Édouard Souberbielle


Édouard Souberbielle was a 20th-century French organist, Kapellmeister and music educator.

Biography

Souberbielle first studied with his mother, a former pupil of Émile Delaborde, son of Charles-Valentin Alkan.
He continued his studies at the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Abel Decaux, Maurice Sergent, and Louis Vierne. In 1925, he obtained a first prize in harmony and a first prize in organ at the Conservatoire de Paris.
During his career, he was choirmaster or organist of several churches in Paris: Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant, then St-Ambroise, and finally St-Pierre-de-Chaillot and Église Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes.
He married Madeleine, daughter of Léon Bloy. They had a son, Léon Souberbielle, organist, choirmaster, author of a book on Le Plein-Jeu de l’Orgue Français à l'époque classique , 1977.
From 1926, he taught the organ at the Schola Cantorum, then at the École César Franck from 1935, and at the l’Institut catholique de Paris from 1943. He trained a number of leading organists including Arsène Bedois, Francis Chapelet, Michel Chapuis, Lynne Davis, Jacques Dussouil, André Isoir, Thierry Martin,, Jean-Albert Villard, Odile Bailleux, etc.

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