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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
On March 20, 1877, I inaugurated the grand orgue of the Church of Notre- Dame-des-Champs in Paris. It's an excellent organ, but it doesn't have the size of Saint-Sulpice or Notre-Dame. Its titular was an outstanding musician, Auguste Andlauer, who died one Sunday while playing the Magnificat. Suddenly, in the middle of the Mass, a terrible thunder was heard; Andlauer had collapsed onto his pedalboard, with all the stops of the organ being drawn. René Vierne, the brother of Louis Vierne, organist of Notre-Dame, succeeded him.
Cavaillé-Coll was on the parish council of Notre-Dame-des-Champs, and had very close ties with the parish priest, Abbé Joseph Cognat, who had studied at the seminary with Ernest Renan. On the mantelpiece of the holy man, you could see the really curious photograph of Renan, in a cassock, arm in arm with him.
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