Vierne: Complete Organ Works, Vol. III

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) was a pupil of César Franck. He deputised for Charles-Marie Widor at St.-Sulpice (Paris) from 1892 onwards, before being appointed titulaire organist at Notre-Dame (Paris).

Vierne’s organ compositions are masterpieces of organ music and form an integral part of the virtuoso organ repertoire. In particular, Vierne raised the form of the organ symphony to new heights and influenced the development of organ technique worldwide. His musical language was influenced to a large extent by his teacher César Franck; there are also compositional elements of Claude Debussy.

Vierne’s Third Symphony is frequently regarded as his masterwork. It marks an expansion of his harmonic language. The present Urtext edition of the Third Symphony represents one of the composer’s versions, established through a comparative analysis of the autograph and first printed edition.

Vorwort
Louis Vierne - Biographische Übersicht
Zur Entstehung der Werkausgaben:
Vom Autograph zur Erstausgabe
Die Erstausgabe von 1912
Nachdrucke und posthume Korrekturlisten
Von den Quellen zur Urtextausgabe
Zur Entstehung der dritten Symphonie
Hinweise zu Notation und Interpretation
Faksimilia:
Allegro maestoso (Autograph, Seite 1)
Allegro maestoso (Autograph, Seite 7)
Adagio (Autograph, Seite 9)
3ième Symphonie op. 28 (1911):
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Cantilène
III. Intermezzo
IV. Adagio
V. Final
Kritischer Bericht:
I. Abkürzungen
II. Zur Editionstechnik
III. Quellen
IV. Einzelnachweise
Bibliographie