Roger Boucher
Roger Boucher was a French organist and composer.Biography
Entered at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1901, Roger Boucher won a 2nd prize in harmony in 1906, a 1st prize in piano accompaniment in 1907, 1st prize of counterpoint in 1909, 1st prize in music composition in 1909, 1st prize in organ in 1910, and 1st prize in fugue in 1910.
Roger Boucher was successively organist at Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile,, in Argenteuil basilica, then titular of the grand organ of the Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris church, from 1910 to his death.
He died as a result of war injuries at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital.
Louis Vierne dedicated to him the Pastorale of the second book of the Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre for organ Op. 31.Scores
