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53 LOUIS THIRY You attended Rolande Falcinelli’s organ class, of course, but also the harmony and counterpoint classes. Especially with Simone Plé-Caussade, an amazing personality! She had a very lively and energetic style of playing. She analysed The Well-Tempered Clavier , rhapsodising over the fact that Bach had taken so many liberties with the scholastic fugue . . . in fact, with rules that did not yet exist! It was incredible. In a sense, she taught us admiration. Forme, the Conservatoirewas above all ameeting place: my classmateswere people like Xavier Darasse, Jean-Claude Henry and Claude Terrasse. I have the impression that I learned much more from friends than from teachers . . . There was such a diversity of views and interests! One of the advantages was that we oftenwent to concerts, all kinds of concerts: opera, piano, orchestra, organ of course. That said, after a while, you want to leave and continue your training alone. It’s finally through personal reflection that we learn the most.