Jacques Berthier

Jacques Berthier (27 June 1923 – 27 June 1994) was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé.

Biography

Berthier was born in Auxerre, Burgundy; both of his parents were musicians - his father Paul was the kapellmeister and organist at the Auxerre Cathedral. Learning first from his parents, Berthier was trained in music at the École César Franck in Paris. While there, he was taught by, among others, Edouard Souberbielle and Guy de Lioncourt (whose daughter he married).

In 1955 Berthier was first asked to compose music for the Taizé Community, which was then just a monastic community of twenty brothers. Six years later he became organist at the Church of the Jesuits in Paris, Saint-Ignace, where he worked until his death. In 1975, Berthier was again asked to compose for Taizé, this time for chants to be sung by the increasing numbers of young people coming to worship there. Over nearly twenty years, Berthier built up a body of church music that has been utilized around the world.

He died at his home in Paris in 1994, and requested that none of his own music be used in his funeral at Saint-Sulpice. In 2006, the Jubilate Deo Award was granted to him posthumously and accepted by Brother Jean-Marie (Taizé). His son is Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt.

Music

In more than twenty years, Berthier left an important corpus (232 songs in 20 different languages) in wide use today by other communities and around the world. He is also the author of Masses for organ, a cantata in the form of the cross and a cantata for Saint Cecilia.

Taizé songs

The current edition of the song booklet used by the Taizé Community contains 71 songs written by Jacques Berthier.

1 : Dans nos obscurités
2 : Wait for the Lord
3 : Bleibet hier
5 : Bless the Lord
7 : Notre âme attend
8 : C’est toi ma lampe
9 : Jésus le Christ
10 : Laudate Dominum
11 : Oculi nostri
12 : De noche
13 : Veni Creator (litanie)
14 : Tui amoris
15 : Ubi caritas
16 : Bénissez le Seigneur
17 : El Senyor
18 : Confitemini Domino
19 : Magnificat (canon)
20 : Adoramus te Christe
21 : Christe Salvator
22 : Veni Creator (canon)
23 : Laudate omnes gentes
24 : Singt dem Herrn
25 : Gloria... et in terra pax
26 : La ténèbre
29 : Ostende nobis
32 : Mon âme se repose
33 : Nunc dimittis
34 : Cantate Domino (canon)
35 : Bonum est confidere
36 : Spiritus Jesu Christi
37 : Jesus, remember me
38 : Psallite Deo
40 : Surrexit Christus
41 : Magnificat (choral)
43 : Veni Lumen (choral)
44 : Adoramus te O Christe
45 : Christus resurrexit
46 : In te confido
47 : Per crucem / Vater unser
48 : Crucem tuam
49 : Surrexit Dominus vere
50 : Nada te turbe
52 : Veni Sancte Spiritus
53 : Dona la pace Signore
54 : Toi, tu nous aimes
55 : Da pacem cordium
56 : Sanctum nomen Domini
57 : Vieni Spirito creatore
58 : Misericordias Domini
60 : O Christe Domine Jesu
61 : Jubilate Coeli
63 : Benedictus (canon)
65 : Dona nobis pacem
68 : Alleluia 4
69 : Alleluia 7
70 : Alleluia 8
71 : Alleluia 10
72 : Alleluia 11
79 : Kyrie eleison 1
80 : Kyrie eleison 5
81 : Kyrie eleison 6
82 : Kyrie eleison 8
83 : Kyrie eleison 9
84 : Kyrie eleison 10
85 : Kyrie eleison 12
86 : Kyrie eleison 13
91 : Veni Lumen cordium I
92 : Veni Lumen cordium II
117 : Nebojte se
141 : Bleib mit deiner Gnade
143 : Eat this bread / Jesus Christ, bread of life

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