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Jean Guillou
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French composer, organist, pianist (1930–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Danse de la Fee Dragee]
- Tableaux d'une Exposition
- Die Orgel
- L'orgue souvenir et avenir
- Musical Offering
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Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris.…
Known for
- Champs-Elysées — Self1982
- Apostrophes — Self1975
- À bout portant — Self1968
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1930-04-18
- Active to
- 2019-01-26
Discography
- Jean Guillou à l'orgue de la Matthias-Kirche de Berlin1967
- 2 concertos pour orgue1967
- Visions cosmiques : Improvisations dédiées à l’équipage d’Apollo 81969
- Jean Guillou interprète sa Symphonie initiatique pour 3 orgues1971
- L'Orgue du 20ᵉ siècle1971
- Symphony no. 3 "Organ Symphony"1985
- Great European Organs, No. 9: Arthur Wills Plays the Organ of Ely Cathedral1988
- Organ Encores1988
- The Goldberg Variations (BWV 988)1988
- Improvisations for Christmas1989
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- 3,527
- Total plays
- 32,056
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Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Guillou was born in Angers. Following his first studies in piano and organ, he became organist at the church St. Serge in Angers at the age of 12. He studied then at the Paris Conservatoire under Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen. In 1955, he accepted a position as professor of organ and composition at the Institute of Sacred Music in Lisbon. <a href="https://ww
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Angers
- Place of death
- 18th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Movement
- classical music
- Instrument
- pipe organ
- Official website
- www.jean-guillou.org
- Image
- Jean Guillou 7908.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1930-04-18
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- name in native language
- Jean Guillou
- date of death
- 2019-01-26
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- birth name
- Jean Victor Arthur Guillou
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