Abel Decaux

Abel -Marie Decaux ( born February 11, 1869 in Auffay, † March 19, 1943 in Paris) was a French organist, composer and music teacher.

Decaux studied from 1890 at the Paris Conservatoire composition with Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois and harmony with Albert Lavignac and organ with Charles -Marie Widor and at the Schola Cantorum organ with Alexandre Guilmant.

He then became organist at the church St.Gaervet and organ teacher at the Schola Cantorum. From 1903 to 1923 he was organist at the Basilica of Sacré- Cœur de Montmartre, where he in 1919 with Marcel Dupré and Charles -Marie Widor inaugurated the Castle displaced Ibarritz here Cavaillé -Coll organ.

From 1923 to 1935 Decaux taught at the Eastman School of Music, after his return to France he was a teacher at the organ Schuler Cesar Franck. His most important composition is Claire de Lune (1900), a four-part piano work, which has been before Schoenberg elements of atonal music. It was taken more recently (2006) by Marc- André Hamelin on CD. His Fughette sur ' Ave Maris Stella appeared in the Les Maitres de l' Orgue Contemporains collection.

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