lasted from January through March 1956, and saw him play on both coasts. Langlais died in the 15th arrondissement of Paris at the age of 84, and was survived by his second wife Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais and three children, Janine, Claude and Caroline. The position of organist at Sainte-Clotilde was succeeded to by Jacques Taddei. Music Langlais was a prolific composer, composing 254 works with opus numbers, the first of which was his Prelude and Fugue for organ (1927), and the last his Trio (1990), another organ piece. Although best known as a composer of organ music and sacred choral music, he also composed a number of instrumental, orchestral and chamber works and some secular song settings. Langlais' music is written in a highly individual eclectic style, venturing well beyond what might be expected of mid-twentieth-century French music, with rich and complex harmonies and overlapping modes, sometimes more tonal than his contemporary, friend and countryman Olivier Messiaen, sometimes related to his two predecessors at Sainte-Clotilde, Franck and Tournemire, but sometimes also employing serial techniques and often exhibiting an earthy, Celtic folkiness which owes not a little to Bartok: "" as one early reviewer wrote. His best-known works include his four-part masses, Messe solennelle and Missa Salve Regina, his Missa in simplicitate for unison voice and organ, and his many organ compositions, including: Hymne d'actions de grâces from Three Gregorian Paraphrases La nativité and Les rameaux (The Palms) (Poèmes Evangeliques) Chant héroïque, Chant de paix, and De profundis from Nine Pieces Kyrie "Orbis factor" from Livre œcuménique Incantation pour un jour saint (Incantation for Easter) Cantilene (Suite brève) Suite médiévale Folkloric Suite Trois méditations sur la Sainte Trinité Fête, Op. 51 24 Pieces for harmonium or organ, Op. 6 Hommage a Frescobaldi Discography Albums Langlais joue Langlais, 1976 Missa Salve Regina; Messe solennelle, (English Chamber Orchestra Brass Ensemble; The Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill), 1988 Jean Langlais Live, St. Augustin, Wien, 1993 Organ works (Kevin Bowyer), 1994 Messe solennelle - Missa in Simplicitate - Missa Misericordiae Domini - Ensemble Vocal Jean Sourisse, dir. Jean Sourisse, 1996 Suite Médiévale / Cinq Méditations sur l'Apocalypse, 1996 The complete organ works of César Franck on the organ of the Basilica of Sainte Clotilde, Paris (1963) [2 CD], 1996 Chants de Bretagne [Andréa Ar Gouilh voix - Jacques Kauffmann, orgue, Orgue Cavaillé-Coll de Saint-Servan], 1997 Musique de chambre avec piano, 2001 Un centenaire (George Baker, organ),