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Author : Frederic Banjamin Stiven
Release : 1923
Genre : Charities
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Book Synopsis In the Organ Lofts of Paris by : Frederic Banjamin Stiven
Download or read book In the Organ Lofts of Paris written by Frederic Banjamin Stiven. This book was released on 1923. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Benjamin Stiven
Release : 2010
Genre : Composers
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Book Synopsis In the Organ Lofts of Paris by : Frederic Benjamin Stiven
Download or read book In the Organ Lofts of Paris written by Frederic Benjamin Stiven. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rollin Smith
Release : 1999
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis Louis Vierne by : Rollin Smith
Download or read book Louis Vierne written by Rollin Smith. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Vierne (1870-1937), a student of C�sar Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, was organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for 37 years, until his death at the console during a recital. Widor's successor as the organ's great French symphonist - an assessment the passage of time has proved correct - Vierne's music has remained in the repertoire of organists throughout the world, never undergoing the periodic eclipses experienced by his contemporaries. Vierne's autobiography, Mes Souvenirs, originally published serially in the 1930s, is here available in a profusely illustrated, extensively annotated English translation. Rollin Smith's Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral is the first major study of the great organist of Notre-Dame and includes chapters on his American tour, recordings, contemporary reminiscences, definitive textual corrections, the organ symphonies, his death and succession, and a thematic catalogue of his organ works.
Author : Anthony Hammond
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Pierre Cochereau by : Anthony Hammond
Download or read book Pierre Cochereau written by Anthony Hammond. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted organist and scholar Anthony Hammond tells the full story, for the first time, of one of the great organists of the twentieth century. Described by his teacher Marcel Dupré as "a phenomenon without equal in the history of the contemporary organ," Pierre Cochereau is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest French organists.This book tells, for the firsttime, the full story of of his extraordinary life and glittering, worldwide career. In 1955 Cochereau was appointed Organiste Titulaire at Notre-Dame de Paris, where he restored the cathedral's musical glory and oversawa far-reaching and controversial transformation of its organ. As a recitalist, he toured South America, Australia, Asia, Canada, and Europe in addition to twenty-five tours of the United States. He was the first western organist to perform in the former Soviet Union., played with many major orchestras under the batons of distinguished conductors, participated in numerous music festivals in Europe, made over eighty recordings, and was one of the founders of the Chartres International Organ Competition. He was honored several times for his achievements, including being named an Officer of the Legion of Honor (1978). A tireless campaigner for standards in music education, Cochereau also served as director at many of France's prominent conservatories, including Le Mans, Lyons, and Nice, which under his directorhsip became one of the leading music schools in France. Biographer AnthonyHammond draws from a variety of of prominent primary sources, notably Marcel Dupré's papers in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, but also from Cochereau's surviving family and friends, and uses recordings and previously overlooked archive films in the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France to construct this definitive account and critical appraisal of one of France's most distinguished organists. Anthony Hammond is an English concert organist, improviser, and musicologist who specializes in French Romantic and twentieth-century organ music.
