Jean-Luc Perrot (born 23 May 1959 in Moulins, Allier, in Central

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) is a French

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, composer and

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Biography

Jean-Luc Perrot is agrégé of musicology, Doctor of literature and arts (musicology), lecturer at the École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (former IUFM) of Saint-Étienne after being a lecturer at the

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of this same town, where he previously taught

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, accompaniment and free value ''Arts Lyriques''. A pupil of Roland Meillier in piano at the , he studied the pipe organ (an instrument he discovered at the age of 13 in 1972), under the leadership of Michel Chapuis, Jean Boyer, as part of Summer Academies. The holder of the historical organ Callinet (1837) of Notre-Dame in Saint-Étienne, his thesis on ''L'orgue en France de 1789 à 1860'' led him to discover many forgotten sheet music. In January 2013, he was appointed to replace Henri Delorme on the François-Henri Clicquot organ in

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, alongside Madeleine Cordez and Pierre Dubois. He is the author of several articles, analyzes, CD booklets, and historical notices. He also plays the

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, the harpsichord and the carillon. His recordings ''L'Héritage de l'orgue classique'', ''Suites et versets'' (on the organ of

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), ''Beauvarlet-Charpentier à Souvigny'', ''Maîtres français du XVIIe à Pommiers en Forez'' (as harpsichordist), four-handed works on the large organ of the Cathedral of Rodez in the company of Georges Lartigau and recently a CD devoted to the unpublished works of

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at La Chaise-Dieu showed his attachment to rare music scores. His last recording on the organ of Villerupt is devoted to a certain number of forgotten Romantic composers (Petrali, Smart, Brosig, La Tombelle, Becker). His concerts have taken him all over France but also in Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain and Canada. He has recently performed several improvisational experiments, notably in long sessions of accompanying

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. Alongside his teaching activities (he has deepened pedagogy at the University Institute of Teacher Training and gives many courses and

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es), he founded the Baroque

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''La Clémence d'Urfé''. Jean-Luc Perrot is also a composer: He has written several pages for organ alone and organ with 4 hands, works for choir, carillon, or various formations of chamber music. His first ''Suite à quatre mains pour l'orgue dans le style français'', including in particular a third in size entitled ''Le tombeau de

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'' was published by ''La Sinfonie d'Orphée''.La Sinfonie d'Orphée
/ref> He also gives numerous lectures both in France and abroad, for associations, for the CNRS, or at international conferences (Brussels, Paris, Poland). As a musicologist, his articles were published in the ''Dictionnaire des musiciens du XIXe siècle'', the encyclopedy ''

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'', and in collaboration with the (

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) He collaborated in the publication of facsimile works in the series ''Patrimoine et Mémoire de l'orgue'', at éditions Musicreprints (works by Benaut, Miné, Daussoigne-Méhul,

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). He is secretary of the Cavaillé-Coll Association. Jean-Luc Perrot is chevalier in the

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References

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* Échos de Souvigny ''11 centenaire de la Maison de Bourbon'', Jean-Luc Perrot aux orgues historiques Clicquot de la priorale de

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Jacques Boyvin Jacques Boyvin (c. 1649 – 30 June 1706) was a French Baroque composer and organist. He was probably born in Paris, and studied there. One of his first jobs was that of organist of the Parisian church ''des Quinze-Vingts'', and in 1674 he was app ...

Pieces from Book 2 : Plein Jeu, Trio, Basse et dessus de Trompette, Fugue, Récit grave, Dialogue en Fugue sans tremblant. François-Henri Clicquot organ from

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Édouard Batiste Édouard Batiste (28 March 1820 – 9 November 1876) was a French composer and organist. Career Batiste was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatory as a teenager, winning prizes in solfège, harmony In music, harmony is the process ...

''Offertoire op. 40 en si mineur'
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of the . An excerpt from a recital with works by Theodore Lack,

Louis Vierne Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French organist and composer. As the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death, he focused on organ music, including six organ symphonies and a '' Messe solennelle ...

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''Offertoire la St-François'', sur les orgues Dom Bedos restituées par Pascal Quoirin de l'église Sainte-Croix in

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