Baerenreiter Verlag First Symphony Op. 14 (1899) - Vierne - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Organ First Symphony Op. 14 (1899) - Vierne - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Organ

Composer: Louis Vierne
Editor: Helga Schauerte-Maubouet
Format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Organ
Scoring: Organ

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) was a private student of Cesar 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.
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.
Volume I
presents the first of Vierne's six organ symphonies and is based on the first publication of the work.