Fantasie des Trompettes (1709)

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.

For the occasion I didn't use a typical French baroque organ, but the model of the Klais organ of Braunschweig. It has a fair amount of strong reeds (from 16' till 4') on the manuals, which I used. Sometimes I play an octave higher than notated, sometimes an octave lower.