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Félix Alexandre Guilmant
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| Born Boulogne-sur-Mer, 12 March 1837; died Meudon, 29 March 1911, French organist, composer and editor. Largely self-taught, he became well known throughout Europe and North America as a recitalist, also holding the post of organist at the Trinité, Paris, and teaching at the Schola Cantorum and the Conservatoire. The quality and range of the new Cavaillé-Coll organs that he played enabled him, with Widor, to establish the French "organ symphony".Besides composing much organ and sacred vocal music, he made numerous editions of 16th-to 18th-century organ works.
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