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3 unusual facts about Louis Vierne


Rachel Santesso

Santesso released her debut album The Songs of Louis Vierne in 2005 after researching the composer and his unknown sacred repertoire for several years.

Louis Vierne: The Songs of Louis Verne – Rachel Santesso, soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano; Andrew Reid, organ; Hugh Webb, harp.

Tirnavia

The choir performed the Solemn Mass (for 2 organs and mixed choir) by Louis Vierne together with wellknown organist David di Fiore (USA) in October 2004.


Adrian Lucas

His first recording on the new instrument included the Julius Reubke Sonata and Louis Vierne's First Symphony.

Charles-Marie Widor

Widor had several students in Paris who were to become famous composers and organists in their own right, most notably the aforementioned Dupré, Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Darius Milhaud, Alexander Schreiner, Edgard Varèse, and the Canadian Henri Gagnon.

Helga Schauerte-Maubouet

She has been engaged by Bärenreiter to contribute to the new edition of MGG, to write on French organ music subjects in the Handbuch Orgelmusik, and to publish scholarly-critical editions of the complete organ works of Léon Boëllmann, Théodore Dubois, Louis Vierne and Jehan Alain as well as of vocal music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Isadore Freed

Following this Freed went to Berlin where he briefly studied piano with Josef Weiss, and then to Paris where he studied composition with Ernst Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Louis Vierne and Vincent d'Indy.

René Vierne

He was born at Lille in France on 11 March 1878 and was the younger brother of Louis Vierne.

Symphony

By the end of the 19th century, some French organists (e.g., Charles-Marie Widor and his students Charles Tournemire and Louis Vierne) named some of their organ compositions symphony: Their instruments (many built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll) allowed an orchestral approach (Kaye 2001; Smith 2001; Thomson 2001).


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