Prosper-Charles Simon
Prosper-Charles Simon (born December 27, 1788 in Bordeaux , † May 31, 1866 in Paris ) was a French organist .
Live and act
After training in Bordeaux, Simon came to Paris in 1825, where he drew attention to himself with his own compositions and organ playing in the pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires , the burial place of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his family. The gallery organ there , built by François-Henri Lesclop around 1739, was praised by the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll as one of the most beautiful in all of France , primarily because of its prospectus designed by Louis Régnier . Cavaillé-Coll renovated the organ in 1851. A year after his arrival, Simon was appointed titular organist of this church, a position he held until the end of his life. In 1827 he was appointed professor for organ playing and harmony .
From 1840 Simon worked as an organist at the Cathedral of Saint-Denis near Paris. The St. Denis basilica has been the burial place of almost all French kings since the end of the 10th century. The organ on the west gallery was Opus 1 by Cavaillé-Coll, built between 1834 and 1840; it was inaugurated on September 21, 1841 and is almost completely preserved in its original state to this day. In addition, Simon was responsible as an organ expert for the Parisian and all French cathedral organs.
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In his Nouveau Manuel complet de l'Organiste praticien from 1855, Georg Schmitt , the titular organist of St. Sulpice , attested “his older colleague had a particular fondness for the use of unusual registrations and effects, the ability to use all the timbres of an organ to their best advantage and extraordinary skills in pedaling. ”Schmitt dedicated his Offertoire pour la Pentecôte for organ, published in Le Musée de l'Organiste , Vol. I, No. 15 (Paris: Simon Richault, around 1857) to him.
literature
- Guido Johannes Joerg, epilogue to the new edition of Georg Schmitt's Offertoire pour la Pentecôte (Cologne: Verlag Dohr, 2013).
Web links
- Literature by and about Prosper-Charles Simon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guido Johannes Joerg in his epilogue to the new edition, 2013.
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Titular organist of the Saint-Denis basilica 1840–1866 |
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| SURNAME | Simon, Prosper-Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1866 |
| Place of death | Paris |