DESCRIPTION:
Théodore Dubois Marche - Sortie [1900] Willem van Twillert plays the Meere-Organ at Epe [NL]
Audio recording: Marien Stouten
Camera: Lodewic van Twillert Marien Stouten, Matthijs van der Bent
Editing audio:Marien Stouten
Editing video: Lodewic van Twillert
Registrant: Matthijs van der Bent

Théodore DUBOIS (1837-1924) leed onder miskenning omdat zijn composities niet vernieuwend zijn zoals van zijn grote voorbeeld en collega César Franck. Dubois is dankzij de uitgaven van Bärenreiter nu compleet verschenen met zijn orgelwerk. Dubois heeft zich in 1901 geblameerd toen hij weigerde om Maurice Ravel een onderscheiding te verlenen.

ENGLISH
Théodore DUBOIS (1837-1924) suffered misunderstanding because his compositions are not innovative such as those of his great example and colleague César Franck. Thanks to the publications of Bärenreiter, Dubois has now completely appeared with his organ work. Dubois was old-fashioned. For example, he was opposed to the distinction they wanted to give to M. Ravel, which made Dubois resigned.
Would you like to see another master work?
J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in d [BWV565] NABER-organ, Amersfoort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ElCf68Ufs

WILLEM VAN TWILLERT (1952) studied organ at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Piet Kee as his Organ professor, with whom he also studied improvisation and composition. In 1975 he began 3 years of orchestral conducting studies with Anton Kersjes. In 1976 he obtained the diploma for Church Music and in 1978 the diploma of Performing Musician cum laude, with a teaching-endorsement for improvisation. A scholarship afforded him the opportunity to specialize in old music between 1978 and 1981, including studies with Gustav Leonhardt and Klaas Bolt.
In 1976, van Twillert was the first Dutch organist to reach the final of the Grand Prix de Chartres in France.

As an organist he has become a well-known performing musician both at home and abroad, thanks mainly to his concerts in the Netherlands, as well as in the U.S.A., Italy (including, in 1996, a concert for the Academia di Musica Italiana per Organo in Pistoia), Germany and England. In 1991 van Twillert was invited by the American Guild of Organists to act as a jury member for the regional competition for young professional organists in Ohio, where he also gave a lecture about the history of Dutch psalm singing at the Calvin College in Sioux-center.

Willem van Twillert has composed many Psalm and Chorale arrangements, the earliest of which was influenced by his studies of 18th-century German organ literature. These have been printed in the Netherlands, and have also been issued on CD. Since 2006 he has also composed for orchestra, and for various ensembles including choir while studying composition with Henk Alkema.

As a composer, he won the second prize and the audience prize at the Hinsz Composition Competition 2005 at the Bovenkerk in Kampen, with his Toccata a la Chaconne for Organ. http://www.hinszconcours.nl/ In October 2006, van Twillert performed the British premiere of the work, at the Annual Festival of New Organ Music in London. The performance is available for download at www.afnom.org.
In January 2007 Van Twillert obtained the Prize of Honour in the Polish composer competition at Mikolów 2007 with his Sequence for Choir and Organ. See: www.mdm.mikolow.um.gov.pl/konkursn.htm
In Germany his Toccata ‚Thine be the Glory in Romantic Style, is published by. Butz-music publishers. Email@butz-verlag.de
In 2008 he received for his organ composition Par le Temps the PRIX GASTON LITAIZE during the festival du Comminges in France. www.festival-du-comminges.com

In Germany his Toccata ‚Thine be the Glory' in Romantic Style, is published by Dr. J. Butz, music publishers, Sankt Augustin. Email@butz-verlag.de

Willem van Twillert taught organ at the municipal academy of music in Zwolle between 1980 and 1988. As a church organist, he has, since his appointment following a competition in 1979, accompanied the services of three co-operating churches in Amersfoort. The organ lovers of the Netherlands also know him as one of the editors of the monthly magazine de Orgelvriend (the Organ Friend), a function he fulfilled between 1985 and 2006. From 1976 until 2003 van Twillert was the owner and director of a private music school in Bunschoten, and, in 2004 he was invited to give organ lectures for a week at the music academy of Sarajevo (Bosnia) on behalf of the Alkmaar foundation, Musicians without Borders.
Willem van Twillert's performances have been featured in several Dutch radio series.