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Notre Dame
de Lorette 1 - 2
18 bis, rue de Chateaudun, 75009 Paris
Orgue de tribune
1838 - Cavaillé-Coll
1881 - Stolz
1902 - Mutin
1978 - Haerpfer-Erman
2020 - Fossaert
Photos GO: Jeroen de Haan
Photo of the old console: Kurt Lueders
Photo of the new console: Jean Guilcher
This organ was the first Cavaillé-Coll organ built in Paris and
until 1975 well preserved. In 1975-1978, Haerpfer-Erman
completed a ‘restoration’ which became a complete disaster
and a black page in the history of the French organ heritage.
During this ‘restoration’, it was decided that 54 notes was not
enough, so there was a re-make of the chests to have 56
notes. That made it necessary to replace the whole mechanics.
And that made it necessary to replace the old console. To
complete the disaster, the harmonisation was changed into a
neo-baroque direction and the number of stops was extended
from 41 to 48. Fortunately, the old console was not destroyed,
but left behind somewhere on the organ loft and 31 stops of
Cavaillé-Coll were preserved (albeit modified).
In 2020, Yves Fossaert carried out extensive works, including a
reconstruction of the original wind supply and parts of the
mechanics.
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La construction de l’église a commencé en
1823 sous le règne de Louis XVIII et s’est
achevée en 1836 sous le règne de Louis-
Philippe, avec Louis-Hippolyte Lebas comme
architecte. Georges Bizet reçoit son baptême à
l’église le 16 mars 1840, tandis que le peintre
Claude Monet est baptisé le 20 mai 1841. César
Franck s’y est marié le 22 février 1848.
Organiste titulaire
Marie-Ange Laurent
Concerts
Regularly
Masses with ogan
Saturday 6:30 PM
Sunday 9:30 and 11:00 AM, 6:30 PM
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