Helga Schauerte
Schauerte-Maubouet in Pontaumur in 2011
Born (1957-03-08) 8 March 1957
Lennestadt
Occupations
  • Organist
  • Musicologist
  • Music editor
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
Awards

Helga Schauerte-Maubouet (born 8 March 1957) is a German-French organist, musicologist, writer, music editor and academic teacher. Based at the Christuskirche, Paris, she has recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach, as well as portraits of composers Buttstett, Corrette, Reger, Boëllmann, Dubois and Langlais. She has worked as a concert organist in Europe and throughout the US. She has taught at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.

Life and work

Helga Schauerte was born in Lennestadt.[1] She made her first public appearance at age ten. From age 13 she worked as organist in Lennestadt. She studied with Viktor Lukas in Cologne, graduating in music, pedagogy and philosophy, and studied music further in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain, completing with a Premier Prix.[2] She is the organist of the German church in Paris, Christuskirche. She played world premieres of music by Jean Langlais, with Miniature II dedicated to her.

Her career has been influenced by German and French music. She founded a Bach-organ-academy in Pontaumur (Auvergne, France) in 2006. She wrote the first book in German on Jehan Alain's music,[1] and acquired some forty of this composer's musical autographs. She has taught at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.[1] She is also lecturer and jury member for international organ competitions.

She has been engaged by Bärenreiter to contribute to the new edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG),[1] to write on French organ music subjects in the Handbuch Orgelmusik,[1] and to publish scholarly critical editions of the complete organ works of Léon Boëllmann, Théodore Dubois, Louis Vierne and Jehan Alain as well as of vocal music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.[1] She has also composed French Noël and German carol settings for other instruments and organ published by Merseburger Verlag.[1]

In 1987 she was awarded the cultural prize of Olpe, Germany. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and received the distinction of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Minister.[2]

Recordings

Schauerte-Maubouet recorded around 30 albums,[1] including:

Complete organ works

Portraits of organs and composers

Music editor

Schauerte-Maubouet prepared critical editions of musical works for Bärenreiter:

Complete organ Works

Complete piano works

Choir and orchestra

  • 2004 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Te Deum H.146, 5th edition in 2018 (BA 7593)
  • 2004 Charpentier, Messe de Minuit H.9 (BA 7592)
  • 2005 Charpentier, Te Deum H.148 (BA 7591)
  • 2020 Gabriel Fauré, Œuvres complètes, Série I, vol. 4: Musique vocale religieuse pour voix, orgue et instruments (BA 9478-01)

Publications

  • Jehan Alain (1911–1940), das Orgelwerk (= Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung, 137). Bosse, Regensburg, 1983, ISBN 3-7649-2289-3.
  • Jehan Alain, mourir à trente ans. Delatour, Sampzon, 2020, ISBN 978-2-7521-0399-4, translated into English by Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Connie Glessner: Jehan Alain, Understanding His Musical Genius, Delatour France, Sampzon, 2022

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Schauerte-Maubouet, Helga" (in German). Merseburger Verlag. 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Helga Schauerte". Mariinsky Theatre. 2016. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Decourt, Aurélie. "Jehan Alain" (PDF). Jehan Alain Association. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
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