Helga Schauerte-Maubouet (born 8 March 1957) is a German-French organist, musicologist, writer, music editor and academic teacher. Based at the Christuskirche, Paris, she has recorded the complete organ works of Jehan Alain, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J. S. Bach, as well as portraits of composers Buttstett, Corrette, Reger, Boëllmann, Dubois and Langlais. She has worked as a concert organist in Europe and throughout the US. She has taught at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.
Life and work
Helga Schauerte was born in Lennestadt.[1] She made her first public appearance at age ten. From age 13 she worked as organist in Lennestadt. She studied with Viktor Lukas in Cologne, graduating in music, pedagogy and philosophy, and studied music further in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain, completing with a Premier Prix.[2] She is the organist of the German church in Paris, Christuskirche. She played world premieres of music by Jean Langlais, with Miniature II dedicated to her.
Her career has been influenced by German and French music. She founded a Bach-organ-academy in Pontaumur (Auvergne, France) in 2006. She wrote the first book in German on Jehan Alain's music,[1] and acquired some forty of this composer's musical autographs. She has taught at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.[1] She is also lecturer and jury member for international organ competitions.
2020 Gabriel Fauré, Œuvres complètes, Série I, vol. 4: Musique vocale religieuse pour voix, orgue et instruments (BA 9478-01)
Publications
Jehan Alain (1911–1940), das Orgelwerk (= Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung, 137). Bosse, Regensburg, 1983, ISBN 3-7649-2289-3.
Jehan Alain, mourir à trente ans. Delatour, Sampzon, 2020, ISBN 978-2-7521-0399-4, translated into English by Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Connie Glessner: Jehan Alain, Understanding His Musical Genius, Delatour France, Sampzon, 2022
