Gaston Litaize

Concurrently, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in October 1927,[2] studying with Marcel Dupré and Henri Büsser, as well as privately with Louis Vierne.

[5] He began working as organist at Saint-Cloud in 1934, and after leaving the Paris Conservatoire in 1939 he returned to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles to teach harmony.

[5] His improvisations were called "shattering displays" and compared favorably to Dupré, Jeanne Demessieux, Pierre Cochereau, and Anton Heiller.

However, I decided to play the organ, choosing Gaston Litaize at the CNR de St-Maur-des-Fossés as my teacher as I had heard him give a very exciting recital at the Cathedral of Boulogne-sur-Mer.

[5]He also taught organ to several notable organists, including Antoine Bouchard,[10] Theo Brandmüller,[11] Olivier Latry, Françoise Levechin-Gangloff, Kenneth Gilbert, Jean-Pierre Leguay, and René Saorgin.

[14] Litaize was involved with experimental music; soon after the inception of musique concrète he was asked to write a piece for African xylophone, four bells, three zanzas, and two whirligigs, which Pierre Schaeffer fragmented and reformed into Étude aux tourniquets in 1948–49.