SATURDAY 6.30 PMSainte-Clotilde (1859, III/71) SUNDAY 10 - 12 AMTwelve options - see below10.00 AMSt. Sulpice Audition (organ concert)3.55 PMSacré-Coeur Vespers5 PMSt. Eustache Audition (organ concert)6.40 PMSt. Etienne-du-Mont Evening Mass 9.55 PM Sacré-Coeur Evening Mass OPTIONS SUNDAY BETWEEN 10-12 AM, attending the prelude of the 11 AM mass If you prefer the symphonic organs:•Ste. Clotilde•St. Etienne-du-Mont•Ste. Trinité •Ste. Madeleine •Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix•Église d’Auteuil (silent due to restoration of the church)•St. Bernard de la Chapelle•St. Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts Other organs you should visit (but don’t fit into any schedule):•Saint-Denis, cathédrale•Aubervilliers, Notre-Dame-des-Vertus•Versailles, Cathédrale St. Louis (silent due to restoration of the church)If you prefer French baroque organs:•St-Nicolas-des-Champs (silent - in a bad condition)•St-Roch •St-Gervais If you prefer German baroque organs:St-Louis-en-l’ile (silent due to restoration of the church)Consult the pdf-file for more information/details
How to hear as much
organs as possible
during a weekend?
Organ concerts (‘audition d’orgue’) are scarse in Paris. To hear the organs, you often have to attend the masses. The organ is mostly used during the masses on Saturday-evening and Sunday-morning. The organist plays the prelude (often very short), the offertoire (2-3 minutes) the communion (6-10 minutes) and the sortie (5 minutes). Many organs are tuned before Christmas and before Easter.Many organs need maintenance-works rather urgently, but the city of Paris has only very limited resources for its organs…
Agenda of organ concerts in ParisSATURDAY 6.30pm Ste-Clotilde (1859, III/71) MassSUNDAY Ten options - see below10.00am St.Sulpice Audition (organ concert)4pm Sacré-Coeur Vespers5pm St-Eustache Audition (organ concert)6.40pm St.Etienne-du-Mont Evening Mass 10pm Sacré-Coeur Evening Mass OTHER OPTIONS SUNDAY BETWEEN 10.00-11.30, attending the prelude of the 11.00 mass If you prefer the symphonic organs:•Ste Clotilde•St Etienne-du-Mont•Ste Trinité •Ste Madeleine •Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix•Église d’Auteuil (silent due to restoration of the church)•St Bernard de la Chapelle•St Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts If you prefer French baroque organs:•St-Nicolas-des-Champs (very bad condition)•St-Roch •St-Gervais If you prefer German baroque organs:•St-Louis-en-l’ile (silent due to restoration of the church)Other organs you should visit (but don’t fit into any schedule):•Saint-Denis, cathédrale•Aubervilliers, Notre-Dame-des-Vertus•Versailles, Cathédrale St. Louis (silent due to restoration of the church)Consult the pdf-file for more information/details