Roger Boucher
Roger Boucher (born January 13, 1885 in Le Neubourg , Département Eure , † October 20, 1918 in Paris ) was a French organist and composer.
Boucher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris , where he received first prizes in piano accompaniment (1907), composition (1909) and organ (1910), and was an organ student of Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor .
He worked as organist at Saint-Eugène , Saint-Fernand-des Ternes , at the Basilica of Argenteuil and from 1910 at Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris. He took part in the First World War and died in 1918 in the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris as a result of war injuries. His cantabile for organ was published in 1911 in the collection Les Maitres Contemporains de l'Orgue . Louis Vierne dedicated the pastoral in the second volume of the Vingt-Quatre Pièces en Style libre to him .
literature
- Joseph Joubert: Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue . First volume - École Française. Senart, Paris 1911, p. 1 ( online ; PDF; 5.98 MB).
- Rollin Smith: Louis Vierne: organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral . Pendragon Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57647-004-0 , p. 188 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Roger Boucher death certificate , Memoire des Hommes, Ministère de la Defènse, accessed April 17, 2015
- ↑ a b Roger Boucher 1914-1918 , MémorialGenWeb, accessed February 25, 2016
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| SURNAME | Boucher, Roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Neubourg , Eure department |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1918 |
| Place of death | Paris |