Saint-Roch

296, rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris

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E2 1750-1756 The organ was built by François-Henri Lesclop. He died during the construction, and the completion of the instrument was entrusted to Louis-Alexandre Clicquot. Parts of the earlier organ by Étienne Enocq, dating from 1671, were incorporated. When the work was accepted, the organ had 34 stops spread over four manuals (Positif and Grand Orgue, 50 notes each; Récit, 27 notes; and Echo, 34 notes) and a pedalboard extended down to low F, for a total compass of 35 notes. 1769–1770 François-Henri Clicquot carried out various work on the windchests and added reed and flute stops. • Addition of a Bombarde 16’ and a Trompette 8’ on a Bombarde windchest, though these were still played from the Grand Orgue manual. • Removal of the Grand Orgue Doublette 2’ and installation of a treble Flûte 8’ in its place. • On the Positif, addition of a Quarte 2’ and a Clairon- Hautbois 4’–8’. • On the Echo, the Cornet was removed and replaced by a Flûte 8’ and a Trompette 8’. • Addition of a Bombarde 16’ to the Pedal. • Enlargement of the Positif case at the back in depth. New windchests were made for the Positif, Grand Orgue, Echo, and Pedal. • Installation of a new four-manual console with pedalboard. • Mechanical action was overhauled. 1805 The instrument was repaired by organ builder Pierre Dallery. • Pipework from other Parisian instruments was reused, notably from the organ of the Petits Augustins at the École Militaire (Lépine). • The Positif pipework was reconstructed. • The keyboard layout was changed, since the number of manuals was brought to five with the creation of a Bombarde manual; until then, the stops on the Bombarde windchest had been played from the Grand Orgue manual. 1820–1826 Pierre-François Dallery restored and modified the instrument once more, bringing it to 48 stops on five manuals and pedal. • The windchests were altered so that the Positif, Grand Orgue, and Bombarde manuals went from 50 to 54 notes, the Récit from 27 to 35 notes, and the Echo from 37 to 38 notes. • The Doublette 2’, Tierce 1 3/5’, and the Grand Orgue mixtures were removed, and a Galoubet 2’ and two treble Flûte 8’ stops were added. • The Récit, Echo, and Pedal also received additional stops. 1842 The organ was rebuilt by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who reused much of the old pipework and most of the windchests. • Harmonic and string stops were introduced. • The Echo division was removed. • A new expressive Récit of 54 notes was created with 9 new stops. • The bellows system was rebuilt. • The console was rebuilt and combination pedals were installed. • A Barker machine was fitted to the Grand Orgue. The new organ then had 49 stops on four manuals of 54 notes each and a German-style pedalboard of 25 notes, from low F to high F. 1859–1881 Further work was carried out by Cavaillé-Coll. 1901 Charles Mutin extended the pedal compass from 25 to 30 notes. 1927 Modifications by Joseph Gutschenritter: • The manual order was changed: the Positif (formerly first manual) became the second, the Grand Orgue (formerly second) became the first, the Bombarde (formerly third) became the fourth, and the Récit (formerly fourth) became the third. • On the Récit, Cavaillé-Coll’s Clarinette 8’ and Voix humaine 8’ were removed and replaced by a Quintaton 16’, a Gambe 8’, and a Voix céleste 8’. • The mechanism was restored. • Additional combination pedals were added. 1946–1948 Joseph Gutschenritter added further stops to the Récit, including fonds and mutations, in a neo-classical style. 1994 A complete restoration was entrusted to Jean Renaud. The aim was to bring the instrument back to its 1858/81 configuration while preserving the extended pedal compass added by Mutin. The neo-classical additions made by Mutin and Gutschenritter were removed, and the original manual order was restored. The voicing was carried out by Jean-Pierre Swiderski. Most of the stops date from before the Revolution, including all the reeds of the Grand Orgue and Positif, and most of the Pedal reeds. The new parts are the Récit windchest (10 stops), the Viole de gambe, the Voix céleste, the Tierce and the added Plein Jeu IX on the Positif, and the Voix humaine on the Récit. This organ is a fine blend of Clicquot’s French classical organ and Cavaillé-Coll’s romantic style.

Titular organist Françoise Levéchin-Gangloff Organistes célèbres ayant illustré l’instrument par le passé: Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Pierre Cochereau (1945- 1955). Parish website Vidéos Françoise Levéchin-Gangloff Arnaud Bahuaud Photos GO : Jeroen de Haan Eglise : Vincent Hildebrandt