François-Henri Clicquot

François-Henri Clicquot

François-Henri Clicquot (* 1732 in Paris ; † May 24, 1790 there ) was a French organ builder .

Life

Together with his grandfather Robert Clicquot , his father Louis-Alexandre Clicquot and his uncle Jean-Baptiste Cliquot, Cliquot forms an organ builder dynasty which - alongside the organ builder family Thierry ( Alexandre and François Thierry ) - has made great contributions to the perfection of the classical French organ. Like his relatives, he carried the title of royal organ builder.

He worked with his father until 1751 and was responsible for completing the organ at Saint-Roch . After his death in 1760 he took over the management of the company, which he ran together with his brother-in-law Adrien Lépine until 1770 . Pierre Dallery has been part of his staff since 1764 . From his school u. a. the organ builders Simon Miocque and Christian Nyssen .

Clicquot's new buildings in Paris included the organs of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois (Paris) , Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin and Saint-Sulpice (which was later restored by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll ), as well as the organs of the abbeys of Souvigny and Poitiers .

He also restored the organs of Saint-Gervais in Paris , on which several generations of the Couperin family had worked as organists, the organs of St-Étienne-du-Mont , Saint-Victor , St-Nicolas-des-Champs and St- Nicolas-du-Chardonnet and the organs of Notre-Dame de Paris and Nantes Cathedral .

Cliquot corresponded with the German organ builder Karl Joseph Riepp and wrote the organ building school Théorie, Pratique de la facture de l'orgue . The company was continued by his son Claude François Clicquot (1762-1802).

Works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1762	Versailles	Cathédrale Saint-Louis		III / P
1769-1771	Paris	Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin		IV / P
1772-1777	Paris	St-Nicolas-des-Champs		V / P	42	1930 extension conversion
1782	Souvigny	Monastery church		III / P	28
1780-1784	Nantes	Nantes Cathedral		V / P	49	Including older parts of the previous organ, expanded and rebuilt several times, burned on July 18, 2020 → Main article : Nantes cathedral organs
1788	Paris	St-Leu-St-Gilles		II / P	24
1786-1791	Paris	St-Sulpice		V / P	64	1855–1862 extension conversion by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll to V / P / 100; about 50 registers obtained from Clicquot → Main article : Organs of St-Sulpice de Paris
1791	Paris	St-Germain-l'Auxerrois		III / P	32	in the organ housing from 1751; received several times rebuilt
1791	Poitiers	Poitiers Cathedral		IV / P	45	→ organ

Media

• YouTube
• Jean-Luc Perrot plays Romance l'Art du facteur d'orgues , Dom Bedos de Celles organ François-Henri Clicquot , Souvigny

literature

• Roland Galther: Cliquot (Clicquot) . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 .
• Salomon Kümmerle: Clicquot, François Henri . In: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music . tape 1 . Gütersloh 1888, p. 284 f .
• Hans Steinhaus and Pierre Hardouin: Clicquot, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part, band 4 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, 1270 f.
• Jean-Alber Villard: L'oeuvre de François-Henri Clicquot, Facteur d'Orgues du Roy (1732-1790) . In: Études near the Grand-Orgue F.-H. Clicquot de la Cathédrale de Poitiers . Imprimerie Barnéoud, Laval 1973.

Web links

Commons : François-Henri Clicquot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about François-Henri Clicquot in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the François-Henri Clicquot Association