Chamber organs
(Orgues de salon)
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Jeanne Demessieux
Organ Roethinger. This instrument was installed at
the house of Michel Faverais à la Ferté-sous-Jouarre.
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Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé
Organ Gonzalez, 1967 (III/30)
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Jean Galard
Organ (Baby-)Gonzalez, 196x (II/2)
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Comtesse de Béhague
Organ Charles Mutin (1906), moved to the Palais de
Béhague in the big concert hall (Salle Byzantin).
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Comte Christian de Bertier de Sauvigny
Organ Merklin (1904). It’s a chamber organ (III/30) of
the landgrave Christian Bertier de Sauvigny (1864-
1939). It was moved to Saint-Dominique in 1944-45.
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Joseph Bonnet
Organ Mutin (1912, transformed by Convers in
1924). Now in the chapelle Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de
Coetquidan (Morbihan). Thanks to Olivier Geoffroy
for this information. Composition.
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Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Organ Mutin inaugurated on February 4, 1905. After
her death, the organ is given to the musée de la Cité
de la musique in Paris. Composition.
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André Chauvin
Organ Benoit et Sarelot (1986), designed by André
Isoir. Originally, it was the personal organ of André
Chauvin, organist of the Prytanée militaire de La
Flèche. The organ was sold in 2014 to the Centre
Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts
and installed in the Chapelle Saint-Remi.
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Comtesse de Cossé-Brissac
Organ Mutin (1905). Now in Notre-Dame de
Sancerre (Cher). Composition.
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Mme Dujarric
In 1988, this organ of the mansion of Ms Dujarric in
Boulogne-Billancourt, was given to the parish of
Sainte-Odile: due to financial restrictions, the
pipework is not yet installed.
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Marcel Dupré
An important part of the organ of Saint-Gabriel (built
by Chrétien et Laurent Steinmetz in 1982) comes
from a Cavaillé-Coll chamber organ which is said to
belonged to Marcel Dupré.
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Baron d'Erlanger
Organ Cavaillé-Coll, 1865 (opus 250-229). It was
given to the city oif Paris in 1927 by the son of the
baron, and then installed in the chapel of the
Sorbonne by Convers-Cavaillé-Coll and then installed
at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas.
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Eugène Gigout
A small organ Cavaillé-Coll (1987) in the mansion of
Gigout at 63 bis rue Jouffroy (XVIIe Arr ). The organ
was equipped with a manual blower that his
students operated themselves during lessons.
Gigout sold his organ in 1900 to the Ecole des
Francs-Bourgeois.
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Charles Gounod
Organ Cavaillé-Coll, 1879, II/16 (12). This organ
remained until 1937 in the master's salon (located at
20 Place Malesherbes in Paris) until his daughter,
the Baroness de Lassus, gave it to the Institut des
Jeunes Aveugles in Bordeaux at the instigation of
André Marchal. It was transferred from Bordeaux to
Ambarès-la-Grave (Gironde) to the Institute for the
Deaf and Blind (IRSA) in his original state. It has been
classified as a historical monument since 2009. It is
now installed and restored in the church of La Sauve
Majeure (Gironde).
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Jean Huré
OrganCavaillé-Mutin (1915-1920). Now in Saint
Christophe de Javel. In 1970, it was reconstructed by
Schwenkedel.
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Georges Jacob (1877-1950)
Organ Mutin (1900-1905). Now in Sainte-Marie-
Madeleine de Domont. Composition.
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Léonce de St Martin
Organ Gaston Gutschenritter (1922), moved to Notre
Dame de l’Assomption de Passy in 1959.
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Baron Albert de l'Espée
See: Sacré-Coeur and Saint-Antoine-de-quinze-vingts
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Comtesse Anna de Noailles
Organ Cavaillé-Coll (1898).
The Countess sold it in 1905 to the Aviné family of
Dreux (Eure-et-Loir) to reward the grandson of the
family: Émile (pupil of Alexandre Guilmant and Louis
Vierne) with his first organ prize (1904). He ceded
the instrument to the parish of Saint-Joseph des
Épinettes at the end of 1910. According to the
national inventory of organs, this organ is an old
salon organ built by Cavaillé-Coll in 1880 for Samuel
Rousseau, as a gift following the obtaining of his
Organ Prize at the Paris Conservatory in the class of
Alexandre Guilmant.
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Madame Sulzbach
Organ Mutin (1910). Now installed as choir organ in
Heilig Hartkerk Hilversum (Pays-Bas).
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Charles Tournemire
Adrien/Pierre Maciet owns the personal organ of the
composer Charles Tournemire that his grandfather
had bought in La Roche sur Yon upon the
composer's death.
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Pauline Viardot
In 1851, Cavaillé-Coll built for the music salon of the
singer Pauline Viardot an organ of 14 stops spread
over 2 keyboards and a pedal.
Stoplist (at the origin): 1st keyboard: Flûte
harmonique 8, Flûte octaviante 4, Octavin 2, Dessus
Bourdon 16, Basse Trompette 8, Dessus Trompette
8, Basse Basson 8, Dessus Hautbois 2nd Keyboard:
Principal 8, Bourdon 8, Viole de gambe 8, Voix
céleste 8, Gambe 4, Doublette 2. Pedal : Bourdon 16,
Flûte 8.
It is the instrument around which the cultural elite
gathers, Thursday evenings, at the show of Viardot:
Flaubert, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Delacroix, Doré,
Berlioz, Liszt and Saint-Saëns are there. The console,
richly decorated, is separated from the case and is
arranged so that the performer is facing his audience.
The stops of the orchestral color Récit accompany the
solo stops keyboard of the great organ. This is the first
Cavaillé-Coll equipped with a German pedalboard of 30
keys with two pedal games independent Bourdon 16
and Flute 8. Pauline Viardot accompanies when she
sings a repertoire borrowed from the opera and she
plays them She invites famous organists such as
Alexandre Guilmant and those of the rising generation,
like Eugène Gigout introduced by Camille Saint-Saëns.
(from the Bulletin of the Friends of the Quebec
Organ No. 18).
This organ was presented by Cavaillé-Coll at the
Universal Exhibition of 1855, it followed the Viardot
couple to Germany in Baden-Baden in 1863, then it
was moved to their new property in Bougival in
1871. Pauline Viardot sold her organ to the parish of
Notre-Dame de Melun (Seine-et-Marne) at the end
of 1885. Since then, several more or less adequate
interventions took place: in 1896 by Charles Mutin,
in 1912 by the House Duputel, in 1955 by Paul-Marie
Koenig, and in 1966 by Jean Jonet.
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Louis Vierne
Orgue-de-Salon de Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll, 1899.
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Charles-Marie Widor
In 1892, Charles-Marie Widor commissioned
Cavaillé-Coll fils to create a 10-stop salon organ
whose case was inspired by the 1747 organ known
as the "du Dauphin" organ, kept at the Palace of
Versailles. After moving several times over the years,
the organ was finally installed in 1986 at Selongey
(Bourgogne).
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Owner unknown
Now at the chapelle de Franklin du Collège et lycée
Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague. The date and provenance
of the organ are unknown, but it is possible that it
was an old chamber organ (perhaps built by Aeolian
Skinner). It was purchased by the college in 1964.