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Achille
Bragers, native of Belgium, educated in Antwerp, immigrant to New York City, organist, composer, part-founder and teacher at
the famed Pius X School of Liturgical Music…
Though modest, unassuming and not usually a household name associated with the American Liturgical
Movement, nonetheless
Achille Bragers was an important component of the promotion of the restoration of sacred music, particularly of Gregorian chant.
Taking a life-time of work to complete, Bragers composed his organ accompaniment series to help implement Pope St. Pius X’s
motu proprio on the reform of sacred music (Tra le Sollecitudini, 1903).
His series (published over the course of many years) was well received, considered to be definitive and preferred by organists to the earlier series by
Henri Potiron.
Long out of print, now Bragers’ great work of liturgical love can belong
to every church organist.
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