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Henry Heron 173895 Organ Voluntary No 10 in G Fugue Full Organ
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Organ of Krzeszów Abbey -- Voluntary No. 10 in G major: 1. Largo 2. Fugue | The cheerful final item in Henry Heron's Ten Voluntaries for the Organ is a labelled a fugue . For some reason printed collections of voluntaries by 18th-c. English organists group the fugues at the end of the volume. Heron offers only one. It wears its counterpoint lightly but comes complete with the miniature French overture that an 18th-c. English organ fugue required. As was the custom both movements are marked Full Organ . This buoyant and festive piece does well in a somewhat larger acoustic, such as might have been provided in London by Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral. It is here played on the splendid 18th-c. instrument at Krzeszów (Grüssau) Abbey in Silesia. Discounting all the stops that English organ builders of the period shunned and which therefore should not be used for interpreting 18th-c. English organ music (the fourteen stops in the pedal division as well as the three 16 foots and the two undulating stops on the manuals) one is left with 31 stops. Heron's own organ at St Magnus-the-Martyr had 24 stops, which means that it was bigger than the one then found at Westminster Abbey with its 21 stops, but smaller than the organ at St Paul's, which had 28. Each of these instruments had three manuals, like the one at Krzeszów, though this also has couplers, which were not used in 18th-c. England. Salisbury cathedral had an organ built by Renatus Harris in 1710 with 33 speaking stops on four manuals (two of which served for playing the stops on the Great). The organ built by Richard Bridge for Christ Church Spitalfields in 1735 had 34 stops (to which another was added in 1779) on three manuals; it was the largest British organ of the 18th c. • The son of a dancing master, Henry Heron was born at Kingston-upon-Thames, where he was baptised in August 1738. His mother and father having died when he was 9 and 17 respectively, Henry moved to London and married Elizabeth, four years his senior. His first child, Henry Sidney, was born in February 1757 and baptised at St Andrew's Holborn, where the organist was John Stanley. Like his father, Henry evidently earned his livelihood teaching music and dancing, but, although he continued to live at Holborn, he was also for some time organist of Ewell parish church, south of London and a good 20km (14m) distant. He is listed as holding this post in a subscription list of 1762. By 1770 he had been appointed organist of St Magnus, London Bridge: in that year he published a volume containing 10 organ voluntaries from which the work heard here is taken. He held this post for the rest of his life. At some point he moved from Holborn to Newington Butts, south of the River Thames. Assisted by his eldest son, he continued to run a school of dancing and music, apparently in his house; in his will, newly made after Elizabeth had died in 1794, he left his property equally to his five children and instructed his eldest son to continue to run the school until the lease expired. Henry died in June 1795 and was buried alongside his wife in the churchyard of St Magnus. (Biographical research by http://rousseau.shp.media/, not yet reflected on the title page at the beginning of the video) • I have uploaded more recordings of Heron voluntaries: (to be updated) • a_osiander(at)gmx.net / www.andreas-osiander.net
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