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Guillou in 2014 | |
Born | Jean Victor Arthur Guillou 18 April 1930 Angers, France |
Died | 26 January 2019 Paris, France | (aged 88)
Education | Paris Conservatoire |
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Website | www |
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Principle Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris.