Lefebvre family

The Lefebvre family was a family of famous organ builders in 17th and 18th century Normandy, France. The last name has occasionally been written as Lefèvre.

Saint-Étienne de Caen

Organ builders and their work

Clément Lefebvre (1630-1709)

Clément was father of Charles Lefebvre and a well-known organist in Rouen.[1]

  • 1670: Work on organ at Le Havre Cathedral (French article)[2]
  • 1685: Clement Lefebvre and his son, Germain, from Rouen, worked on the organ for the Saint-Michel Church[3]
  • 1724-1735 Jean-Baptiste (another one of Clement's sons) maintained the Saint-Michel Church organ.[3]

Charles Lefebvre (1670-1737)

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre (1705-1784)

JBNL was son of Charles Lefebvre, was one of the most famous European organ makers of the 18th century, building giant organs with five keyboards.[4]

Louis Lefebvre (1708-1754)

Louis-Charles Lefebvre was son of Charles Lefebvre.

  • 1737-1747: Brothers Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre and Louis Lefebvre along with their cousin Clement Lefebvre are commissioned to build a new organ at Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen (60 stops, 5 keyboards, 1 pedalboards)[9]
  • 1739-1740: An important restoration to the gothic Antoine Josseline and Gilbert Cocquerel organ of Église Notre-Dame Caudebec-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime) by brothers Jean-Baptiste and Louis Lefebvre (4 keyboards, 1 pedalboard).
  • 1746: Construction of a new 30-stop organ in the sepulcher of Montivilliers Abbey by brothers Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Lefebvre and Louis Lefebvre.[10]

Genealogy of the family

The following is the known genealogy of the family.[12]

Hector Lefebvre
x Jacqueline Rabette
│
└──> Nicolas Lefebvre
     x (1629) Ysabeau Morin
     │
     └──> Madeleine
     │
     └──>  Clément I (c. 1630 - 29 September 1709)
           x (10 August 1653) Anne Leloup 
           │
           └──> Nicolas (6 June 1654 - ?)
           └──> Germain (6 October 1656 - 1694)
           │
           └──> Clément II (21 August 1658 - 23 January 1697}
           │    x (4 July 1694) Philippe Arnout 
           │    │
           │    └──> Clément III (31 December 1696 - ?)
           │
           └──> Anne-Françoise (21 August 1659 - ?)
           │    x (30 January 1684) Jacques Aubert, tailor
           │
           └──> Claude (|29 December 1667-?)
           │
           └──> Charles (22 May 1670 - 8 September 1737)
           │    x 1st (21 January 1699) Marie-Anne Sourdière (? - 9 May 1713)
           │      │
           │      └──> Marie (28 December 1700 - ?)
           │      └──> Charles-François (27 April 1703 - ?)
           │      └──> Pierre (1 Juillet 1704 - 2 September 1705)
           │      └──> Nicolas Jean-Baptiste (6 February 1705 - 26 March 1784), bachelor
           │      └──> Louis-Charles (23 May 1708 - 23 December 1754)
           │      │    x (1752) Marie-Anne Tricotté (? - Year XIII)
           │      │    │
           │      │    └──> Louis Jean-Baptiste Salomon « Lefebvre de Flamanville » (30 August 1753 - ?)
           │      │    └──> Alexandrine Françoise (24 September 1754 - ?)
           │      │
           │      └──> Jean-Baptiste (8 August 1710 - ?)
           │      │
           │      └──> Marie-Anne (9| January 1711 - ?)
           │    
           │     x 2nd (16 June 1716) Anne Collet
           │      │
           │      └──> Pierre(14 September 1717-?), priest of Bois-Robert
           │      └──> Jean-Charles (11 February 1721 - ?)
           │      └──> Anne-Marguerite (28 August 1722 - ?)
           │      └──> Charles-Pierre (21 June 1726 - ?)
           │
           └──> Jean-Baptiste (26 July 1677 - 11 June 1734)
                x (26 August 1708) Marie-Anne Heudeline
                │
                └──> Jean-Baptiste Martin (1710 - 1750)
                └──> Marie-Élisabeth (1711 - ?)
                └──> Marianne (1712 - ?)

See also

References
  1. Dufourcq, Norbert (September 14, 1981). "Heurs et malheurs des orgues de Saint-Vivien de Rouen (Woes and misfortunes of the organs of Saint-Vivien de Rouen)". Études Normandes (in French). 30 (3): 6–25. doi:10.3406/etnor.1981.2502.
  2. "Cathédrale Notre-Dame G.O - Le Havre". orguesfrance.com (in French).
  3. Barone, J. Michael (April 26, 2017). "Historic Organs of France" (PDF). Pipedreams.
  4. "L'Orgue de Saint-Eloi". Amis de l'Orgue St Eloi (in French).
  5. "Chapelle de Charles-Nicolle".
  6. "Saint-Nicolas".
  7. "Saint-Maclou". www.rouen-histoire.com (in French).
  8. "Notice historique sur les orgues de l'Eglise Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais de Gisors" (in French).
  9. "Église (Ancienne abbatiale) Saint-Étienne, Caen, France". www.musiqueorguequebec.ca (in French).
  10. "Les Grandes-Orgues de l'Abbatiale de Montivilliers (The Grand Organs of the Abbey Church of Montivilliers)" (PDF) (in French).
  11. "Journées du Patrimoine 1995, Présentation de l'Orgue en Haute-Normandie (Heritage Days 1995, Presentation of the organ in Haute-Normandie)" (PDF) (in French).
  12. Marcel Degrutere, « Une dynastie de facteurs d'orgues rouennais: les Lefebvre (1630-1709) : Mythes et réalités », Connaissance de l'orgue, n°100, 1997
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