Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame CathedralLouis Vierne (1870-1937), a student of C sar Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, was organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for 37 years, until his death at the console during a recital. Widor's successor as the organ's great French symphonist - an assessment the passage of time has proved correct - Vierne's music has remained in the repertoire of organists throughout the world, never undergoing the periodic eclipses experienced by his contemporaries. Vierne's autobiography, Mes Souvenirs, originally published serially in the 1930s, is here available in a profusely illustrated, extensively annotated English translation. Rollin Smith's Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral is the first major study of the great organist of Notre-Dame and includes chapters on his American tour, recordings, contemporary reminiscences, definitive textual corrections, the organ symphonies, his death and succession, and a thematic catalogue of his organ works. |
Contents
SaintDenisdu SaintSacrement page | 9 |
Organ of SainteClotilde | 11 |
Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles | 13 |
Henri Dallier | 14 |
The organ of the Trocadéro | 16 |
SaintLouisdesInvalides | 18 |
SaintÉtienneduMont | 20 |
César Franck at the age of sixtyseven | 23 |
The organ of SaintSéverin | 83 |
SaintSulpice | 84 |
The organ of SaintSulpice | 86 |
Widor at the organ of SaintSulpice | 88 |
SaintGermaindesPrés | 90 |
Aristide CavailléColl | 96 |
SaintSaëns at the organ of SaintSéverin | 100 |
Gigouts Appointment as Professor of Organ | 323 |
Albert Mahaut | 28 |
César Franck | 30 |
Autograph of the Final of Widors Symphonie III | 34 |
Ambroise Thomas | 38 |
SainteClotilde | 42 |
César Franck at the organ | 44 |
Francks tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery | 51 |
Lenoirs monument of Franck at the organ | 52 |
CharlesMarie Widor | 56 |
Charles Tournemire | 62 |
Anton Reicha | 64 |
Widors cartedevisite | 68 |
Bach at the organ | 70 |
CharlesMarie Widor | 72 |
JacquesNicolas Lemmens | 74 |
SaintSéverin | 78 |
Albert Périlhou | 81 |
Interior of SaintSéverin | 82 |
Louis Vierne and Marcel Dupré | 330 |
Vierne in America by William Hays | 370 |
Viernes Death and Succession | 419 |
Vierne Remembered | 435 |
Viernes Recordings | 477 |
The Organ Works | 516 |
Playing the Organ Works of Louis Vierne | 571 |
Thematic Catalogue of Viernes Organ Works | 595 |
A BioChronology of Louis Vierne page | 645 |
B Four Essays by Louis Vierne | 677 |
Organists of Paris Churches 18951937 | 713 |
E Textual Corrections for the Six Symphonies | 719 |
F Textual Corrections for the 24 Pièces de Fantaisie | 735 |
G Louis Viernes Improvisation Course by Jean Bouvard | 745 |
H Original improvisation themes by Louis Vierne | 753 |
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