Sonata

Thomas Babou was a composer and organist who lived and worked in Liège. Unfortunately we know very little about him. He was organist at the Collégiale Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste de Liège, at least from 1687 until 1726. Thanks to his son Jean-François-Pascal Babou many pieces of father Thomas survived. Babou's music contains French and Italian influences.

I love playing Babou's compositions from the extensive edition of keyboard pieces, edited by Pierre Gouin. Especially on an instrument like this Andreas Silbermann organ, it really comes to life. Babou's compositions mostly aren't very complex, but especially melodically very beautiful.