Francis Chapelet (born 3 March 1934 in

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) the son of painter

Roger Chapelet Albert Roger Édouard Chapelet (25 September 1903 – 30 June 1995) was a French maritime painter, from Versailles. Originally from the Périgord province, he discovered his maritime passion boarding the ''Rollo'' in 1927, where his brother was ...

, is a French classical

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Career

Francis Chapelet started studying the organ at the école César Franck, under the direction of

Édouard Souberbielle Jacques Auguste Édouard Souberbielle (17 June 1899 – 29 January 1986) was a 20th-century French organist, Kapellmeister and music educator. Biography Souberbielle first studied with his mother, a former pupil of Émile Delaborde, son of Char ...

. He later studied at the

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where he won the first prizes in

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(with

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as professor), and

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and improvisation (with

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) in 1961. In 1964, he was named co-holder of the organ of the

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in Paris, a position he held for twenty years, and of which he remains an honorary member. He was a member of the two organ commissions (classified, unclassified) of the Ministry of Culture. He is also honorary organist of

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in Rome. He created the organ class of the

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of which he was in charge until 1996. Francis Chapelet is known to be one of the specialists of Spanish organ and has directed the International Academy of Iberian Organ of Castile. He is also a corresponding member of the

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in Madrid. Honours: Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite, Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Discography

* Series "Orgues Historiques": Covarrubias, ref HMO n°7 Improvisations and Correa de Arauxo, Cabanilles... * Series "Orgues Historiques": Salamanque, ref n°10 Improvisations * Series "Orgues Historiques": Frederiksborg - Sweelink and improvisations, ref HM n°16 * Series "Orgues Historiques": Tolède - Improvisations, ref HM 4519.1.24 * Series "Orgues Historiques": Ciudad Rodrigo - Cabezon, Anonymes, Correa de Arauxo, Narvaez, T.L.de Santa Maria..., ref HM n°14 * Series "Orgues Historiques": Trujillo - Improvisations, ref HM 4511 n° 18 * Series "Orgues Historiques": Lisbonne - Improvisations, ref HM 4517 n° 1.22 * Series "Orgues Historiques": Roquemaure - Suite de danses, Attaingnant, Buxtehude, L. Couperin, Swellinck, ref HM4520 * Orgue Renaissance de Roquemaure - Swellink, Scheidt, Buxtehude, L. Couperin, M. Lanes, ref HM 932 * Aux orgues d'Espagne de Trujillo, Salamanque, Covarrubias and Ciudad Rodrigo - Antonio de Cabezon, ref HM Opus 15 * Organs of Lisbonne - Araujo, Cabanilles, Correa de Arauxo ... ref: HM 704 * Orgues des Baléares - Swellinck, Scheidt, Boehm, Fischer, Pachelbel, Scheidemann, ref HM 948 * Series "Grands Organistes" Revival of the Lisbon pieces, Salamanque, Trujillo, Covarrubias and Fredericksborg, ref HM 34757 * Coffret: Orgues d'Espagne - Aux orgues de Salamanque, Trujillo, Tolède, Covarrubias, Palma de Majorque, ref HM765 * Series "Orgues Historiques" n°9 - Organ of Carpentras (P. Quoirin 1974) Cabanilles, P.Bruna, Scheidt, J.S.Bach. * CD - Orgues Historiques d'Europe - Baléares, Trujillo, Covarrubias - 2CDs ref: HMA 1901226 and HMA 1901225. * L'orgue contemporain à Notre Dame de Paris - ETNA 71 (in collaboration with Haroun Tazieff) ref: FY Solstice SOCD 192 * El Organo Castellano - Abarca de Campos et Frechilla - Anonymous, Soto de Langa, Cabezon, M.Lopez, Cabanilles... ref: Valois V4653 * Les chemins de l'orgue en Aquitaine - Organs of Montpon-Ménestérol and Vanxains, Échourgnac, Chantérac. *

Church of the Holy Cross, Bordeaux The Church of the Holy Cross (french: Église Sainte-Croix) is a Roman Catholic church located in Bordeaux, southern France. It was formerly the church of a Benedictine abbey founded in the 7th century, and was built in the late 11th-early 12th ce ...

- Organ Dom Bedos - F. Couperin, Grigny, Guilain, Dandrieu and improvisation * Organ of Grignan - live, Dandrieu, Correa de Arauxo, Swellinck, J.S.Bach and improvisations. * Music for two organs in

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- (with Uriel Valadeau) L. Couperin, Soto de Langa, Cabezon, Pasquini ...

Bibliography

* Chapelet, Francis, ''L'Œuvre pour orgue'' (volume 1:
Pièces et improvisations dans l'esthétique classique
', volume 2:

'), éditions Delatour, 2013. * Chapelet, Francis, ''Livre d'improvisation et d'accompagnement'', éditions Les presses de la Double, 2002, 68 pages. * Chapelet, Francis, ''Les Orgues de Montpon-Ménestérol'', Les Presses de la Double. * Chapelet, Francis, ''Chroniques en Chamade'', SIC Éditions in Brussel. * Chapelet, Francis, ''L'orgue Espagnol'',''L'orgue Espagnol''
/ref> Les Presses de la Double (a collection of Iberian music scores from the 16th to 18th century).

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