Mercer University has acquired and has dedicated a new organ for the organ teaching studio in McCorkle Hall, Townsend School of Music. The instrument, the Giuseppe Englert Memorial Organ, was originally built by Victor Gonzalez in 1953 in Paris. Its home for 59 years was the salon in the apartment on the Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg (in full view of the impressive gold-leaf dome of Les Invalides, where one finds the tomb of Napoléon) of Giuseppe Englert and his wife, Jacqueline Englert-Marchal, the daughter of celebrated blind French organist André Marchal.
