Gatty Sellars (1875-1947) was described
during his career as “the world’s greatest descriptive organist.” He played on radio and
in films, “the only organist-composer to be filmed playing his own compositions,” as
written in 1942.
Watch
him playing “At the Temple Gates” from 1931. The French publisher, Choudens, made several vocal arrangements
of the Intermezzo from the incidental music to Bizet’s “L’Arlésienne.” Years later, several arrangements
other than this excellent one by Sellars were produced: Ernest Newton, 1925; Frederic Lacey, 1931; Roland Diggle, 1939; and
Gerard Alphenaar, 1949. I think you will find that Gatty Sellars’s transcription is the superior effort. Moderately easy.
