id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt h128nc60853 Kevin J. Vaughn The Organ Masses of Gaston Litaize (1909-1991): The Culmination of a Twentieth-Century Liturgical Genre 1904 .txt text/plain 367 11 29 He is remembered in particular for his long tenure as director of religious programming for French national radio, organiste titulaire at the church of Saint-François-Xavier in Paris, and professor of organ at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Saint-Maur des Fossés. Litaize's effortless facility with complex compositional devices, especially fugue and canon, also marks him as the heir to the contrapuntal tradition of organ music in France. cache/h128nc60853.txt txt/h128nc60853.txt