CAVAILLÉ-COLL, ARISTIDE. - Organ builder, b. at Montpellier on 12 Feb. 1811, d. at Paris on 13 Oct. 1899. A descendant of a family already specialized in the manufacture of organs, he brought notable improvements to this instrument, and highly esteemed organs came out of his Paris workshop.He also wrote pamphlets on organ-building technique: Etudes expérimentales sur les tuyaux d'orgues (Paris 1849); De l'orgue et de son architecture (ibid. 1856); Projet d'orgue monumentale pour le basilique de St-Pierre à Rome (ibid. 1875).
BibliographyA. Pechard, Notices sur A. C. et les orgues électriques, Paris 1899.
BIBL.: A. Pechard, Notices sur A. C. et les orgues électriques, Paris 1899.
Mattei, Silverio. “Cavaillé-Coll, abistide.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1193. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cavaille-coll-abistide.
MLA
Mattei, Silverio. “Cavaillé-Coll, abistide.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1193. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cavaille-coll-abistide.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_cavaille_coll_abistide,
author = {Mattei, Silverio},
title = {Cavaillé-Coll, abistide},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1193},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cavaille-coll-abistide}
}
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