Jean Costa

Jean Costa is a Organiste French born with Bastia the June 15th 1924.

Wire and grandson of organists attached to the platform of the Organ of the Basilica Saint-Jean-Baptist of Bastia, Jean Costa receives his first musical formation within his family. He continues his studies since 1943 with Lyon at Edouard Commette (organist of the primatiale Saint Jean and precursor in the recording of the music for organ) where he becomes organist - guide of the Control.

In 1945, Jean Costa goes up to Paris to follow the courses of Maurice Duruflé and Marcel Dupre. He reaches the class of organ of this last to CNSM of Paris to leave there in 1949 crowned by a First Price Organ and Improvisation jointly to Francoise Renet, Marie Madeleine Chevalier and Jean Bonfils.

After having been substitute during some time for his Master Marcel Dupres with large the organ for Saint-Sulpice in Paris, Jean Costa is named in 1952 titular organist of large the organ Cavaillé-coll of the Église Saint-Vincent-of-Paul in Paris, posts that it will occupy until 1997.

Sought pedagog, Jean Costa was professor of organ to the Academy of Nantes of 1953 to 1970 and saw himself entrusting in 1971 the class of organ of the Academy Darius Milhaud of Aix-en-Provence from which will leave many pupils such as Jean Pierre Lecaudey, Gilles Harlé or Chantal de Zeeuw who took his succession at this station in 1992.

Concert performer of international repute, guest of the principal festivals of organ, Jean Costa gave more than thousand recitals in France, in all the countries of Europe, in the USSR and in America, where it approaches all the repertory and the improvisation, disciplines where it excels.

Jean Costa carried out a hundred recordings for televisions and radios French and foreign. With the head of an important discography we can quote its recordings of the philosopher's stones of Johann Sebastian Bach, German old Masters (Buxtehude, Bruhns, Muffat, Pachelbel, etc) on historical instruments (Weingarten, Ottobeuren, Lünebourg,). Jean Costa also recorded the integrals of the Twelve parts of César Franck, of works of Johannes Brahms, like those of Franz Liszt; this last publication being worth to him in 1974 the Grand Prix of the Academy of the French Disc and the Price of the Academy Franz-Liszt of Budapest. Jean Costa took share for his last participation in the disc, with the collective recording “the organ of Paris” where he interprets two extracts of famous the Gothic Suite of Leon Boëllmann which was its predecessor with the platform of Saint-Vincent-of-Paul of 1887 to 1897.

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organists and choirmasters of the Church Saint-Vincent-of-Paul

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