Grigny Nicolas de, *before 8 September 1672 Saint-Pierre-le-Vieil (near Reims), †30 November 1703 Reims, French organist and composer. He came from a family of musicians; he studied with N. A. Lebègue. In 1693–95 he was organist at the Abbey of Saint-Denis in Paris; from 1696 until his death, he lived in Reims. For many years he played the organ in the cathedral, and in 1702 also in the church of Saint-Symphorien. He wrote exclusively small polyphonic organ works, including contrapuntal settings of versets from the sections of the Ordinarium and Proprium Missae as well as hymns, collected in Premier livre d’orgue… (published in Paris 1699 by P. A. Mercier, 2nd edition 1711 by C. Ballard).
Literature: N. Dufourcq La musique d’orgue française de J. Titelouze à J. Alain, Paris 1941, 2nd ed. 1949; W. J. Maul The Organ Works of Nicolas de Grigny, dissertation, Washington 1966; G. Frotscher Geschichte des Orgelspiels und der Orgelkomposition, Berlin 1936, 3rd ed. 1966.
Nicolas de Grigny Livre d’orgue, ed. A. Guilmant and A. Pirro, in: Archives des maîtres de l’orgue, vol. 5, Mainz 1904, repr. Paris 1972, ed. also by N. Dufourcq and N. Pierront, Paris 1953
4 works ed. F. Raugel in: Les Maîtres français de l’Orgue, Paris 1933, 2nd ed. 1949
