Louis Vierne
Born: October 8, 1870; Poitiers, France
Died: June 2, 1937; Paris, France
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Born blind, Vierne partially regained sight at age six. Obvious talent was rewarded with piano and solfège studies, to which were added harmony, violin, and a general course when he entered the Institution National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1880. There he was befriended by César Franck who, from 1886, gave him private tuition in harmony while including Vierne in his organ class at the Paris Conservatoire. The lessons of the master were not
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(24) Pièces en stile libre, Op. 31: Carillon de Longport (1)
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(24) Pièces en stile libre, Op. 31: Divertissement (1)
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24 Pièces de Fantasie: Impromptu, Suite 3, Op. 54 (1)
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24 Pièces de Fantasie: Naïades, Suite 4, Op. 55 (1)
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24 Pièces en style libre, Op. 31/19: Berceuse (1)
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24 Pièces en style libre, Op. 31: Scherzetto (1)
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24 Pieces in Free Style: Arabesque (1)
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24 Pieces in Free Style: Carillon (1)
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24 Pieces in Free Style: Lied (1)
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Allegretto for organ in B minor, Op. 1 (1)
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Allegretto for Organ, Op. 1 (1)
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Ave Maria (1)
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Ballade du désespéré, Op. 61 (2)
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Bercreuse, for organ (1)
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Carillon de Westminster (4)
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Claire de lune, for organ, Op. 53/5 (from Piéces de Fantasie) (3)
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Communion, Op. 8 (1)
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Communion, Op. 8 (Communion) (1)
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Elevation for Organ (1)
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Eros (1)
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Final de la 1ère Symphonie, for organ (1)
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Final, for organ (1)
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Hymne au soleil, for organ (from 24 Pièces de Fantaisie), Op. 53/3 (1)
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Impromptu, for organ (1)
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Improvisations (3) for Organ (2)
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Improvisations (3) for organ: 1. Marche épiscopale (1)
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Improvisations (3) for Organ: no 1, March episcopale (3)
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Improvisations (3) for Organ: no 2, Meditation (4)
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Improvisations (3) for Organ: no 3, Cortege (2)
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Largo and Canzonetta for Oboe and Piano (1)
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Le djinns (1)
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Les angélus, Op. 57 (5)
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Les roses blanches de la lune (1)
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March of the Three Kings (2)
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Méditation (1)
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Méditation (Trois Improvisations) (1)
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Mèlodies (3), Op. 13: no 3, Extase! (1)
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Mélodies (3), Op. 18: no 1, L'heure du berger (1)
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Messe basse pour les défunts, Op. 62 (2)
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Messe basse, Op. 30 (2)
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Messe solennelle in C sharp minor, Op. 16 (7)
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Messe solennelle in C sharp minor, Op. 16: Kyrie (2)
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Messe solennelle in C sharp minor, Op. 16: no 1, Maestoso (3)
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Messe Solennelle: Gloria in Excelsis (1)
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Messe Solennelle: Sanctus and Benedictus (1)
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Motets (3) (1)
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Naïades, for organ (from Pièces de Fantaisie), Op. 55/4 (1)
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Nocturnes (3) for Piano, Op. 35 (1)
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Pièces (2) for Viola and Piano (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, for organ, Op. 31: Carillon (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31 (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: Excerpt(s) (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: Livre I (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: Livre II (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 1, Préambule (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 10, Elégie (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 11, Divertissement (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 14, Scherzetto (6)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 16, Choral (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 17, Lied (3)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 19, Berceuse (11)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 2, Cortège (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 21, Carillon (6)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 23, Epithalame (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 24, Postlude (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 3, Complainte (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 4, Epitaphe (3)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 5, Prélude (3)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 6, Arabesque (1)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 7, Méditation (2)
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Pièces (24) en style libre, Op. 31: no 9, Pastorale (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 1, Op. 51 (5)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 1, Op. 51: 2nd movement, Andantino (2)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53 (3)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53: 3rd movement, Hymne au soleil (2)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53: 5th movement, Claire de lune (15)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53: 6th movement, Toccata in B flat minor (7)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53: Excerpt(s) (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 2, Op. 53: Feux follets (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54 (4)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 1st movement, Dédicace (2)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 2nd movement, Impromptu (14)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 3rd movement, Etoile du soir (3)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 3rd movement, Phantômes (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 5th movement, Sur le Rhin (2)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 3, Op. 54: 6th movement, Carillon de Westminster (37)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55 (3)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55: 1st movement, Aubade (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55: 4th movement, Naiades (6)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55: 5th movement, Clair de lune (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55: 5th movement, Gargouilles et chimères (3)
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Pièces de fantaisie - Suite no 4, Op. 55: 6th movement, Les cloches de Hinckley (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, for organ, Suite 1, Op. 51 (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, for organ, Suite 1, Op. 51: 2. Andantino (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, for organ, Suite 1, Op. 51: 3. Cortège (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, for organ, Suite 2, Op. 53: Feux follets (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, for organ, Suite 3, Op. 54: Étoile du Soir (Evening Star) (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 2, Op. 53: No. 5, Clair de lune (1)
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Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 3, Op. 54: Carillon de Westminster (2)
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Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 3, Op. 54: Impromptu (1)
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Pièces de Fantaisie: Andantino (1)
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Pieces de Fantaisie: Clair de Lune (1)
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Pièces de Fantaisie: Quatrième Livre, Op. 55: Cathédrales (1)
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Pièces en style libre, Op. 31: Arabesque (1)
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Poème for Piano and Orchestra (1)
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Poèmes (5) de Baudelaire (1)
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Poèmes de Baudelaire, Op. 45 (1)
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Poèmes de l'amour (15), Op. 48 (2)
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Poèmes de l'amour (15), Op. 48: Set 3, Brumaire - no 10, Air retrouvé (1)
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Poèmes de l'amour (15), Op. 48: Set 3, Brumaire - no 11, Le bateau noir (1)
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Poèmes de l'amour (15), Op. 48: Set 3, Brumaire - no 8, Sonnet d'automne (1)
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Poèmes de l'amour (15), Op. 48: Set 3, Brumaire - no 9, Les sorcières (1)
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Poèmes Grecs (4) (1)
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Poèmes grecs, Op. 60 (1)
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Prélude funèbre in E minor, Op. 4 (1)
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Prelude in F minor for Organ (1)
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Preludes (12) for Piano, Op. 38 (1)
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Psyché, Op. 33 (2)
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Quartet for Strings, Op. 12 (2)
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Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello & piano in C minor, Op 42 (1)
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Quintet for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 42 (3)
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Rhapsody for Harp (1)
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Soirs étrangers, Op. 56 (1)
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Sonata for Cello and Piano in B minor, Op. 27 (4)
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Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 27 (1)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 (1)
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Spleens et détresses (1)
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Spleens et détresses, Op. 38 (1)
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Spleens et détresses, Op. 38: no 10, Marine (1)
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Spleens et détresses, Op. 38: no 5, A une femme (1)
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Spleens et détresses, Op. 38: no 7, Le son de cor (1)
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Stances d'amour et de rêve (5), Op. 29 (1)
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Stèle pour un enfant défunt (Triptyque, Op. 58) (1)
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String Quartet, Op. 12 (1)
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Suite for Viola and Piano (1)
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Sur le Rhin (Pièces de Fantasie, Op. 54) (1)
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Symphonie 1: Final (2)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14 (6)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 1st movement, Prelude (2)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 2nd movement, Fugue (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 3rd movement, Pastorale (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 4th movement, Allegro vivace (5)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 5th movement, Andante (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 6th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 1 in D minor, Op. 14: 6th movement, Finale (13)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20 (7)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: 1st movement, Allegro (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: 2nd movement, Allegro (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: 3rd movement, Scherzo (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: 4th movement, Cantabile (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: 5th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 2 in E minor, Op. 20: Excerpt(s) (2)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F minor, Op. 28 (7)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: 1st movement, Allegro maestoso (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: 2nd movement, Cantilène (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: 3rd movement, Intermezzo (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: 4th movement, Adagio (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: 5th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Adagio and Finale (5)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32 (4)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: 1st movement, Prélude (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: 2nd movement, Allegro (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: 3rd movement, Menuet (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: 4th movement, Romance (2)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: 5th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 4 in G minor, Op. 32: Romance (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in A minor, Op. 47 (5)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 1st movement, Grave (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 2nd movement, Allegro molto (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 3rd movement, Scherzo (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 4th movement, Larghetto (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 5th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 28: 1st movement, Introduction et allegro (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 28: 2nd movement, Aria (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 28: 3rd movement, Scherzo (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 28: 4th movement, Adagio (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 28: 5th movement, Final (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 59 (6)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 59: 3rd movement, Scherzo (1)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 59: 5th movement, Allegro molto (2)
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Symphony for Organ no 6 in B minor, Op. 59: Finale (2)
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Symphony in A minor (1)
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Symphony No. 1 for organ in D minor, Op. 14 (2)
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Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 14: Finale (2)
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Symphony No. 2 for organ in E minor, Op. 20 (1)
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Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 20: Scherzo (1)
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Symphony No. 2 in E minor: 3. Scherzo (1)
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Symphony No. 3 for organ in F sharp minor, Op. 28 (2)
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Symphony No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Adagio (2)
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Symphony No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Allegro Maestoso (1)
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Symphony No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Cantilène (1)
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Symphony No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Final (1)
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Symphony No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 28: Intermezzo (1)
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Symphony No. 4 for organ in G minor, Op. 32 (1)
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Symphony No. 5 for organ in A minor, Op. 47 (1)
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Symphony No. 6 for organ in B minor, Op. 59 (1)
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Tantum ergo (2)
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Third Organ Symphony, Op. 28: Adagio (1)
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Toccata for organ in B flat minor (1)
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Triptique for organ, Op. 58: Communion (1)
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Triptyque, Op. 58 (2)
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Triptyque, Op. 58: 2nd movement, Communion (1)
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Triptyque, Op. 58: 3rd movement, Stèle pour un enfant défunt (2)
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Trois Improvisations: Marche épiscopale (1)
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Verset fugué sur "In exitu Israël" (1)
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Biography |
by Adrian Corleonis
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| Born blind, Vierne partially regained sight at age six. Obvious talent was rewarded with piano and solfège studies, to which were added harmony, violin, and a general course when he entered the Institution National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris in 1880. There he was befriended by César Franck who, from 1886, gave him private tuition in harmony while including Vierne in his organ class at the Paris Conservatoire. The lessons of the master were not lost on him -- Franck possessed perhaps the richest harmonic palette in Western music and Vierne effortlessly absorbed many of its features. Vierne entered the Conservatoire as a full-time student in 1890. Franck died in November, succeeded by Charles-Marie Widor as professor of organ. Vierne soon became Widor's assistant, a post he continued to hold under Guilmant -- where he taught Dupré and Nadia Boulanger -- and deputized for Widor at St. Sulpice. Vierne took the Conservatoire's first prize for organ in 1894, though his career waited until 1900 to be spectacularly launched when, on May 21, he triumphed over four other organists in a competition for the prestigious post of titular organist at Notre Dame de Paris (its magnificent instrument reconditioned by Cavaillé-Coll) where his audience came to include such luminaries as Clémenceau and Rodin. The Symphony No. 1 for organ (1898-1899) forecasts the succession of moods -- grand and assertively virile, searchingly contrapuntal, effusive, and distressingly confessional -- which would deepen anguishingly in succeeding works, reflecting an unhappy marriage and divorce, professional disappointments, the loss of a son and a brother in the Great War, and a continual battle to retain minimal sight. After being passed over for professorship of the Conservatoire's organ class in 1911, Vierne taught at the Schola Cantorum. His Symphony No. 2 for organ, completed in 1903, drew from no less a critic than Debussy the stunning accolade, "M. Vierne's symphony is truly remarkable. It combines rich musicality with ingenious discoveries in the special sonority of the organ. J.S. Bach, the father of us all, would have been well pleased...." The spate of disturbingly eloquent compositions -- mélodies, piano pieces, chamber works, mass settings, the Symphony in A, and numerous works for organ (including, at last, six symphonies) -- continued to pour forth until his death. Concert tours took him to England in 1924 and 1925, and on to a three-month visit to the U.S. and Canada in 1927. Vierne died of a heart attack at the organ of Notre Dame during a public concert on June 2, 1937. |
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