Bibliography

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Ses origines, sa vie, ses œuvres, Paris, Fischbacher, 1929, 183

The basic work on the life and character of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.

Cavaillé-Coll - Mode d’emploi, Obed Visuel, 2014

Illustrated study of various facets of the work of Maison Cavaillé-Coll, testifying to the “work in progress” carried out by the author, a retired organ builder. [Review in La Flûte Harmonique n° 96, p. 91-93.]

Cavaillé-Coll and the Musicians. A Documented Account of His First Thirty Years in Organ Building, 2 volumes, 2 volumes, Raleigh, Sunbury, 1980, 800+734

ISBN 0-915548-09-7

Publication of numerous documents from the Cavaillé-Coll archives (letters and studio documents, originals and English translation) preceded by an important historical account.

Cavaillé-Coll’s Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter’s, Rome. Bigger Than Them All, Lanham et al., Lexington Books, 2011, (219)

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. A Compendium of Known Stoplists / Répertoire des compositions connues d’orgues, Paderborn, Peter Ewers, 2003, 802

The result of many years of in-depth research still in progress, based as much on the Cavaillé-Coll archives as on countless secondary sources, this voluminous essential work is an authority on the whole of Cavaillé-Coll’s work. The texts and comments are mainly in English with French and German versions of the general presentations.

"[Compilation de documents et actes]", S.O.S. Matthieu. Dossiers et Documents (Montpellier), [1ère & 2e année], 2/3 & 4/6, III-VI/1991 & V/1993, 23-49, 53-140

Very rich set of documents in facsimile on the Cavaillé-Coll and their entourage, in particular n° 2/3 page 36; family tree “The Cavaillé: two centuries of organ building”.

De Gaillac… à Héry. Une chainede talents autour des Cavaillé-Coll, lieu non précisé, Éditions Raymond Guérin, 2007, 129

ISBN 978-2-7466-0090-4

"Quelques aspects méconnus de l’œuvre d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll", ISOJournal, 5, juillet 1999, 31-39

Based on his sharing of various “stories that were still going around within the Parisian workshops during the time of [his] apprenticeship,” the author offers interesting elements of analysis of Cavaillé-Coll’s work in its context.

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Liste des travaux exécutés, Lauffen (Allemagne), Orgelbau-Fachverlag Rensch, 1985, 64

Transcription of the Great Black Book of Orders from the Cavaillé-Coll workshops, listing some 700 projects, recorded by Dom Joseph Kreps in 1949, published and annotated by the musicologist G. Huybens with a trilingual preface.

Fundamental work for the study of the work of Cavaillé-Coll.

"Reflections on the Esthetic Evolution of the Cavaillé-Coll Organ", Charles Brenton Fisk, Organ Builder, Vol. 1, Essays in His Honor, Vol. 1, Easthampton, The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, 1986, 119-141

La Manufacture d’orgues Cavaillé-Coll, Avenue du Maine, Paris, Aux Amateurs de Livres, 1988, 301

ISBN 2-90275-700-22

Les Grandes Orgues des Églises de Paris et du Département de la Seine, Paris, Fischbacher, 1927

Numerous historical and descriptive notices, often with a list of owners, representing the state of the instruments (including several organs by Cavaillé-Coll) before the modifications of the “neo-classical” period.

La palette sonore de Cavaillé-Coll, Pessac, Jeunesse et Orgue, 1979

Les orgues de salon d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, L’Orgue Cahiers et Mamoires, 57-58, 1997, (159)

Cavaillé-Coll en Nederland. Een studie naar het werk van Cavaillé-Coll en diens invloed in Nederland in de periode 1875-1924, Alphen a.d.Rijn, Canaletto, 2009, (492)

ISBN 978-90-6469-848-4