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LOUIS ALFRED JAMES LEFEBURE-WELY

13thNovember 1817 --- 31stDecember 1869

Louis Alfred James Lefebure-Wely was born in Paris,  and was the son of an organist.  Lefebure began studying at a earlier age with his
father (1756–1831),  who had shorten his  name to Antoine Lefebvre-Wely  after being appointed organist of the fashionable church of
St Roch. Lefebure was musically precocious, playing mass on Easter Tuesday 1826 on the organ of Saint-Roch at the aged of 8.

Two years after that occasion his father suffered a stroke paralysing his left side, so Lefebure then started to stand in place of his father
for the next 5 years, when his father died in 1831 Lefebure then took over his father position as official organist of Saint Roch.  While at
St Roch he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1832, were he studied under such people like Jaques Halevy, Henri Berton and organ with
Francois Benoist.

In 1836  Lefebure met and later  because very good  friends with Aristide Cavaille Coll,  who was a very famous  Organ Builder who had
just completed his first large symphonic organ in the very same year.  Cavaille Coll  later in life gained the  reputation of being the most
distinguished organ builder of the 19th century in France. Lefebure was offered the position of organist at The Church of the Madeleine
in Paris from 1847-1858, were he composed many of his works, Six Grand Offertories Opus.34 and 35,  Lefebure completed in 1858 the
three act opera comique, Les recruteurs.

It was 1863 he became principal organist at St Sulpice, where one of the largest and proberly grandest Cavaille Coll Organ was installed
which was one of the largest in France.  Lefebure died in Paris  at the age of 52.  He produce many work for Organ and Piano,  some fine
examples for Organ En avant march, Opus.147, and Fantaisie sur La Sonnambula, Opus.40 and for Piano Six Romance san paroles, Opus
160 and  Duo Symphonique for two pianos, Opus.181,  plus many others.  You can still buy CD's and sheet music of Lefebure works,  you
will also find fuller Bio's on Lefebure on the internet as well.

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