Henri Jules Joseph Nibelle (6 November 1883 – 18 November 1967) was a French organist, choral conductor and composer.

Henri Nibelle
Born(1883-11-06)6 November 1883
Briare, France
Died18 November 1967(1967-11-18) (aged 84)
Nice , France
EducationConservatoire de Paris
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Organist
  • Choral conductor
OrganizationsSaint-François-de-Sales

Biography

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Born in Briare, son and grandson of organists, Henri Nibelle attended the école Niedermeyer as early as 1898, before entering the Conservatoire de Paris, where in 1906 he won a first prize on fugue in the class of Fauré and a 1st accessit of organ in 1910 in the class of Guilmant. At the École Niedermeyer, Henri Nibelle was a student of Henri Büsser, with Maurice Le Boucher, Defosse, Roger Pénau. He also studied with Louis Vierne who dedicated to him Caprice, the third of the Pièces de Fantaisie for organ Op. 51. He began his career as an organist on the choir organ of the Versailles Cathedral in 1907. Two years later, he was appointed titular of the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, then became organist at the Grand Organ of Saint-François-de-Sales [fr] in 1912, and succeeded Isidore Massuelle[1] as maître de chapelle of this same church in 1931.

Having become almost blind, he left Saint-François-de-Sales in 1959 to retire to Nice and dedicate himself to the composition of religious works: short masses, solemn masses, psalms, motets, spiritual hymns, etc.

Nibelle died in Nice on 18 November 1967 aged 84.

Works

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Music for chorus
Music for organ (and pump organ)

Sources

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  • Musica et Memoria Denis Havard de la Montagne, Les Organistes et les maîtres de chapelle de l’église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul à Paris, Les Cahiers Boëllmann-Gigout, n°2/3, December 1997–March 1998.
  • Marc Honegger, Dictionnaire de la musique, vol. II - Les Hommes et leurs Œuvres L-Z, Paris, Bordas, 1970.

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