François Thierry

Andreas Silbermann arrived in Strasbourg in 1702, then came to Paris to improve his skills and study Parisian methods of organ making.

He was first rebuffed by Jacques Carouge, then found an attentive and generous teacher in François Thierry, who also taught his art to Pierre Legros and Nicolas Dupont of Lorraine.

His greatest work was the construction in Notre Dame de Paris of a new organ in a new buffet, reusing some components of previous instruments, between 1730 and 1733.

It included several major innovations, and was the largest in the kingdom until Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Lefebvre completed the monumental organ in the Basilica of St. Martin of Tours.

At the reception of the organ, the best organists of the time performed: Guillaume-Antoine Calvière, Pierre Du Mage, Louis-Claude Daquin and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.

Organ of Notre-Dame de Paris. The buffet is largely unchanged.