by this amateur during these decades when several patents are deposited about the expressive organs. Finally, we show how these three
melodies are “auto-transcriptions” of three predated works by Boëly for church
organ. They find here a new vocation in the context of a chamber music full of
sensibility and charm.