Occupation Pipe organ builder Name Jean-Esprit Isnard | Religion Roman Catholic | |
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Relatives Joseph Isnard (brother)Jean-Baptiste Isnard (nephew) | ||
Grand Orgue Jean Esprit ISNARD de la Basilique de Saint Maximin la Ste Baume.
Jean-Esprit Isnard (1707–1781) was a French pipe organ builder.
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- Grand Orgue Jean Esprit ISNARD de la Basilique de Saint Maximin la Ste Baume
- Early life
- Career
- Death
- References
Early life
Jean-Esprit Isnard was born in 1707. He was baptised in the Eglise Saint-Laurent in Bedarrides. He learned how to build pipe organs in Toulouse.
His brother, Joseph Isnard, was also a renowned pipe organ builder, as was his nephew Jean-Baptiste Isnard.
Career
He became a renowned builder of pipe organs. Many of his pipe organs can be found in Roman Catholic churches in Provence. In 1742, as a lay brother, he restored the pipe organ inside the Eglise Sainte-Marthe in Tarascon. The following year, in 1743, he built the pipe organ inside the Eglise de la Madeleine in Aix-en-Provence. He went on to build the pipe organs inside the Cathedrale Saint-Sauveur, also in Aix. In Marseille, he built the organ inside the Eglise Saint-Cannat in 1747. In, together with his brother Joseph Isnard, he built the pipe organ inside the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume from 1772 to 1774.
Additionally, he taught Jean-Pierre Cavaille, the father of Dominique Cavaille-Coll and grandfather of Aristide Cavaille-Coll (1811-1899), how to build pipe organs.
Death
He died in 1781 in Tarascon, where he is buried.