Michel Chapuis

Michel Chapuis’ profession as organist so that as expert in efficiency upon historically essential instruments began in Cathedral of Dôle when he was quite little. He proceeded to review music in Paris; his instructors included Eduoard Souberbielle for body organ, René Malherbe for structure, and Emile Poillot. In 1951, while learning under Marcel Dupré on the Conservatoire de Paris, Chapuis got first award in body organ and improvisation (the Prix Périlhou et Guilmant). He offered as organist for the Paris churches of St. Germain l’Auxerrois (1951-1954) and St. Nicolas des Champs (1954-1972), followed at Notre Dame from 1955 to 1964, and was titular organist of St. Séverin from 1964. At exactly the same time, he has kept body organ teaching posts on the renowned conservatories of Strasbourg (1956-1979), Besançon (1979-1986), and lastly Paris (1986-1995). In 1995, Chapuis was called organist towards the Versailles Royal Chapel. Both Chapuis’ existence as a instructor so that as a performer have already been focused on historically informed overall performance; his best contribution has been around musical interpretations upon historical instruments. Furthermore to performances of each surviving little bit of French body organ music from your seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years around the Cliquot body organ of St. Nicolas des Champs, he offers produced several recordings coordinating early repertory to historical devices: Daquin Noëls around the 1710 Silbermann body organ of Marmoutier, Couperin around the 1772 body organ by Sibling Isnard of Tarascon in Saint-Maximin, Marchand around the 1782 Cliquot body organ at Souvigny. Chapuis in addition has personally supervised many device restorations across France.