Organ Works III: Symphony No.3 Op.28

Vierne Organ Works III: Symphony No.3 Op.28

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) was a private student of César Franck and was appointed Titular Organist of Notre Dame de Paris in the year 1900. Numerous concert tours of Europe and the USA helped him achieve world renown. His circle of students included Marcel Dupré, whose own pupil, Thierry Escaich, has assisted with this edition.

Vierne’s compositions are masterpieces of organ music and form a central part of the instrument’s more demanding repertoire. Vierne brought the organ symphony as a genre to its peak and significantly influenced the development of organ technique worldwide. 

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.

- Includes a comprehensive critical commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)

- Foreword with details on performance practice (Fr/Eng/Ger)

- Numerous illustrations and facsimile pages