Cavaillé-Coll Aristide
Contenu
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Nom
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Cavaillé-Coll Aristide
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Date de naissance
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3 February 1811
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Date de mort
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13 October 1899
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Lieu de naissance
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Montpellier
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Lieu de mort
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Paris
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Couverture temporelle
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19th century
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Biographie
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The best known member of a dynasty of organ builders active from the early 18th century. The family were highly itinerant, but eventually settled in Toulouse in 1827, only for the father Dominique Cavaillé-Coll and his two sons Vincent and Aristide, to leave for Paris in 1833. Here they established their organ-building business which would become one of the most notable manufactories of the 19th century. In Paris the family frequented both scientists and musicians, as well as well-placed bureacrats. Arisitide, who had enjoyed a scientific education displayed an exceptional talent for innovation and invention around his favoured instrument. His studies in acoustics led to some spin-off production of apparatus in this field. Tuning forks signed Cavaillé-Coll are known and organ equipment can be found in the collections of Teyler's Museum in Haarlem (1).
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Notes biographiques
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1 For Cavaillé-Coll in general see Henri de Rohan-Csermak, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Toulouse 1999. A Ministry of Culture web-site concerning him, http://www.culture.govt.fr/culture:cavaillé-coll/fr/aristide.html is less easy to use, and infinitely more difficult to read than that by Lois Metrope at http://www.musimem.com/cavaillé-coll.html. For the instruments in Teyler's Museum see Turner G, 124-6.
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Identifiant
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1347
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