Roger Boucher (13 January 1885 – 20 October 1918)

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Mémoire des Hommes, Ministère de la Défense was a French

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and composer.

Biography

Entered at the

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in 1901, Roger Boucher won a 2nd prize in harmony (class of

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) in 1906, a 1st prize in piano accompaniment (class of

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) in 1907, 1st prize of counterpoint (class of André Gedalge) in 1909, 1st prize in

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in 1909, 1st prize in organ (class of Alexandre Guilmant) in 1910, and 1st prize in fugue (class of

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) in 1910. Roger Boucher was successively organist at Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile, , in

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basilica, then titular of the grand organ of the Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris church, from 1910 to his death. He died as a result of war injuries at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital.

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dedicated to him the ''Pastorale'' of the second book of the '' Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre'' for organ Op. 31.''Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre''
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Scores

* : ''Cantabile'' in A-flat major for organ or harmonium, in

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, ''

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'', vol. 1 (1912).

Bibliography

* Biographical notes in ''Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue'' (second volume), Joseph Joubert, 1912. * Rollin Smith. ''Louis Vierne: organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral'', Pendragon Press, 1999, , p. 188 .

References

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