Louis Vierne - Piano Works
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Label: Syrius
Cat No: SYR141448
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 30th March 2015
Contents
Works
Nocturnes (3), op.34Poemes Grecs (4), op.60
Suite bourguignonne, op.17
Artists
Jean Dube (piano)Works
Nocturnes (3), op.34Poemes Grecs (4), op.60
Suite bourguignonne, op.17
Artists
Jean Dube (piano)About
Louis Vierne, who was born in Poitiers on 8th October 1870 and died in Paris on 2nd June 1937, will go down to posterity mainly as an organist, whereas he could have made a name for himself in every domain with the sole exception of the theatre.
In 1880, he heard Franck for the first time at St Clotilde, and was later accepted by him as a private pupil. While at the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles (Institute for young blind children) he studied the piano and organ, and the violin as well, which was to the benefit of his chamber music. In 1890, the year Franck died, he entered the Conservatoire (organ class), getting the first prize in 1894. In 1892 he became the deputy of his master Charles-Marie Widor at St Sulpice, and in 1900 was nominated in a competitive examination, in front of fifty other candidates, titular in Notre Dame. His deputy was Marcel Dupré. In 1912 he was in charge of an organ class at the Schola Cantorum.
It was during his 1750th concert, when he had just played 'Tombstone for a dead child', the third piece of his Triptych opus 58 from 1929-1931, while he was just about to improvise on the Alma Redemptoris Mater, and sitting beside his disciple Maurice Duruflé, that he was struck down in the organ loft of Notre Dame by a cardiac embolism.
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