
Moonlight Scherzo
- Year
- 1990
- Instrumentation
- Organ
- Duration
- 7'
- Publisher
- Henry Lemoine
- Premiere
- Ann Labounsky, Tabor Lutheran Church Kane (PA) USA, July 11, 1990.
for organ
Published by Combre in 1990. Based on the popular song "Au clair de la lune", "Moonlight Scherzo" is dedicated to Colette Geneste, who directed the French publication Combre and was very dedicated to Jean Langlais' organ works. It is a testimony of his friendship to her.
ERRORS IN TRHE PUBLISHED WORK
p.3, bar 6, left hand, last chord should be C#-E#-G# as in bar 4.
p.7, bar 13, left hand, last quarter, add a pause in the tenor part.
p.8, bar 6, the first note is E flat, not F flat.
p.9, bar 8, left hand, the F in the chord is natural.
p.10, bar 2, right hand, last quarter, the second sixteen should be E flat, not natural // p.10, bar 5, left hand, the second part of the measure (4 eight notes) should be similar as the first part (F natural, 2nd eight note, and F# 4rth eight note) // p.10, bar 8, right hand, second chord is C natural-F natural.
