Alexandre Eugène Cellier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French organist and composer
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Place of Birth: Molières-sur-Cèze, Occitania, France
About Alexandre Eugène Cellier
- Alexandre Eugène Cellier (17 June 1883 in Molières-sur-Cèze – 4 March 1968 in Paris) was a French organist and composer. Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908.
- In 1908 he won the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris.
- Before that he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor.
- He was the organist Titulaire of the Temple de l'Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968.
- The organ he used was a 3-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32 stops, which was extended by Mutin (Cavaillé-Coll) in 1914. In Louis Vierne's biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a "cultivated musician" with skills in improvisation.
- He gave concerts abroad.He wrote a book about organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach Chorales.
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