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Louis Vierne (1870-1937), a student of César Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, was organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for 37 years, until his death at the console during a recital. Widor's successor as the organ's great French symphonist - an assessment the passage of time has proved correct - Vierne's music has remained in the repertoire of organists throughout the world, never undergoing the periodic eclipses experienced by his contemporaries. Vierne's autobiography, Mes Souvenirs, originally published serially in the 1930s, is here available in a profusely illustrated, extensively annotated English translation. Rollin Smith's Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral is the first major study of the great organist of Notre-Dame and includes chapters on his American tour, recordings, contemporary reminiscences, definitive textual corrections, the organ symphonies, his death and succession, and a thematic catalogue of his organ works.

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Of special note are the chapters dedicated to his American tour
The Max B. Miller Book Award was created by The American Guild of Organists for the specific purpose of honoring works of seminal and academic importance in the field of organ literature, history, and performance. Academician and music historian Rollin Smith has won this prestigious award for "Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral", a comprehensive and seminal history of Notre-Dame Cathedral organist Louis Vierne (1870-1937) who served in that capacity for 37 years. A dedicated organist, Vierne was to die still at his console, leaving behind an impressive legacy of performances and catalogue of organ works. Of special note are the chapters dedicated to his American tour. Enhanced with informative and insightful contemporary anecdotal stories by those who worked with him, as well as others who were to be influenced by him, "Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral" is especially recommended as a core addition to academic library Music History reference collections in general, and the supplemental reading lists for dedicated students of the organ in particular.

Vierne and the world of French romantic organ music
A fascinating account of both the struggles of this blind organist as well as the French organ school at the turn of the nineteenth century. This exhaustive chronicle of the life and music of Vierne includes autobiographical details on how he overcame his infirmities and performance anxiety to become one of the most outstanding French organists and composers of all time.There are some remarkable insights into his method of improvizing, and the study interweaves his career with those of his teachers Franck and Widor, as well as pupils Dupre and others. The deep tragedies of losing a brother and son in WWI are described, and his dramatic death at the console of the Notre Dame organ. Organists will appreciate the performance notes on most of Vierne's own works, plus a measure by measure analysis of his interpretation of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor. A very readable format features autobiographical narrative on right hand pages, with notes and photographs on the left.Overall, paints a portrait of a very sensitive, intelligent composer, and heightens one's appreciation for the richness of his music.

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This is the most complete book on Vierne to date.Highly recommended.The majority of the book is Vierne's own Memoirs translated into english.The remainder constists of some analization of the organ works, textualcorrections of the symphonies, improvisation themes written by Vierne, etc. Most complete, and a fanscinating read as well as being highly useful.Noorganist should be without a copy! ... Read more

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Level: Advanced organ solo. Carillon de Westminster, Opus 54, is a piece written for organ by French composer and organist Louis Vierne. It constitutes the sixth piece in the third suite of Vierne's four-suite set 24 pieces de fantaisie, first published in 1927. Carillon de Westminster is in the key of D major, and is in compound triple time. Origin and Inspiration: As indicated by the title, Carillon de Westminster is a fantasia on the Westminster chimes, played from the Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster, since 1858. The chimes play four notes in the key of E major, G#, F#, E, and B in various patterns every fifteen minutes. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michel Foucault, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Louis Vierne, Brian Joubert, Joël Robuchon, Jean-Pierre Abelin, Lionel Charbonnier, Abel Bonnard, Catherine Guy-Quint, Arthur Ranc, Simon Hébras, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Romain Vincelot, Elme Marie Caro, Elsa N'guessan, André Strohl, Christian Penigaud, Countess Dash. Excerpt:Abel Bonnard (December 19, 1883 May 31, 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Biography Born in Poitiers , Vienne , his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris . A student of literature, he was a graduate of the École du Louvre and a member of the École Française de Rome . Politically, a follower of Charles Maurras , his views evolved towards fascism in the 1930s. Bonnard was one of the ministers of National Education under the Vichy regime (1942-44). The political satirist Jean Galtier-Boissière gave him the nickname "la Gestapette", a portmanteau of Gestapo and tapette , the latter French slang for a homosexual . The name, along with the homosexual inclinations it implied, became well known. Bonnard was one of only two members expelled from the Académie Française after World War II for collaboration with Germany. (The other was the elderly writer Abel Hermant .) Bonnard was condemned in absentia to death during the épuration légale period for wartime activities. However, Francisco Franco granted him political asylum in Spain . In 1960, he returned to France to face retrial for his crimes. He received a symbolic sentence of 10 years banishment to be counted from 1945, but dissatisfied with the verdict of guilty, he chose to return to Spain where he lived out the remainder of his life. Bibliography References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) Preceded by Charles Le Goffic : Seat 12 Académie Française ... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Pierre Cochereau, Louis Vierne, Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier, Claude Balbastre, Armand-Louis Couperin, Louis-Claude Daquin, Olivier Latry, Léonce de Saint-Martin, Pierre-Claude Foucquet, Yves Devernay, Charles Racquet, Jean-Pierre Leguay, Guillaume-Antoine Calvière, Nicolas Séjan, Arnoul Greban, Philippe Lefebvre, Pierre-Louis Couperin, Pierre Chabanceau de La Barre, Gervais-François Couperin, Claude-Étienne Luce, Eugène Sergent, Jean Racquet, Jehan Regnault, Félix Danjou, Guillaume Maingot, Jehan Campana, Médéric Corneille, Jehan Bailly, Claude Chabanceau de La Barre, Charles Thibault, Antoine Desprez, Jacques Petitjean, René Drouard Du Bousset, François Lacodre Dit Blin, Joseph Pollet, Jacques le Mol, Henry Berenger, Loys Regnault, Pierre Mouton, Jehan Hannyn, Jehan Peu, Jean Sogard, Jehan Perrenet, Jean D'oisy, Henri de Saxe, Renaud de Reims, Jean de Bruges. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau, né à Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne) le 9 juillet 1924 et mort le 5 mars 1984 à Lyon, était un organiste, un improvisateur, un pédagogue et compositeur français. Pierre Cochereau choisit la musique après ses études secondaires et entre au Conservatoire de Paris où il reçoit l'enseignement de Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé et Noël Gallon. Il y obtient les premiers prix d'orgue, d'harmonie, d'écriture et d'histoire de la musique. Dès 1942, il est titulaire de l'orgue de Saint-Roch et devient en 1955 titulaire des grandes orgues de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Il fera de cette tribune parmi les plus célèbres, un lieu d'accueil pour les organistes du monde entier auxquels il cédera ses claviers tous les dimanches après-midi pour des auditions d'une heure au cours desquel...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Johann Pachelbel, Louis Vierne, Marcel Dupré, Charles Tournemire, John Blow, Pierre Cochereau, Giovanni Legrenzi, Rolande Falcinelli, Herbert Sumsion, Naji Hakim, Jean Guillou, César Franck, David Briggs, Martin Peerson, Jean Titelouze, Basil Harwood, Herbert Howells, Thomas Armstrong, David Willcocks, Zsigmond Szathmáry, Stanley Vann, Thomas Weelkes, Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Daniel Roth, Claudio Merulo, Paul Callaway, Wallace Michael Ross, André Fleury, John Sanders, William Mckie, John Stainer, Walford Davies, George Guest, Käte Van Tricht, John Reading (Composer, Organist and Copyist), Edward Norman Hay, Ralph Downes, Richard Wayne Dirksen, Paul Hofhaimer, Adrian Batten, Jacques Brunel, John Rose, Edward Bairstow, Hendrik Andriessen, Percy Whitlock, Ian Tracey, Robert Ashfield, Douglas Major, Louis-Claude Daquin, Allan Wicks, Maurice Greene, Jeremiah Clarke, Jean Langlais, George Malcolm, Girolamo Diruta, Harrison Oxley, Thomas Attwood, Kerry Beaumont, Stephen Farr, John Goss, Adrian Lucas, Sarah Baldock, Arthur Wills, Juan Bautista Cabanilles, Katherine Dienes, Stephen Cleobury, Michael Howard, Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, Simon Preston, Richard Runciman Terry, Krzysztof Czerwiński, Francis Jackson, Max Kenworthy, James Nares, Peter Hurford, H. Hugh Bancroft, Vincenzo Bellavere, Alan Thurlow, Mark Wardell, David Hill, John Birch, Malcolm Archer, Douglas Guest, Richard Apperley, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Timothy Byram-Wigfield, Samuel Myerscough, John Scott, Olivier Latry, Thomas Greatorex, Barnabas Gunn, John Scott Whiteley, Andrew Parnell, John Redford, John Clarke Whitfield, Antonio Squarcialupi, Christopher Tye, Philip Moore, T. Tertius Noble, Paolo Bellasio, Willis Grant, Elfrida Andrée, David Lumsden, Sydney Nicholson, Ernest Bullock, Harry Gabb, Clive Driskill-Sm...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60587 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Olivier Messiaen, Charles-Marie Widor, Rolande Falcinelli, Louis Vierne, César Franck, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, François-Joseph Fétis, Gabriel Fauré, Paul Tortelier, Nadia Boulanger, Charles Tournemire, André Jolivet, François Adrien Boieldieu, Alain Bernaud, Charles Münch, Jules Massenet, François Jeanneau, Alexandre Guilmant, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Riccardo Del Fra, Maurice Emmanuel, Ambroise Thomas, Paul Dukas, Rodolphe Kreutzer, André Hekking, Martin Marsick, Yvonne Loriod, Ernest Boulanger, Léo Delibes, Maurice André, Eugène Gigout, Alfred Desenclos, Olivier Latry, Ernest Guiraud, Théodore Dubois, Henri Büsser, Henri Rabaud, Jean-Paul Céléa, Gabriel Grovlez, André Gedalge, Michel Bouvard, Georges Barboteu, Paul Vidal, Xavier Leroux, Noël Gallon, Gérard Hekking, Jean Gallon, Claude Delangle, Luis Naón,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (* 10. Dezember 1908 in Avignon; † 27. April 1992 in Paris) war ein französischer Komponist, Kompositionslehrer und Organist. Olivier Messiaen wurde in einer literarisch geprägten Familie in Avignon geboren. Er hatte einen jüngeren Bruder, Alain. Sein Vater Pierre Messiaen war Englischprofessor und arbeitete ab 1919 über drei Jahrzehnte lang an einer Übersetzung der Werke von William Shakespeare, ein Umstand, der den jungen Olivier maßgeblich beeinflusste. Als Jugendlicher las er Shakespeare in der Übersetzung von Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut. Die Schilderung menschlicher Leidenschaften sowie die von Fabelwesen, Hexen und Gespenstern bevölkerte märchenhaft magische Welt Shakespeares faszinierten ihn. „Ich orientierte mich an Märchen, und Shakespeare ist manchma...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=50752 ... Read more

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French organist and composer Louis Vierne (1870—1937), a student of Franck and Widor, wrote numerous works for organ. This volume contains three of his six Organ Symphonies, notable for brilliant effectiveness, lyricism and harmonic originality. This durable attractive edition also includes a glossary of French terms used in these scores and specifications of the organs on which the Symphonies were premiered. Reproduced from authoritative French editions.
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