How to Pronounce Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
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Feb 04, 1811 Montpellier, Occitania, France Died on 13 Oct 1899 (aged 88)
French organ builder
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About Aristide Cavaillé Coll
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (French: [a?istid kavaje k?l]; 4 February 1811 – 13 October 1899) was a French organ builder.
- He has the reputation of being the most distinguished organ builder of the 19th century.
- He pioneered innovations in the art and science of organ building that permeated throughout the profession and influenced the course of organ building and organ composing through the early 20th century.
- The organ reform movement sought to return organ building to a more Baroque style; but since the 1980s, Cavaillé-Coll's designs have come back into fashion.
- After Cavaillé-Coll's death, Charles Mutin maintained the business into the 20th century.
- Cavaillé-Coll was the author of many scientific journal articles and books on the organ in which he published the results of his researches and experiments.
- He was the inventor of several organ stops such as the flûte harmonique.
- His most famous organs in Paris are in Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Basilique Sainte-Clotilde and Église de la Madeleine.
