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Swiderski

Jean-Pierre Korwin-Swiderski (1940-2023) showed himself to be passionate about organs and railways at a very early age, and all these mechanisms that exacerbated the curiosity of real technicians. At the tribune of Notre- Dame d'Auteuil, he regularly meets organist and composer Henri Veyssere. At the one at Saint- Vincent-de-Paul, it was Robert Camus, a passionate organ builder, who brought him to Kurt Swenkedel in Strasbourg in 1965. He took, as a voicer, an interest in the revival of the organ of the cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Saint-Flour, the reconstruction of the organ of Sainte-Marie de Saint-Bertrand in Comminges and the organ of the Abbey of Sainte- Scholastique in Dourgne (Tarn). In 1994 he was subcontracted to contract the harmony for the restoration of the great Saint-Roch organs. He maintained, as an independent craftsman, several Parisian organs and he took over the clientele of the organ builder Jacques Barbéris. He gradually ceased operations between 2010 and 2015. He was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres on March 12, 2019.
Jean-Pierre Swiderski
Organs of Paris

Swiderski

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Jean-Pierre Korwin-Swiderski (1940-2023) showed himself to be passionate about organs and railways at a very early age, and all these mechanisms that exacerbated the curiosity of real technicians. At the tribune of Notre-Dame d'Auteuil, he regularly meets organist and composer Henri Veyssere. At the one at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, it was Robert Camus, a passionate organ builder, who brought him to Kurt Swenkedel in Strasbourg in 1965. He took, as a voicer, an interest in the revival of the organ of the cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Saint-Flour, the reconstruction of the organ of Sainte-Marie de Saint-Bertrand in Comminges and the organ of the Abbey of Sainte-Scholastique in Dourgne (Tarn). In 1994 he was subcontracted to contract the harmony for the restoration of the great Saint-Roch organs. He maintained, as an independent craftsman, several Parisian organs and he took over the clientele of the organ builder Jacques Barbéris. He gradually ceased operations between 2010 and 2015. He was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres on March 12, 2019.