Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel (* 1831 ; † October 1889 ) was a French organist , composer and music teacher .
Lebel studied from 1841 to 1849 at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (INJA) from which he graduated with honors in the subjects of organ, violin and piano. He then went to the Conservatoire de Paris , where he was a student of François Benoist and Jacques Fromental Halévy .
He worked as a professor for organ and composition and from 1870 as orchestra leader at INJA. His most famous students were Adolphe Marty , Albert Mahaut and Louis Vierne .
From 1853 Lebel was organist at the Paris parish church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont . He composed organ and orchestral works and several cantatas.
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- Musica et Memoria - L'Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles
- Rollin Smith, "Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral," Pendragon Press, 1999, ISBN 9781576470046 , p. 24
- Orpha Ochse: "Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium" , new edition Indiana University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780253214232 , p. 117
- James E. Frazier, "Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music" , University Rochester Press, 2007, ISBN 9781580462273 , pp. 29-30
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| SURNAME | Lebel, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French organist, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1831 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1889 |