André Pirro was a French

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 musicologist and an organist

Organist

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.

Born in Saint-Dizier

Saint-Dizier

Saint-Dizier is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.It has a population of 31,000 and is a subprefecture of the department...

, Pirro learned to play the organ from his father Jean Pirro

Jean Pirro

Jean Pirro was a French linguist who in 1868 invented the "universal language", Universalglot. He was also the father of André Pirro.-See also:*Constructed languages...

. In Paris

Paris

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 where he became and organist and a choirmaster for the Collège Stanislas de Paris

Collège Stanislas de Paris

Le Collège Stanislas de Paris is a private Catholic school in Paris, situated on "Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs" in the Montparnasse arrondissement. It has approximately 3,000 students, and is the largest private school in France....

. He studied with César Franck

César Franck

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....

 and taught music history at the Schola Cantorum

Schola Cantorum

The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private music school in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera...

. Pirro published his academic thesis

Thesis

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 on the Aesthetics of Bach in 1907, followed by Descartes and the Music. His famous pupils include Vladimir Fédorov

Vladimir Fédorov

Vladimir Fédorov was a French musicologist, librarian, and composer of Russian birth. He studied with André Pirro at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied composition privately with Paul Vidal...

, Dragan Plamenac, Armand Machabey, Marc Pincherle

Marc Pincherle

Marc Pincherle was born in Constantine on June 13, 1888 and died in Paris on June 20, 1974. A French musicologist, music critic and violinist, he was the pupil of Louis Laloy, André Pirro and Romain Rolland, among others....

 and Jacques Chailley.

Publications

• L'Esthétique de Jean-Sébastien Bach (Paris, 1907),
• L'orgue de Jean-Sébastien Bach (Paris, 1895),
• Jean-Sébastien Bach (Paris, 1906),
• Descartes et la musique (Paris, 1907)
• Dietrich Buxtehude (Paris, 1911),
• Schütz (Paris, 1913),
• Jean-Sébastien Bach, auteur comique (Madrid, 1915),
• Les Clavecinistes : étude critique (Paris, 1924),
• La Musique à Paris sous le règne de Charles VI, 1380-1422 (Strasbourg, 1930),
• La Musique française du Moyen-Age à la Révolution (Paris, 1940),
• Histoire de la Musique de la fin du XI ème siècle à la fin du XVI ème (Paris, 1940),
• numerous articles in French and other journals,
• 14 biographical notes for the Archives des maîtres de l'orgue (Paris, 1897–1909).