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Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame. By Anthony Hammond. (Eastman Studies in Music, vol. 91.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. [x, 346 p. ISBN 9781580464055. $85.] Music ex- amples, illustrations, work lists, appendices, bibliography, index.The French organist, improviser, com- poser, and pedagogue Cochereau (1924-1984) was, in his lifetime, feted, re- viled, and generally successful. Because he wrote little and published seldom, Coche- reau's legacy as a composer rests almost en- tirely on the improvisations with which he concluded his recitals and amplified church services at Notre-Dame de Paris, where he was organist from 1955. Cochereau has been held accountable by some for the long neglect, then perhaps overly radical renova- tion of the historic Cavaille-Coll instrument at Notre-Dame. He further provoked with his idiosyncratic recordings of early music, such as multiple renditions of Francois Couperin's Messe pour les couvents and Messe pour les paroisses, usuall
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Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame. By Anthony Hammond. (Eastman Studies in Music, vol. 91.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. [x, 346 p. ISBN 9781580464055. $85.] Music ex- amples, illustrations, work lists, appendices, bibliography, index.The French organist, improviser, com- poser, and pedagogue Cochereau (1924-1984) was, in his lifetime, feted, re- viled, and generally successful. Because he wrote little and published seldom, Coche- reau's legacy as a composer rests almost en- tirely on the improvisations with which he concluded his recitals and amplified church services at Notre-Dame de Paris, where he was organist from 1955. Cochereau has been held accountable by some for the long neglect, then perhaps overly radical renova- tion of the historic Cavaille-Coll instrument at Notre-Dame. He further provoked with his idiosyncratic recordings of early music, such as multiple renditions of Francois Couperin's Messe pour les couvents and Messe pour les paroisses, usuall
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