Jean Fellot
Jean Fellot (born June 8, 1905 in Saint-Marcellin , Isère , † March 2, 1967 in Paris ) was a French organist and music teacher.
Fellot began his training at the Conservatory of Lyon, where he received first prize in the organ in 1928, and then studied at the Schola Cantorum with Maurice Sergeant and Louis Vierne . He taught organ at the Ecole César-Franck and piano at the Collège Stanislas and worked as organist and conductor at the Paris churches of St-Louis-en-l'Ile , St-Augustin and Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire de Plaisance . Fellot also dealt with organ building. He wrote the book Plein-Jeu about it and built an organ himself between 1950 and 1955. In 1962 he published L'Orgue classique français , a book in which he dealt critically with the contemporary practice of restoring historical organs. The work was published in a new edition in 1993. Fellot was married to the organist Geneviève Halluitte . His cousin was the violinist and musicologist Henri Fellot .
source
- Information on the private website Musica et Memoria (French)
- Literature by and about Jean Fellot in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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| SURNAME | Fellot, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French organist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Marcellin , Isère |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1967 |
| Place of death | Paris |