Pierre Cochereau
Born: 9th July 1924, Saint Mande, France
Died: 6th March 1984, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.
Cochereau was titular organist of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1955 to his death in 1984 and was responsible for a controversial renovation of the cathedral's organ in the 1960s. He was greatly renowned as an improviser and organist in his lifetime and still is today.
After his death, the Conservatory of Nice was renamed in his honour.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Cochereau
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- Alleluia de Pâques (1)
- Boléro improvisé sur un thème de Charles Racquet, for organ and percussion (2)
- Improvisation sur Haec Dies (1)
- Improvisations (13) sur des versets de Vêpres: No. 13 (1)
- Les Offices du Dimanche - Entrée Grand Orgue (1)
- Scherzo sur Deux Noels (1)
- Scherzo Symphonique (4)
- Sortie Improvisée sur 'La Marseillaise' (1)
- Suite a la Francaise sur les themes populaires (1)
- Suite de Danses Improvisées (1)
- Suite Française Improvisée (1)
- Symphonie Improvisée (1)
- Thème et variations sur 'Ma jeunesse a une fin' (1)
- Toccata - Marche des Rois (1)
- Variations sur ‘Adeste Fideles' (3)
- Variations sur un vieux Noël (1)
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