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Cavaillé-Coll and the French romantic tradition

Title: Cavaillé-Coll and the French romantic tradition / Fenner Douglass.
Author: Douglass, Fenner.
Publication: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Douglass, Fenner.

Description

235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"Organists, scholars of the organ and its music, and listeners who love French romantic organ music will all welcome this definitive account of the early career of Aristide Cavaille-Coll, the greatest organ builder of nineteenth-century France. Based on the author's earlier Cavaille-Coll and the Musicians, this book describes Cavaille-Coll's relationships with Cesar Franck and such other contemporary composer/organists as Lefebure-Wely, Danjou, and Lemmens.
Fenner Douglass draws on previously unavailable primary archives to highlight the projects that were pivotal to Cavaille-Coll's success, among them the magnificent instruments he designed and installed in St.-Denis, La Madeleine, St.-Vincent-de-Paul, and other churches in and around Paris. Of special interest is the documentation Douglass presents pertaining to the instrument for Franck at Ste.-Clotilde in Paris."--BOOK JACKET.
"In the final chapter, the author discounts the popular belief that Cavaille-Coll in his old age foresaw the future popularity of electro-pneumatic key action and regretted his inability to become involved in that development. In fact, Douglass says, the organ builder had little interest in the use of electricity as a supplementary source of energy for the organ."--BOOK JACKET.

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Note

Enl. ed. of: Cavaillé-Coll and the musicians. 1980.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-225) and index.

Language (note)

English and French.

Contents

I. The Industrial Aftermath of the Revolution -- II. Aristide Cavaille-Coll Goes to Paris -- III. The Organ for St.-Denis and the Barker Machine -- IV. Danjou's Challenge and the Disaster at St.-Eustache -- V. The Ideological Conflict in the Press -- VI. The Organ at La Madeleine -- VII. Lefebure-Wely and Lemmens -- VIII. The Organ at the Church of St.-Vincent-de-Paul -- IX. Cavaille-Coll's Favorite Organists in the Fifties -- X. Lefebure-Wely and Cesar Franck -- XI. Franck and the Organ at Ste.-Clotilde -- XII. Cavaille-Coll on Electricity -- App. A. Views on Diverse Matters (including list of principal organs) -- App. B. Selected Letters in English Concerning Cavaille-Coll's Travels -- App. C. Several Contracts in English.

ISBN

0300071140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98041897

OCLC

ocm39811944

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries