Amédée Reuchsel (1875-1931, roughly like Vierne) was a French organist and kapellmeister in Paris. Not to be confounded with his son, Eugene Reuchsel, a concert pianist who also composed for the organ (Promenades en Provence, etc.).
The Postlude Festival was composed around 1905. Two mysteries about it :
- the title, which is meaningless in French and would be Festival Postlude if it intended to be in English ;
- the second theme : it sounds very British, quasi elgarian, and well-known. Thanks to anybody who can tell which tune it is !
The Postlude itself is a French toccata, very similar in form to the final from Guilmant's 1st sonata :
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0:00 exposition of the toccata (d minor)
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1:58 second theme, piano, hymn-like
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3:07 build-up and rexposition of the toccata
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5:16 second theme on the tutti
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6:16 short conclusion with the toccata in D major.
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