Organ Symphony
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This page lists the best known Symphonies
for solo Organ
and Symphonies
for Orchestra and Organ. Organ concerto
s (by composers such as George Frideric Handel
, Francis Poulenc
, and David Briggs) are not listed here.
Edward Shippen Barnes
Alexandre Cellier
Pierre Cochereau
Marcel Dupré
Marc Giacone
Jean Guillou
Jean Langlais
Charles Tournemire
Louis Vierne
Charles-Marie Widor
Marcel Dupré
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Marie Widor
Organ Symphony
This page lists the best known Symphonies for solo Organ and Symphonies for Orchestra and Organ. Organ concertos are not listed here.- Edward Shippen Barnes :...
for solo Organ
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
and Symphonies
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
for Orchestra and Organ. Organ concerto
Organ concerto
An organ concerto is a piece of music, an instrumental concerto for a pipe organ soloist with an orchestra. The form first evolves in the 18th century, when composers including George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach wrote organ concertos with small orchestras, and with...
s (by composers such as George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
, Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
, and David Briggs) are not listed here.
Edward Shippen BarnesEdward Shippen BarnesEdward Shippen Barnes was an American organist.He was a graduate of Yale University where he studied with Horatio Parker and Harry Jepson...
(1887-1958)
- First Symphony for Organ "Symphonie pour orgue", Op. 18 (1918)
- Second Symphony for Organ, Op. 37 (1923)
Alexandre CellierAlexandre CellierAlexandre Eugène Cellier was a French organist and composer.Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908 he won the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris. Before that he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor...
(1883-1968)
- Suite symphonique for organ in G major (1906)
- Pièce symphonique (1911)
Pierre CochereauPierre CochereauPierre Eugène Charles Cochereau , was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue.- Biography :Pierre Cochereau was born on July 9, 1924 in Saint-Mandé, near Paris. In 1929, after a few months of violin instruction, he began to take piano lessons with Marius-François Gaillard...
(1924-1984)
- Symphonie for organ (1950-1955)
- Numerous improvised symphonies recorded
Marcel DupréMarcel DupréMarcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
(1886-1971)
- Symphonie-passion for organ, Op. 23 (1924)
- Symphonie No. 2 in C minor for organ, Op. 26 (1929)
André Fleury (1903-1995)
- Allegro symphonique (1927)
- Symphonie No. 1 (1938/1943)
- Symphonie No. 2 (1946/1947)
Jean-Louis Florentz (1947-2004)
- La Croix du Sud, poème symphonique for organ, Op. 15 (1999)
- L’Enfant noir, conte symphonique for grand-organ in 14 figures, Op. 17 (2002)
Marc GiaconeMarc GiaconeMarc Giacone is a composer, organist and improviser from Monaco.Born in 1954 at Monaco, he studied organ with the Masters Emile Bourdon, Chanoine Henri Carol, Jean Wallet, the improvisation with Pierre Cochereau and the composition .Composer, electroacoustic researcher, virtuoso improviser, he...
(1954)
- Symphonie Cosmique (Cosmic Symphony) for organ (1981)
- Poème symphonique (2001)
- Fresque Symphonique "Ombres et Lumières" for organ (2004)
- Six Symphonic Variations for organ (2006)
Jean GuillouJean GuillouJean Victor Arthur Guillou is a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue.-Life:Following autodidactic studies in piano and organ performance, Guillou became organist at the church St. Serge in Angers at age 12. From 1945-1955, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Marcel Dupré,...
(1930)
- Sinfonietta for organ, Op. 4
- Symphonie Initiatique for 3 organs, Op. 18 (1971)
- Symphonie Initiatique for 4 hands (the same than above, transcribed for 4 hands), Op. 18 (1990)
Georges Jacob (1877-1950)
- Symphonie in E major for organ (1906)
Jean LanglaisJean LanglaisJean Langlais was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser.- Biography :Jean Langlais was born in La Fontenelle , a small village near Mont St Michel, France...
(1907-1991)
- Symphonie No. 1 for organ (1941)
- Symphonie No. 2 for organ (1976)
- Symphonie No. 3 for organ (1979)
Allan J. Ontko (1947)
- First Symphonie, Op.18 , 5 mvts. (1993)
- Second Symphonie, Op. 31, 4 mvts. (2001)
Santeri Siimes (1981)
- Symphonie pour orgue I (1993-94)
- Symphonie pour orgue II (1994)
- Symphonie pour orgue III (1994)
- Symphonie pour orgue IV (1994)
- Symphonie pour orgue V (1995)
- Symphonie pour orgue VI (1996)
- Symphonie pour orgue VII (1996)
- Symphonie pour orgue VIII (2002)
- Symphonie pour orgue IX (2003)
- Symphonie pour orgue X (2003)
- Symphonie pour orgue XI (2005)
Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988)
- Symphony No. 1 for Organ (1924)
- Second Symphony for Organ (1929-32)
- Third Organ Symphony (1949-53)
Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
- Symphonie pascale for organ (Entrée épiscopale – Offertoire – Sortie)
Charles TournemireCharles TournemireCharles Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant...
(1870-1939)
- Pièce symphonique, Op. 16 (1899)
- Fantaisie symphonique for organ, Op. 64 (1934)
- Symphonie-choral d'orgue in 6 parts, Op. 69 (1935)
- Symphonie sacrée for organ en 4 parts, Op. 71 (1936)
- Two fresques symphoniques sacrées, Opp. 75, 76 (1939)
Louis VierneLouis VierneLouis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
(1870-1937)
- Symphonie No. 1 for organ, Op. 14 (1899)
- Symphonie No. 2 for organ, Op. 20 (1903)
- Symphonie No. 3 for organ, Op. 28 (1911)
- Symphonie No. 4 for organ, Op. 32 (1914)
- Symphonie No. 5 for organ, Op. 47 (1924)
- Symphonie No. 6 for organ, Op. 59 (1930)
Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar (1812-1887)
- Symphony on Themes of Herzog Ernst von Sachsen-Coburg-GothaErnst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and GothaErnest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the second sovereign duke of the German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, reigning from 1844 to his death...
in D major, for organ, Op. 172 (1867) - the first organ solo symphony, and one of very few German organ symphonies
Charles-Marie WidorCharles-Marie WidorCharles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
(1844-1937)
- Symphonie No. 1 for organ in C minor, Op. 13
- Symphonie No. 2 for organ in D major, Op. 13
- Symphonie No. 3 for organ in E minor, Op. 13
- Symphonie No. 4 for organ in F minor, Op. 13
- Symphonie No. 5 for organ in F minor, Op. 42Symphony for Organ No. 5 (Widor)The Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42, No. 1, was composed by Charles-Marie Widor in 1879. It lasts for about thirty-five minutes. Its Toccata is the best known of all of Widor's compositions.-Structure:The piece has five movements:# Allegro vivace...
- Symphonie No. 6 for organ in G minor, Op. 42
- Symphonie No. 7 for organ in A minor, Op. 42
- Symphonie No. 8 for organ in B majot, Op. 42
- Symphonie No. 9 for organ, Op. 70 « Gothique »
- Symphonie No. 10 for organ, Op. 73 « Romane »
Marcel DupréMarcel DupréMarcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...
(1886 – 1971)
- Symphonie in G minor for organ and orchestra, Op. 25 (1928)
Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
(1835-1921)
- Symphony No. 3 with organSymphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...
Tomáš Svoboda (1939-)
- Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 43 (1965)
Charles-Marie WidorCharles-Marie WidorCharles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
(1844-1937)
- Symphonie pour orgue et orchestre, Op. 42 (1882)
- Symphony No. 3, Op. 69 (1894) - Organ and Orchestra
- Sinfonia sacra, Op. 81 (1908) - Organ and Orchestra
- Symphonie antique, Op. 83 (1911) - Soloists, Chorus, Organ and Orchestra