Lefébure-Wély: Prayer in D Major | 1890 Puget Organ, Kincoppal-Rose Bay

Louis Lefébure-Wély was a highly esteemed French organist, whose talents were acknowledged at the age of 21 by the renowned organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, himself only 27 at the time. The two of them formed a partnership, and Lefébure-Wely mastered the new technique that perfectly suited Cavaillé-Coll’s French Romantic instruments. It is widely admitted that he was something of a showman and a dandy, and despite being awarded the Légion d’honneur by the French government, he continued to receive much