Félix Danjou
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Jean-Louis-Félix Danjou (21 June 1812 – 4 March 1866) was a French organist, composer-arranger, and organist. He is best remembered for having discovered the Antiphonary of St. Benigne in 1847. and as founder of the ''Revue de la musique religieuse''.


Career

Danjou was organist at Church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux 1831–34, Saint-Eustache from 1834–1844,William A. Little, ''Mendelssohn and the Organ'' (2010): "... by one of the country's leading activists for the reform and improvement of church music, Jean-Louis-Félix Danjou (1812–1866). Danjou was organist at St. Eustache (1834–1844) and then at Notre Dame Cathedral (1841–1847) in Paris," at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1840 to 1847. He was also a partner with André-Marie Daublaine and :fr:Louis Callinet, of the :fr:Callinet family, in the :fr:Daublaine-Callinet organ company.


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1812 births 1866 deaths 19th-century French composers 19th-century French male musicians Conservatoire de Paris alumni French classical organists French male organists Musicians from Paris Male classical organists 19th-century organists {{France-composer-stub