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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
On July 14, 1880, I gave an organ performance at the Brussels Conservatory on the Cavaillé-Coll organ that had just been built. To enhance the new hall, the Duke de Caraman-Chimay, director of the Beaux-Arts in Brussels and a friend of François-Auguste Gevaert, had ordered an organ from Cavaillé and asked me to come and inaugurate it. It is an excellent instrument. I had the opportunity to hear it again last year [1935] when a festival was given there in my honor, during which I was presented with the plaque of the royal crown (Grand cordon of the crown?). At the time of the organ's inauguration, Gevaert was director of the Brussels Conservatory. I spent three delightful days with dinners at the home of the minister of the Beaux-Arts, and a dinner that Gevaert gave for us at the “Bois de la Cambre.”
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