Charles Piroye

French organ & harpsichord player and composer. (c. 1668-1672 – c. 1730) Very little is known about his life, and even the dates of his birth and death have not yet been determined. From 1690 to 1712 Piroye was organist of the Jacobins Church at Rue St. Jacques, and from 1708 to 1712 organist at Saint-Honoré. Piroye's organ works from Pièces choisies (Paris, 1712) cover much more ground than the French organ school tradition of the period. Most of his works are not fugues, hymn settings, trios, etc., but dialogues between different choirs of the organ. They all have descriptive titles: La Béatitude, La Paix, L'Allégresse, L'Immortelle, La Brillante, La Royal. On the title page, he describes himself as "PROFESSEUR DE MUSIQUE & Organiste à Paris".