Edmond Lemaigre


Edmond Lemaigre was a 19th-century French organist, conductor and composer.

Biography

Lemaire began his musical studies in his hometown with Charles Renaud de Vilbac.
In 1872, he continued his studies of writing in Paris with Charles-Joseph Vervoitte, Kapellmeister and organist of the Saint-Roch church, and pipe organ with Édouard Batiste.
In 1877 he became the first holder of the new organ of the cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand, inaugurated on May 26, 1877, a position he held until 1888, when he moved to Paris. Aloÿs Claussmann succeeded him at the pulpit.
The organist of the Concerts of the Trocadéro in Paris, Lemaigre played there several of his compositions on the new organ Cavaillé-Coll of the grand hall.
He succeeded his father at the head of the "Société Lyrique" in 1881, and in 1883 he founded the "Association Artistique du Centre" at Clermont-Ferrand.

Works for organ