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Louis Vierne is most known for his six organ symphonies and other works for that instrument. As the titular organist of Notre Dame de Paris, you would expect him to be familiar enough with the organ to compose as well as perform. But here we have another symphony, this written for the orchestra. Although never officially published, it has at least been performed and recorded, with the hand-enscribed copy here, copied under the composer's direction, now in the custody of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Written between his second and third symphony (the third has previously been featured on this channel), it shares some structural similarities to the symphonies of Bruckner, who was also an organist. Both composers switch between blocks of orchestra instruments, playing the same rhythm, as if they were conjoined stops on different manuals of the organ. The instrumentation featured here is mostly conventional, except that there is a second bass trombone replacing the usual tuba, and the set of four tympani is divided into two pairs, each with its own player. There is no additional percussion. The net result is a very rich, almost dark sonority. Most organ symphonies seemed to be striving to recreate the sound of the orchestra; one could say that here, Vierne was trying to use an orchestra to recreate the sound of the grand organ.

Score sourced through the International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library: [ Ссылка ]_(Vierne%2C_Louis)

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00:00 First movement
13:33 Second movement
24:57 Third movement
31:50 Fourth movement

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