Le Souffle d'Ange | Gilles Laporte

EAN : 9782258199767

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Pages : 416

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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Ange's Breath

Gilles Laporte

Collection : Terres de France

Release date : 25/08/2022

From 1898 to 1950, from Normandy to Lorraine, a story of passion and ambition: Ange, a brilliant young girl from a modest country family, became one of the great figures in the very male world of organ building.

Moved by a “revelation” of music in the abbey of Saint-Wandrille, Ange decided at a very young age to dedicate herself to the restoration of organs. She left her native Normandy with her husband Fortunato for Lorraine, where she was trained in the prestigious Vosges factory of the great organ... Moved by a “revelation” of music in the abbey of Saint-Wandrille, Ange decided at a very young age to dedicate herself to the restoration of organs. She left her native Normandy with her husband Fortunato for Lorraine, where she was trained in the prestigious Vosges factory of the great organ manufacturer Jaquot-Jeanpierre. Fortunato worked as a workshop manager in a nearby village. But the 1914 war separated the couple, and Fortunato returned from the front a much weakened man. Ange supported him with all her love while, church to church, restoration to restoration, she threw herself into her work. Ange’s life was also marked by the death of her parents from Spanish flu, and by chance encounters: the famous Louis Majorelle of the École de Nancy: Gaston Litaize, a talented blind organist from the Vosges; and during the Second World War another Normandy native, Jean Marais. In October 1944, Ange was called back to Normandy for an extraordinary reunion: the Lesselier organ in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, which had been seriously damaged by Allied bombing. She alone could give back its voice.

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EAN : 9782258199767

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Pages : 416

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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