Marie-Louise Girod

She was also a colleague of Jehan Alain, and heard him play his most famous composition, Litanies (JA 119), and also attended the 1,750th organ recital of Louis Vierne (where he suffered a heart attack and died).

In 1953, she recorded the world première (conducted by Louis Martini) of the famous Te Deum, H. 146 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (as of 2014 distributed by CD Erato).

In 1961 she recorded music by Francis Seyrig on the organ of the Oratoire for Alain Resnais' film, L'Année last à Marienbad.

Girod lead an active concert career and was director of the Saint-Dié organ Academy, and also served as its honorary president.

She was Protestant, and married archaeologist and historian André Parrot in 1960, becoming his second wife; and consequently became a stepmother to his five children from a previous marriage.

Girod at the organ of the Oratoire du Louvre in March 2004.