Born in
Briare, son and grandson of organists, Henri Nibelle attended the
école Niedermeyer as early as 1898, before entering the
Conservatoire de Paris, where in 1906 he won a
first prize on
fugue in the class of
Fauré and a 1st accessit of organ in 1910 in the class of
Guilmant. At the École Niedermeyer, Henri Nibelle was a student of
Henri Büsser, with
Maurice Le Boucher, Defosse,
Roger Pénau. He also studied with
Louis Vierne who dedicated to him
Caprice, the third of the
Pièces de Fantaisie for organ Op. 51. He began his career as an organist on the choir organ of the
Versailles Cathedral in 1907. Two years later, he was appointed titular of the
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, then became organist at the Grand Organ of in 1912, and succeeded Isidore Massuelle as
maître de chapelle of this same church in 1931. Having become almost blind, he left Saint-François-de-Sales in 1959 to retire to Nice and dedicate himself to the composition of religious works: short masses, solemn masses, psalms,
motets, spiritual hymns, etc. Nibelle died in
Nice on 18 November 1967 aged 84. == Works ==