Dallery (family)

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Dallery is the name of a French family of organ builders in the 18th and 19th centuries. It includes:

  • Charles Dallery (born January 23, 1702 in Buire-le-Sec (Pas-de-Calais), † January 10, 1779 in Amiens)
  • Pierre-François Dallery (* 1764 in Paris; † 1833 there), his son
  • Louis-Paul Dallery (born February 24, 1797 in Paris, † after 1843), his son

Pierre Dallery (1735-1812)

Life

Pierre Dallery was the nephew and pupil of Charles Dallerys, the founder of the organ building dynasty of the Dallerys. From 1764 to 1778 he worked for François-Henri Clicquot , after which he worked independently until 1807. Dallery's cousin Thomas-Charles Dallery was known as an organ builder and inventor. His son Pierre-François Dallery continued his father's company until 1825, and his grandson Louis-Paul Dallery was also an organ builder.

Works

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
Paris St. Nicolas des Champs With Clicquot.
Paris Saint-Merry With Clicquot
Paris Sainte-Chapelle du Paris With Clicquot
1781-1787 Mayenne Ste-Suzanne
1787-1788 Paris St.-Etienne des Grés
1791 Arras La Madelaine
1789 Missionaires de St. Lazare

During the 1790s he was involved in the implementation of several organs related to the French Revolution. In 1795 he took part in an inventory of the Paris organs commissioned by the Commission temporaire des arts by Claude-Pierre Molard .

literature

  • Douglas Earl Bush, Richard Kassel: The Organ. P. 136 ( Google books )

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