The Origins of Seewen’s Welte-Philharmonie   THE DIAPASON March 2008   David Rumsey and Christoph E. Hänggi
The famous Welte-Mignon player-piano appeared on the market in 1905. This rather arcane piano technology was adapted to the “Welte-Philharmonie-Orgel.”. Welte successfully went on to market player organs, cinema organs, cinema player organs and, later, when that market contracted during the 1930s, church organs.
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Théodore Dubois and César Franck at Sainte-Clotilde   THE DIAPASON January 2008   Helga Schauerte-Maubouet, English translation by Carolyn Shuster Fournier
Dubois’ memoirs, recently rediscovered at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and partially published in the complete edition of his organ works, shed new light on many of the unclear details in the unfolding of what has been labeled as “the Sainte-Clotilde Tradition”
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