Guilmant, (Félix) Alexandre (1837-1911)

French organist and composer. He toured widely with great success and was professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, which he had helped Charles Bordes and Vincent d'Indy to found, and at the Paris Conservatory.

He was a pupil of his father, an organist at Boulogne, where he afterwards held several church appointments, studying briefly in Brussels with Jaak Lemmens in 1860 and moving to Paris in 1871, where he was organist at the Trinité Church until 1901.

Works two symphonies for organ and orchestra; eight sonatas and 25 sets of pieces for organ, organ music for church use.