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The 3/info/organ" target="_blank">Organ 3/info/symphony" target="_blank">Symphony No. 3 (Troisième symphonie pour grand orgue) in F-sharp minor, Op. 28, is an 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ 3/info/symphony" target="_blank">symphony by Louis Vierne. He composed it in 1911, and it was first performed in March 1912. It was first published by Éditions Durand the same year. It has been described as the most inspired and best structured of his six 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ symphonies.




History


Vierne, organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, continued the French tradition of secular 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ symphonies, such as the works by his teacher Charles-Marie Widor, who had established the 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ as a concert instrument. Widor was inspired by the organs built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
Vierne composed the third 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ 3/info/symphony" target="_blank">symphony in 1911,: 7  beginning on 18 March. He completed it on 14 September during summer vacation which he spent with the family of Marcel Dupré in Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Normandy. He dedicated it to Dupré, who played the world premiere at the Salle Gaveau of Paris in March 1912.: 7  It was first published by Éditions Durand that year. Carus-Verlag published a critical edition of the complete 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ works by Vierne in 2007, edited by Jon Laukvik and David Sanger.




Structure and music


The work is structured in five movements:

Allegro maestoso
Cantilène
Intermezzo
Adagio
Final
The first movement begins with "an aggressive call to arms" in "jagged rhythmic edges" which dominate the movement in sonata form. The rhythm is reminiscent of the French overture: 7  with a more lyrical second subject, skillfully combined with the first in the development section, with significant chromaticism.: 8 
The second movement is soft in contrast, with long melodic hautbois phrases. The third movement has scherzo character in a triple metre, which can be seen as grotesque or playful. A second theme comes with a pizzicato bass.: 8  The fourth movement is marked "Quasi largo", and is homophonic and soft like the second, but using chromaticism reminiscent of Wagner. A "declamatory melody" in a middle section seems endless. When the opening theme returns, it is developed further. Vierne adapted this movement in his Piece symphonique for 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ and orchestra in 1926, in preparation of a U.S. concert tour.: 8 
The Final features typical elements of a French toccata, such as fast ostinato passages for the manuals versus a slow melody in the bass, but also uses counterpoint. It is again in sonata form, with an augmented bass in the development, and culminates in a coda with virtuoso pedal.: 8 




Recordings


Bruno Mathieu, 1996
Jeremy Filsell, 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ of Abbaye de Saint-Ouen, Rouen, 2005
David Briggs, 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ of Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, 2008
Samuel Kummer, Kern 3/info/organ" target="_blank">organ of Frauenkirche Dresden, Carus-Verlag




References






External links


Symphonie 3/info/no." target="_blank">No.3, Op.28 (Vierne, Louis): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Louis Vierne – 3/info/symphony" target="_blank">Symphony no 3 in f sharp minor (2016) on YouTube

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