page_title: Raphaël Fumet
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Raphaël Fumet / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Raphaël Fumet à l'orgue.
context_page_description: Raphaël Marie Paul Fumet was a 20th-century French composer and organist.
context_section_description: Born in Juilly (Seine-et-Marne), the son of composer Dynam-Victor Fumet (a student with César Franck, 1867–1949), brother of writer Stanislas Fumet, father of flautist Gabriel Fumet, Raphaël Fumet showed exceptional talent as a pianist and improviser at an early age.
  In parallel to his studies of musical composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris, he was employed in many Parisian cinemas where his extraordinary facilities allowed him to improvise directly on the organ on the images of silent films of that time. His charisma as a musician earned him the friendship of many artists, mainly in Montparnasse; he was especially connected with painters and sculptors as yet unknown as Soutine, Modigliani, Jeannette Hébuterne, Juan Gris, Joseph Bernard…
  Raphaël Fumet, who was very independent by nature and naturally had little incentive to confront the sectarianism exacerbated by the aesthetic quarrels of his time, withdrew first to the countryside in the famous College of Juilly in Seine-et-Marne where he remained ten years as Maître de chapelle. During the 1940 debacle, he left Jully with his family and moved to Angers where he became professor of piano and harmony at the conservatory, as well as organist at St. Joseph's Church, continuing his father's work in almost complete isolation.
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