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Louis Raffy

1868 – 1931

French organist and composer

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Lived 1868 – 1931 (aged 62–63). Louis Raffy was a French organist and composer.

Antoine Louis Raffy (1868 in Laroque-Timbaut, Lot-et-Garonne – died in March 1931 in Nérac) was a French composer of church music and organist.

Biography Raffy was organist at the which has an organ of 23 stops built by the Magen company of Agen (1862).

Works Organ and harmonium L’Orgue, 3 booklets, Paris: Loret fils and H. Freytag, (1899–1901). Pieces in Échos jubilaires des maîtres de l’orgue, published by abbott Henri Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse (1908 and 1929). Pieces in the Archives de l’Organiste, 8 vol. published by H. Delépine, Procure de musique religieuse. École d’Orgue, Méthode complète pour harmonium, 2 vol., Saint-Leu-la-Forêt: Procure de musique religieuse (1908). Célèbres et Grands Organistes Célèbres et Grands Maîtres Classiques, collection of pieces for organ or harmonium, for the use of the divine service, chosen and annotated by Louis Raffy, 6 vol, Op. 57-62. Arras: Procure générale de musique religieuse (1910–13). 10 Pieces for organ or harmonium, St-Laurent-sur-Sèvre: L.-J. Biton, (1913). 200 Versets, préludes, antiennes, etc. dans les tons majeurs et mineurs les plus usités, extraits des œuvres des maîtres anciens, choisis ou transcrits pour l’orgue, Arras: Procure générale de musique religieuse, (1913). Pastorale et noël for organ, [s.l.] [s.n.], (1914). La Lyre Sacrée, collection of pieces for organ or harmonium, Paris: Procure générale de musique religieuse, s.d. Le Service de l’organiste, pièces pratiques pour orgue ou harmonium à l’usage du service divin, in 12 deliveries, 1st delivery (1914). Suite pour Orgue Op. 74, St-Laurent-sur-Sèvre: L.-J. Biton, (1914). Meditation, for the reed or pipe organ. Extracted from the 2d Series of the Parnassus of the organists for the XXth century, Hythe (Kent): the Organ Music Publishing Office (1914). Reflets de vitraux, Op. 81. Pieces for organ or harmonium, 2 vol. Paris: Procure générale (1930).

Piano Dans le vague, elegy for piano, Paris: Loret fils et H. Freylag, (1896). Fleurette ! suite of waltzes for piano, Paris: Loret fils and H. Freylag, (1896). Gitanilla, bohemian dance for piano, Arras: Société d’éditions modernes, (1912). Sorrentina, tarentelle for piano, Arras: Société d’éditions modernes, (1912).

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Born
1868, Lot-et-Garonne
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Died
1931, Nérac
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Who was Louis Raffy?

French organist and composer

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Louis Raffy was born in 1868 in Lot-et-Garonne.

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Louis Raffy died in 1931 in Nérac.

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Louis Raffy was an organist and composer.

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Louis Raffy was French.

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