Who is Charles Marie Widor

Charles-Marie Widor: Organ Symphonies Nos. 5 & 10

Christian von Blohn graduated from the Saarbrücke more...0 points

Christian von Blohn graduated from the Saarbrücken Music Academy in Church Music and Music Teaching. He then went on to study at the Lausanne Conservatory with <b>André Luy</b> and was awarded <b>First Prize</b> for organ. Further studies with <b>Daniel Chorzempa</b> took him to the Basle Music Academy and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 1993, he has been deanery music director for the region of Saarpfalz in the diocese of Speyer.0 points

Widor: Complete Organ Works, Vol. 3

This third volume of the complete Widor organ musi more...0 points

This third volume of the complete Widor organ music contains the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies--certainly the two most popular of Widor's organ compositions. In fact, in the concluding Toccata of the Fifth Symphony, we are dealing with the most popular single piece of organ music since the Toccata and Fugue in D minor of Bach. Academics love to sneer at Widor's Toccata as a tacky potboiler of a piece. It features an incredibly catchy tune that repeats itself to the point that you can't get it out o...0 points

Charles-Marie Widor: The Symphonies for Organ Symphonie Gothique (Recent Researches in Music of the 19th &amp; Early 20th Centuries Series Vol Rrn19) by Charles-Marie Widor

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Félix Guilmand: Symphony No. 2; Charles-Marie Widor: Symphony No. 3; César Franck: Choral No. 2

The 19th century in France was a heyday of constru more...0 points

The 19th century in France was a heyday of construction for vast new churches and the massive organs that went with them; faith became a public display of allegiance to a particular set of values and a soul-stirring passionate music that went with them. It is, in a sense, unfortunate that the best known of all symphonies for organ and orchestra--the Saint-Saens No. 3--should be atypical, whimsically romantic rather than passionately austere and neoclassical like the Organ Symphonies of Guilmant....0 points

Charles-Marie Widor: Sonate op. 79, Vincent d'Indy: Sonate op. 59

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