René Saorgin

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René Saorgin (born October 21, 1928 in Cannes - † December 16, 2015 ) was a French organist .

Saorgin studied at the Nice Conservatory with Maurice Duruflé . From 1951 to 1954 he was organist at Saint-Pierre de Montmartre and since 1954 at Saint-Jean-Baptiste . In the same year he became an organ teacher at the Nice Conservatory. He was the teacher of Henri-Claude Fantapié , Scott Ross and Philippe Mabboux . From 1969 to 1971 he was the director of the Ajaccio Conservatory .

Saorgin devoted himself particularly to the maintenance of the Italian organ music and published about the historical organs in the Nice area. He recorded works by Girolamo Frescobaldi on organs in Bastia and Brescia . His recording of the complete works for organ by Dieterich Buxtehude , made between 1966 and 1973, is regarded as exemplary . In 1974 he played on the organ of Malaucène largely forgotten Toccaten of Georg Muffat one.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de René Saorgin
  2. ↑ American Guild of Organists (Ed.): Music. The AGO & RCCO Magazine. Vol. 8, 1974, p. 23.
  3. ^ Vita of Philippe Mabboux , accessed on January 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ René Saorgin: Les orgues historiques du Comté de Nice. Nice 1980; Les orgues historiques du pays niçois. Ed. du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 1988, ISBN 2-903310-52-1 .
  5. ↑ Review on codex flores , accessed January 13, 2015.
  6. ^ Discography by René Saorgin , accessed on January 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Saorgin, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French organist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannes
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2015