Clément Loret
1833 — 1909
Clément Loret was an organist, music educator, and composer of Belgian origin, French naturalized.
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Clément Loret, born in Termonde, Belgium, in 1833, was an organist who was still living in 1889, according to the Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Vol. 2 (1889). He received his early musical training from his father and Denefve at Mons in 1846. Loret furthered his studies at the Brussels Conservatoire from 1851 to 1853, focusing on counterpoint under Fétis and organ under Lemmens. In 1855, he moved to Paris, where he served as organist at several notable institutions, including the Pantheon, Suresnes, and Notre Dame des Victoires. By 1857, he was appointed professor at Niedermeyer’s school of sacred music and also became organist at Saint-Louis d’Antin. His published works include Exercices d’orgue (1859), 24 études for organ, and 50 pièces d’orgue pour messes et vêpres, alongside a complete organ method, an oratorio titled Le Calvaire, a Mass, a symphony, and a pianoforte concerto. Loret’s influence as a teacher is also noted, as Maria Joseph Erb studied organ under him in Paris at the “Ecole de musique classique” between 1875 and 1880, as recorded in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Furthermore, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1906) mentions Loret’s contribution to scholarship with an article on the ‘Hydraulus’ in Darenberg and Saglio’s Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines (1890).