Project 366 - Listener Guide #323




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Summary: “Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)” A student of his father, then of the Belgian master Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Guilmant became an organist and teacher in Boulogne-sur-Mer, a city ion Northern France and his place of birth. In 1871 he was appointed to play the organ regularly at la Trinité church in Paris - the same church and organ Messiaen occupied for 60 years and a position Guilmant himself held for a mere… 30 years. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast149