Pierre Cochereau | |
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| Born | Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau 9 July 1924 Saint-Mande, Val-de-Marne, France |
| Died | 6 March 1984 (aged 59) Lyon, France |
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Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau (9 July 1924 – 6 March 1984) was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.
Cochereau was titular organist of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1955 to his death in 1984 and was responsible for a controversial renovation of the cathedral's organ in the 1960s. He was greatly renowned as an improviser and organist in his lifetime and still is today.
After his death, the Conservatory of Nice was renamed in his honour.