Alexandre Thierry (c. 1646 - 1699) was a

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organ builder, son of the organ builder

Pierre Thierry Pierre Thierry (1604–1665) was the founder of the Thierry dynasty of organ builders of Paris, France. Biography Thierry was born in Paris. He was the son of a Shoemaking, cobbler. At the age of seventeen he became a servant of the organis ...

, and the most distinguished of the second generation of this organ-building dynasty.

Biography

Alexandre Thierry was born in Paris around 1646, the youngest of three sons of the organ-builder Pierre Thierry and the most talented. He took charge of the family business on his father's death. Working with his brothers Charles and Jean, after the death of his father he completed the organ of the

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in 1667. This was considered his greatest work, an organ with 39

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and four manuals, the first organ with four manuals in Paris. From 1680 to 1687, thanks to the protection of the king's organists

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and Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, Alexandre Thierry maintained and improved the Royal positive organs at the

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and Saint-Cyr. He was responsible for the organ in the royal chapel of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Thanks to Lebègue he was given the job of building the organ for the Hôtel des Gobelins in 1684 with nineteen stops, three manuals and pedal. He also worked in Province, in Rouen and Lyon where he built the organ of the Cordeliers in the Church of St. Bonaventure (1689-1690). From 1691 to 1692 Alexandre Thierry and Hippolyte Ducastel jointly undertook major work in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris. Alexandre Thierry restored the organ in the Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, and then built the instrument of the Abbey of Saint-Sauveur d'Anchin in 1697, with 32 stops, 4 manuals and pedal. Alexandre Thierry died without an heir in 1699, and was succeeded by his nephew,

François Thierry François Thierry (1677-1749) was the last representative, in the third generation, of an important family of French people, French organ builders based in Paris. He was the grandson of Pierre Thierry and the nephew of Alexandre Thierry. Biograp ...

, son of Jean. His death interrupted his last work, the monumental instrument of the Basilica of Saint-Quentin. The buffet which still exists, begun in 1697 and completed in 1703 by his partner in this business, Robert Clicquot. The organ had 48 stops, four manuals and pedal.

Work

Work included: *

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with his brother Charles in 1670, a work for which he was famous *

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in 1673 *

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, destroyed in 1811 *

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, Paris in 1676 and 1684 * Hôtel des Invalides, Paris (1679-1682), a masterpiece of which the buffet by the royal carpenter Germain Pillon exists today. * Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, disappeared during the

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in 1680

References

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Norbert Dufourcq Norbert Stéphane Jean-Marie Dufourcq (21 September 1904 – 19 December 1990) was a French organist, music educator, musicologist and musicographer. Biography Norbert Dufourcq was born in 1904 in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in the Loiret department o ...

, ''Le Livre de l'Orgue Français'', tome III, la Facture, 2e partie, Picard, {{DEFAULTSORT:Thierry, Alexandre Businesspeople from Paris 1699 deaths French pipe organ builders Year of birth uncertain