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Béringer de Miramon Fitz-James
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Béringer de Miramon Fitz-James

Échenoz-la-Méline, France, 7 March 1875 - 28 January 1952
BiographyBirth March 7 , 1875, Vesoul
Death January 28, 1952 (at 76 years old)
Nationality French
Activity Organist

Bérenger de Miramon Fitz-James (Count Bérenger Axel René of Cassaigne de Beaufort de Miramon), born March 7, 1875 in Échenoz-la-Méline ( Vesoul ) in the Haute-Saône , died January 28, 1952 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, is an organ lover, musicographer and French patron .

Biography
When he was born, his father belonged to Vesoul's garrison as captain. He studied at Stanislas College in Paris and then at Saint Joseph's College in Avignon . After passing through the Military School of Saint-Maixent, he is garrisoned in Aix-en-Provence and Compiegne . He leaves the military career soon after.

In 1907, he married Jacqueline Normand (1884-1968), daughter of the poet and writer Jacques Normand . He went to the front in 1914 as a lieutenant and became battalion commander at the end of the war and knighted the Legion of Honor . On May 25, 1927 he was adopted by his uncle Jacques de Fitz-James, 9 th Duke of Fitz-James.

Co-founder of the Friends of the Organ with Norbert Dufourcq in 1926, he had a salon organ built by the Victor Gonzalez . In the 1930s, he organized organ promotion events, notably in Lyon with the help of Maurice Duruflé , Jean Bouvard, Marcel Péhu and Adrien Rougier 1 . He is a member of the Academy of Marseille (Fine Arts section) which he became director in 1943.

Works
Paganini in Marseille
Study on Franz Liszt and the Divine Comedy
Studies on Emmanuel Chabrier
Play: "In the land of song" with music by Marcel Tournier

Biography, translated from French, accessed 14 December 2018
Person TypeIndividual
Last Updated8/7/24