Background
Because of the "Great War" Pierre was sent back to Switzerland and grew up in Neûchatel.
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Pierre Pidoux
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Education
He graduated in theology in 1933 (Lausanne) and became a minister of the Eglise Libre in Winterthur.
Career
After a visit to Glasgow, he began to study the organ at the Conservatory in Geneva from 1933 to 1936. He founded and directed the Choeur J.S. Bach in Lausanne until 1948, holding at the same time an organ post in Lausanne. From 1946 to 1965 he was in charge of the hymnology course at the theology faculty of the Eglise Libre in Lausanne.
In 1964 he was given the honorary doctorate in theology by the university.
Pidoux’s activities have been devoted mostly to hymnology, musicology and teaching. He was an editor of the series Collection de Musique Protestante (from 1935) andof the sacred music series Cantate Domino.
He contributed music, harmonisations and texts to the new hymnal of the French-speaking Reformed Church of Switzerland (1976). In 1967 he co-edited the complete s of Claude Goudimel.
He composed many s for mixed choir and organization
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Nationality
Switzerland