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Charles-Marie Widor

Personb. 1844 · Lyon, France, France

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Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) was a French organist, composer, and teacher whose career spanned the late-Romantic era. Born in Lyon, he succeeded his father as organist at Saint-François-de-Sales and later held the prestigious post at Saint-Sulpice in Paris for over six decades. Widor is best remembered for his ten organ symphonies, which expanded the instrument’s symphonic possibilities, and for his widely used pedagogical treatise on orchestration. He also composed operas, ballets, chamber music, and choral works, and taught at the Paris Conservatoire, where Marcel Dupré and Albert Schweitzer were among his pupils.