Albert Peschard

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Albert Peschard

Charles Louis Albert Peschard ( 1836 - December 19, 1902 (or December 23, 1903?) In Caen , France ) was a French lawyer , organist and inventor. He developed the technical requirements for the first electric music actions in organs .

Life

Organ in St-Augustin in Paris, 1868

Albert Perschard trained as a lawyer and received his doctorate in law. In 1857 he became organist at the Church of St-Étienne de Caen . Around 1860 he developed the technical requirements for electric action in organs. He showed his invention to the English organ builder Charles Barker , who was working in Paris at the time , and patented it in 1862 and 1863. In 1865, Barker built the first organ with an electric action mechanism in the collegiate church of St-Laurent in Salon-de-Provence , together with Charles Verschneider . In 1868 Barker and Peschard built an organ with electropneumatic transmissions in the church of St-Augustin in Paris.

Their collaboration ended in 1870 when Barker left for England, and Peschard remained organist in Caen until 1875. He then apparently traveled to New Zealand for some time and published some texts on his research from 1890 onwards. In 1897/99 the electropneumatic transmissions in the organ in St-Augustin in Paris were replaced by mechanical ones.

Albert Peschard probably died on December 19, 1902 (alternatively on December 23, 1903?). He received the Order of Merit of the Netherlands, the medal of the Association française pour l'avancement des sciences, as well as gold medals at the exhibitions in Lyon and Bordeaux.

Publications (selection)

Albert Peschard wrote several papers on electrical techniques in organs and other topics

  • Des privilèges sur les meubles: thèse soutenue le 16 février 1861
  • Application de l'électricité aux grandes orgues , 1864, 1865
  • 58 phot. de Nouvelle-Zélande, fossiles et objets préhistoriques [58 photographs of fossil and prehistoric objects in New Zealand] , 1890
  • Les premières applications de l'électricité aux grandes orgues , 1890
  • L'orgue électrique n'est pas d'origine américaine , 1892
  • Études sur l'orgue électrique: perfectionnements au système électro-pneumatique , 1896
  • Notice biographique on A. Cavaillé-Coll et les orgues électriques , 1899
  • Appareil de demonstration pour l'étude de l'Application de l'electricité aux orgues , 1900

literature

  • George Laing Miller: The Recent Revolution in Organ Building. Charles Francis Press, 1913. p. 42. ( online ) (end of Chapter IV)
  • Apparition et développement des applications de l'électricité dans l'orgue aux XIXe siècle. L'Orgue. No. 282. 2008 (II) passim

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organ in St-Augustin Edition Lade (German), with incorrect sole builder mention of Peschard.
  2. ↑ History of Caen after 1900 Édition de Caen (French)
  3. ↑ George Laing Miller: The Recent History of Organ Building 1913. p. 42. Probably in error.
personal data
SURNAME Peschard, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peschard, Charles Louis Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, organist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH 1836
DATE OF DEATH unsure: 19. December 1902
Place of death Caen , France