LOUIS VIERNE: Symphony in A minor, Po�me for Piano and Orchestra – EAC-FLAC-LOG

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Born blind, Louis Vierne (1870-1937) partially regained sight at age six. Obvious talent was
rewarded with piano and solf�ge 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 C�sar 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 Dupr� 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 Cavaill�-Coll) where his audience came to include such luminaries as Cl�menceau 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 — m�lodies, 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.

Music Composed by
Louis Vierne

Played by the
Orchestre Philharmonique de Li�ge

With
Francois Kerdoncuff (piano)

Conducted by
Pierre Bartholom�e

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Source: Timpani CD, 2007 (my rip!)
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Thanks! Not too familiar with this composer but Timpani Records seem to produce only quality recordings for French music lovers!

Really love their Pierne series, by the way (the solo piano one is so good but overlooked)…

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A most welcome post of a master organist!
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