Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (born in Montpellier, 4 February 1811; died in Paris, 13 October 1899) was a French organ-builder. He invented many new mechanical devices and his organs changed the way that composers could write for the instrument. César Franck, Alexandre Guilmant, and Charles-Marie Widor, in particular, were strongly influenced by the new type of organ that he was building.
Cavaillé-Coll grouped the stops of the organ into different families, so that the result was similar to the families of instruments in an orchestra. He made the lowest of the manuals (keyboards) the most important one. It was called the “Great” (French: “Grande Orgue”). The other manuals - there were usually two others, but sometimes three - could be “coupled” to the Great. He made changes to the English swell box, improved its operation, and divided the windchests on which the pipes were resting. This made it possible to have louder reed stops because of the higher wind pressure.
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Media
Cavaillé-Coll's grave in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Organ of the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory
Rennes Cathedral, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. Cavaillé-Coll organ dating from 1874, totally rebuilt by Haerpfer-Erman in 1970. Instrument with 4 manual keyboards, 67 registers and 4953 pipes.
Notre-Dame-du-Bourg Rabastens
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