Paul Allix

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Paul Allix (* 1888 in Paris ; † 1974 ) was a French organist and composer .

Life

education

Paul Allix was born in Paris in 1888 and was blind from birth. He became a student at the National Institute for the Young Blind (Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles) at a young age. In a comprehensive and systematic musical education, the special affinity to music that blind people can develop was promoted there. There he studied music with Adolphe Marty (organ and composition) and Maurice Blazy (piano).

Act

In 1909 he took the position as organist of the Trinity Basilica of Cherbourg (Basilique Sainte-Trinité de Cherbourg), where he opened a successful series of concerts, to which he also invited the national greats among French organists as lecturers.

Paul Allix composed numerous pieces for piano, religious choral music and some organ works. The motet Cor Jesu (Heart of Jesus) and an organ sonata , which uses the Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes, are known.

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  • Abbé Joubert: Les Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue
personal data
SURNAME Allix, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH 1974