A schedule for an organ tour

during the weekend

Saturday

5.00 PM Sainte-Clotilde Audition (2nd Saturday of the month) 6.30 PM Sainte-Clotilde (1859, III/71), Mass 7.00 PM Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1973, IV/56), Mass

Sunday

10 - 12 AM Twelve options - see below 10.00 AM or 4.00 PM Saint-Sulpice Audition (organ concert) 3.55 PM Sacré-Coeur Vespers 4.00 AM Sainte-Madeleine Audition (two times each month) 5.00 PM Notre-Dame-de-Paris Audition (start december 2024) Saint-Eustache Audition 6.40 PM St. Etienne-du-Mont Evening Mass 9.55 PM Sacré-Coeur Evening Mass OPTIONS SUNDAY BETWEEN 10-12 AM, attending the prelude of the 11 AM mass. If you prefer the symphonic organs: • Saint-Sulpice • Sainte-Clotilde • Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts • Sainte-Madeleine • Notre-Dame d’Auteuil (silent until 2025) • Saint-Etienne-du-Mont • Sainte-Trinité • Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix • Saint-Bernard-de-la-Chapelle If you prefer French baroque organs: • Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs (silent) • Saint-Roch • Saint-Gervais If you prefer German baroque organs: • Saint-Louis-en-l’ile Other organs you should visit (which don’t fit into any schedule): • Saint-Denis, cathédrale • Aubervilliers, Notre-Dame-des-Vertus • Versailles, Cathédrale St. Louis (silent due to restoration of the church) Consult the pdf-file for more information/details

How to hear as much

organs as possible

during a weekend?

Organ concerts (‘audition d’orgue’) are scarse in Paris. To hear the organs, you often have to attend the masses. The organ is mostly used during the masses on Saturday-evening and Sunday-morning. The organist plays the prelude (often very short), the offertoire (2-3 minutes) the communion (6-10 minutes) and the sortie (5 minutes). Many organs are tuned before Christmas and before Easter. Many organs need maintenance-works rather urgently, but the city of Paris has only very limited resources for its organs…

Agenda of organ

concerts in Paris