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Charles-Marie Widor was a great French composer of the late Romantic tradition. His father, the organist of St. François, was his first teacher. He later studied with Jacques Lemmens in Brussels. Even as a boy, Widor was a skilled improviser. By 1860, at age 16, he replaced his father as the organist at St François. In 1869 he became the organist at St. Sulpice, a position he did not relinquish until 1934 he was 90 years old. In 1890 Widor succeeded Franck as a professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory. Among his pupils was the famed Albert Schweitzer. |
