André Marchal

André Louis Marchal (6 February 1894 – 27 August 1980) was a French organist and organ teacher.

He was one of the great initiators of the twentieth-century organ revival in France and one of the cofounders of the Association des amis de l'orgue alongside Norbert Dufourcq.

Undaunted by this handicap, he studied the organ under Eugène Gigout at the Paris Conservatoire and there, in 1913, won First Prize in organ-playing.

[1] Marchal taught organ at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris, in addition to serving as titular organist of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1915–1945) and Saint-Eustache (1945–1963).

[3] Among his students were many distinguished musicians such as Jean Langlais, Peter Hurford, Louis Thiry and Jean-Pierre Leguay, one of three titulaires du grand orgue of Notre-Dame de Paris.