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Church and organ

The church St Martin
Church St Martin - Seurre - Burgundy
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The church St Martin is famous for his architecture, its organ Julien Tribuot of 1699 and its chime of 47 bells.
The church was built at the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the altered fourteenth and several times. Side chapels were added to the 15e century and in first half of the 16th century.
The first vault on the right is gone back to 1411. The third vault on the left date of 1501 and comprises the marks of the families Bossuet and Berbis.
The chorus was prolonged by an apse in 1655. The bell-tower was rebuilt of 1741 to 1743 per Jean Thomas, architect with Chalon on the Saone.
The second left vault was built in 1862. Consolidation and repair work of the church took place in 1880 and 1881.
On the technical level, the building is out of limestone, stone of size, brick and side of wood. The cover is in tile punt and slate. The vault is in warheads, with keystones.
Decoration comprises stained glasses, a rosette with the top of the porch, sculptures and tables. One finds also a boat ex-voto close to the side entry.
To see : the mystery of saint Martin, in 1496 in Seurre.
 

Orgue Julien Tribuot - Eglise St Martin - Seurre
The organ Julien Tribuot

The organ of Seurre was built by Julien Tribuot, Parisian organ builder originating in Burgundy, and finished in October 1699. With the origin, the organ was with the Cistercian abbey of Maizières (St Loup de la Salle - 71).
See this link http://www.saint-loup-geanges.com   then tourisme - patrimoine, then abbaye de Maizières
The notoriety of Julien Tribuot enabled him to be associated to Robert Clicquot to carry out the organ of the Royal Vault of Versailles, about 1708.

The organ was bought by the parish of Seurre in 1791 (or 1793), when the abbey was sold to private individuals.
Preserved at the four fifths, the organ was restored in 1991 by the organ builder Bernard Aubertin. The organ is used each year for concerts of old music and recordings of musical works.

The historical organ of Seurre is recognized like a masterpiece of our partrimoine. It is a witness of what was the French school of the end of the seventeenth century (Grigny, Couperin, Boyvin, Raison, Nivers, Jullien...).

For the anecdote, will know that "organ" is male in the singular and generally female in the plural.

Listen the organ of Seurre     (mp3 - 1'20")

(Nicolas de Grigny, Les cinq hymnes - Les chantres du Roy et Jean-Pierre Lecaudey à l'orgue Julien Tribuot de l'église Saint-Martin de Seurre, Pavane records, 1999).  

 

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