2025-02-18/2025-02-18 - (b Saint Julien-sur-Suran, Jura, 7 April 1861; d Paris, 29 May 1931). French organ builder. Mutin lost his father, an innkeeper, before he was three, and his mother took him and his two sisters to Paris after the Franco-Prussian War, where he was apprenticed to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll from 1875. His benefactor there, the voicer Joseph Koenig, later became his brother-in-law. Assignments in Normandy, where he married, led Mutin to set up shop in Falaise, where he built his first organ in 1887, then in Caen. On June 18, 1898, the contract was signed with Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Charles Mutin became the owner and manager of the Manufacture de Grandes-Orgues Cavaillé-Coll. -- Organs of Paris web page -Paul R. Marchesano
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