Pierre Thierry

He apprenticed with the best known organists at that time, first Valéran de Héman and then Crespin Carlier, with whom he became a partner for a while.

[2] In 1636 he married Marguerite Leclerc, sister of the organist at the Grands Augustins church.

[1] He worked in Paris at Notre Dame, Saint-Jean and Saint-Gervais, where he upgraded the organ in 1649 and again in 1661.

[2] For almost forty years as a restorer, builder or expert, he fertilized organ building in Paris, earning the title of organ-builder to the king.

He launched the organ-building careers of his sons Charles, Jean (who made pipes in their workshop), and especially Alexandre Thierry, the most gifted and best able to take over direction of the family firm after the death of their father.