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Jean Esprit Isnard

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Occupation
  
Pipe organ builder

Name
  
Jean-Esprit Isnard

Resting place
  
Tarascon

Religion
  
Roman Catholic

Died
  
1781, Tarascon, France

Jean-Esprit Isnard
Born
  
1707
Bedarrides, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France

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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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.

References

Jean-Esprit Isnard Wikipedia