Organiste titulaire
Jean-François Hatton, Ayumi Taga, Vincent Coupet
Concerts
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Masses with organ
Saturday at 6:30 p.m., Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Videos
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The Church of Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes is named
after Crown Prince Ferdinand-Philippe of Orleans,
who died in an accident in 1842 at the age of 32.
Queen Amelie had already erected the Chapel of
Saint-Ferdinand on the site of the tragedy (it was
completed in 1843): it is the present church of Our
Lady of compassion. But a new shrine was built from
1842 to 1845, not far from the first, on the plans of
the architect Paul-Eugène Lequeux (1806-1873). In
1860, the suburb called "Ternes" was attached to the
city of Paris. And in 1934, a new, larger church
replaced the old one. The plans are entrusted to
architects Paul Thédon, Frédéric Bertrand and Pierre
Durand. They chose the Roman-Byzantine style,
imbued with modernism. The building was completed
in 1957. Saint-Ferdinand is a splendid and vast church
with three domes, decorated with numerous paintings
(often in naïve style) made by artists designated by
the Fine Arts.
The old church had a Cavaillé-Coll large organ, built in
1853. It was the Opus 60, a 25-stop instrument with
three keyboards and a pedal, equipped with
mechanical transmissions. This organ was transferred
to the new church in the 1950s.In 1963, it was restored
by Beuchet-Debierre, who electrified the transmissions
and modified the harmonisation into the neo-classical
style. The upper buffet was dismantled and sol to
l’église St Jean-Baptiste de Montaigu (Vendée).
A second instrument of 14 stops on two keyboards and
a pedal was delivered by Cavaillé-Coll in December
1897 or January 1898 (Op 665). It was the former organ
of the Lamoureux Concerts of Paris, used as a choir
organ. This instrument was tranferred in 1932 to
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette near Douai (Nord).
In 1994 and 1995, Pascal QUOIRIN of Saint-Didier
(Vaucluse) built the current organ on a new tribune. It is
an instrument of classical French style but adapted to
the interpretation of a wider repertoire. The
transmissions are mechanical and the console is
located in the central window of the large buffet.
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In 2009, the organ of the crypt was dismantled to be
restored and then reassembled in l'église de Vaux-sur-
Seine (Yvelines).
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