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Georges Guillard

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Biography

Georges Guillard, born on May 19, 1939, in Saint-Just-la-Pendue, France, is an organist. He began his career as an organist at the Grandes Orgues de Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux and the Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île in Paris. Guillard founded and headed the Department of early music at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, earned a doctorate in musicology with a thesis, "L'orgue à Paris de 1964 à 1986." He was a frequent performer at Radio France and the main festivals in Paris. His discography includes several world premieres, such as the organ work of Gottfried August Homilius and the first "Weimar version" of J.S. Bach’s Leipzig choirs. Guillard's recordings of Jehan Alain's Oeuvres Instrumentales & Vocales Vol. 2 and Oeuvres Instrumentales et Vocales Vol. 3 earned him two Golden Orpheus awards from the Académie du disque lyrique in 1992 and 1996.
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