Symphonie in SI mineur - mvt 3 "Charité"

Camille Jacquemin (1899 - 1947) was a Belgian priest, composer, musicographer and organist. Louis Vierne was one of his teachers.
From the age of twelve he played the organ in the church of Saint-Mard in Virton. In 1916, he entered the episcopal minor seminary of Namur (located in the abbey of Floreffe) and deepened his musical training with the organist Louis Lejeune, with René Barbier and Auguste Verrees (1884-1957). Ordained a priest in 1922, he was sent to Bertrix as a vicar. Three years later, his diocese authorised him to continue his musical training in Paris. At the Gregorian Institute and the Schola Cantorum, he studied with Louis Vierne (organ and improvisation), Guy de Lioncourt (counterpoint) and Vincent d'Indy (composition). During these years, he was also Henri Mulet's substitute at the Saint-Philippe-du-Roule organ.

Back in Belgium in 1929, he was appointed singing teacher and choirmaster at the seminary of Floreffe where he developed an intense cultural activity. Several artists he had known in Paris stayed at the Abbey: Charles Tournemire, Joseph Bonnet, Henri Ghéon and Henri Brochet. Among his most brilliant pupils during this period was Pierre Froidebise.

With the war, the artistic and cultural life in Floreffe slowed down. The exodus had a painful influence on his health. Appointed parish priest in the village of Mont-sur-Meuse in 1941, Jacquemin suffered from depression. At the end, his state of mind was one of luminous and pacifying hope. He died prematurely at the age of forty-seven.

This is the rollicking Third and final movement of his Symphonie, "Charité"