Claude Parisot
French pipe organ builder

Claude Parisot

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French pipe organ builder
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Male
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Birth:
(Étain)
Death:
3 March 1784(Étain)
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Claude Parisot (c. 1704 in Étain – 3 March 1784 in Étain) was a French organ builder. He came from a family of organ builders: his nephew Henri in turn built and repaired many instruments in Lower Normandy and Maine. He learned his art with Moucherel of Lorraine, then in 1727 with Louis-Alexandre and Jean-Baptiste Clicquot in Paris.
Beginning in 1735, Parisot built numerous organs in northern and western France:
1736 Church of St Rémy, Dieppe, restored and currently used by the École Nationale de Musique. Numerous recordings available.
1741 Premonstratensian abbey of Mondaye (near Bayeux)
1747 Notre-Dame de Guibray, Falaise
Premonstratensian abbey of Séry-aux-Prés (Seine-Maritime)
Church of St George and Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Abbeville
Sées Cathedral
Ardenne Abbey (near Caen)
Jacobin convent, Caen
Abbey of St André en Gouffern (near Falaise)