Félix Danjou
Jean-Louis-Félix Danjou (21 June 1812 – 4 March 1866) was a French organist, composer-arranger, and organist. He is best remembered for having discovered the Antiphonary of St. Benigne in 1847.
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Félix Danjou
- Born
- 1812 · Paris.
- Died
- 1866 · Montpellier.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- organist · composer · musicologist · journalist
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages
- French
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Félix Danjou apparaît dans les notices d'autorité de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek comme compositeur et organiste (11 juin 1812 – 4 mars 1866).
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Félix Danjou naquit le 11 juin 1812 à Paris et mourut le 4 mars 1866 à Montpellier (Hérault).
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And as founder of the Revue de la musique religieuse.
Danjou was organist at Church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux 1831–34, Saint-Eustache from 1834–1844, at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1840 to 1847. He was also a partner with André-Marie Daublaine and:fr:Louis Callinet, of the:fr:Callinet family, in the:fr:Daublaine-Callinet organ company.
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1866
Félix Danjou died at Montpellier.
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- 1.Pierre Combe, The Restoration of Gregorian Chant: Solesmes and the Vatican Edition (CUA Press, 2008), p. 13f.
- 2.Fenner Douglass, Cavaillé-Coll and the Musicians, volume 1 (1980): "Jean-Louis-Felix Danjou (1812–66), a Parisian, began his career as organist at age seventeen for the church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux, having earlier been taught by the clergy of that parish, then by Benott at the ..."
- 3.Katharine Ellis, Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century (2008), p. 258: "Félix Danjou (1812–1866): Organist at Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux (1831–34); Saint-Eustache (1834–44); Notre Dame de Paris (1840–47). Discovered the Montpellier Codex (1847). Founder of the Revue de la musique religieuse, ...
- 4.William A. Little, Mendelssohn and the Organ (2010): "... by one of the country's leading activists for the reform and improvement of church music, Jean-Louis-Félix Danjou (1812–1866). Danjou was organist at St. Eustache (1834–1844) and then at Notre Dame Cathedral (1841–1847) in Paris,"
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