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
Charles-Valentin Alkan.
He continued his studies at the
Schola Cantorum de Paris with
Abel Decaux, Maurice Sergent, and
Louis Vierne. In 1925, he obtained a
first prize in
harmony
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(under
Jules Mouquet) and a first prize in organ (under
Eugène Gigout) at the
Conservatoire de Paris
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.
During his career, he was choirmaster or organist of several churches in Paris:
Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant, then
St-Ambroise (1929–43), and finally
St-Pierre-de-Chaillot and
Église Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes.
He married Madeleine, daughter of
Léon Bloy. They had a son, Léon Souberbielle (1923–1991), organist, choirmaster, author of a book on ''Le Plein-Jeu de l’Orgue Français à l'époque classique (1660 – 1740)'', 1977 (reissued by Delatour).
From 1926, he taught the organ at the Schola Cantorum, then at the
École César Franck from 1935, and at the l’
Institut catholique de Paris
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History: 1875–present
The Institut ...
(Gregorian Institute) from 1943. He trained a number of leading organists including Arsène Bedois,
Francis Chapelet,
Michel Chapuis, Lynne Davis, Jacques Dussouil,
André Isoir
André Jean-Marie Isoir (20 July 1935 – 20 July 2016) was a French organist and pedagogue.
Biography
André Isoir was born in 1935 in Saint-Dizier in Grand Est, France.
Isoir studied with Édouard Souberbielle (organ) and Germaine Mounier (p ...
, Thierry Martin, , Jean-Albert Villard,
Odile Bailleux, etc.
References
Published works
Jeux d'enfants pour piano Delatour France (2012). EAN 9790232107240
Delatour France (2012). EAN 9790232107257
External links
Note 5 by Denis Havard de la Montagne, at the bottom of the article on Jean Fellot by É. Souberbielle.
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Alexis Galpérine.
Édouard Souberbielle, un maître de l’orgue'' Delatour France (2010). Note: Alexis Galpérine, violinist, is Édouard Souberbielle's grandson.
France OrgueA record of varied recordings, included with Galperine's book.
''Édouard Souberbielle, grand pédagogue de l’orgue''on Res Musica (6 June 2012)
biography with numerous photos
on Delatour France
Recordings by Édouard Souberbielleon France-Orgue.org
Édouard Souberbielle - Divertissement pour quatuor à cordeson YouYube
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French classical organists
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
1899 births
People from Tarbes
1986 deaths
20th-century French organists
20th-century French male musicians
20th-century French classical musicians
French male classical organists
Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris