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Thomas Babou was a composer and organist who lived and worked in Liège. Unfortunately we know very little about him. He was organist at the Collégiale Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste de Liège, at least from 1687 until 1726. Thanks to his son Jean-François-Pascal Babou many pieces of father Thomas survived. Babou's music contain French and Italian influences.

I love playing Babou's compositions from the extensive edition of keyboard pieces, edited by Pierre Gouin. Especially on an instrument like this Silbermann/Metzler organ, it really comes to life. Babou's compositions mostly aren't very complex, but especially melodically very beautiful.