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Alfred Lefébure-Wély
French organist and composer
Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (13 November 1817 – 31 December 1869) was a French organist and composer.
He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs.
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His playing was virtuosic, and as a performer, he was rated above eminent contemporaries including César Franck. His compositions, less substantial than those of Franck and others, have not held such a prominent place in the repertory.
Biography
Lefébure-Wély was born in Paris, son of an organist.[1] He studied with his father, Isaac-François-Antoine Lefebvre (1756–1831), who had changed his name to Antoine Lefébure-Wely after being appointed organist of the fashionable church of Saint-Roch in the 1st arrondissement.[2] The boy was musically precocious.
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