Victor Togni - ALLELUIA (Five liturgical inventions for Organ)

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This is just an excerpt from a video I'll post this Saturday at 4.30 pm, featuring the Alleluia by esteemed Swiss Canadian artist Victor Togni.
Victor Togni was born on 1935 in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) of Swiss parents.
His musical studies were begun at the Abbey of Einsiedeln in Switzerland and continued at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, the Ecole Normale de musique and the National Conservatory in Paris, the Royal College of Music in London, and the Geneva Conservatory.
His teachers included Fernando Germani, Olivier Messiaen, Marcel Dupré, Rolande Falcinelli, Jean Langlais and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.

Togni's reputation as a performer and improviser gained international recognition through his many recitals and broadcasts in cities of Europe, Africa, England, the United States and Canada, where he was a frequent recitalist in musical centres and for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
He was first an organist, composer, conductor, improviser and harpsicordist. He had passion for jazz as well.

On March 29, 1965, he was on his way to Montreal to record a recital for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation when the car in which was riding with his producer was hit by a transport truck near Gananoque, Ontario, and he was killed.
So, unfortunately, he died very young, at the age of only 30.

Nevertheless, he had a phenomenal career. Here are some of the awards he received:
- First prize improvisation contest - Casavant prize
- A.G.O. Convention, Philadelphia 1964
- Premier prix de virtuosite, Geneva Conservatory 1963
- First prize Rochette improvisation contest, Geneva 1963
- Prix Otto Barblan, Geneva 1963
- ARCM London, England
- Maestro Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome
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