The last works by Louis Vierne Piano Solo - Sheet Music

By Louis Vierne

Louis Vierne is best-known as a famous organist and composer of organ music. Less well-known, as it was not part of his public life but was to a large extent reserved for private circles, was the fact that he was also an outstanding pianist. His piano works were praised by his contemporaries for their compositional refinement, fine sonority as well as frequent virtuosic passages and are on the same artistic level as his organ works. The third volume of the chronologically arranged edition of Vierne’s works includes “ Silhouettes d’enfants ” op. 43 in the tradition of 19th century children’s pieces and the major work of his later creative period, the four-movement cycle “ Solitude ” op. 44. It also includes two pieces which only survive in manuscript form, published here for the first time.

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Instrument:
Piano Solo
Genres:
20th Century
Composers:
Louis Vierne
Publishers:
Baerenreiter Verlag
Series:
Barenreiter Urtext
ISBN:
9790006535842
Format:
Performance Score Anthology
Item types:
Physical
Artist:
Louis Vierne
Usages:
School and Community
Size:
12.2 x 9.57 inches
Shipping Weight:
1.16 pounds

Piano

SKU: BA.BA09613

Composed by Louis Vierne. Edited by Helga Schauerte-Maubouet. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Louis Vierne. Complete Piano Works III | BARENREITER URTEXT. Performance score, anthology. Composed 1916-1922. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09613. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09613).

ISBN 9790006535842. 12.2 x 9.57 inches. Text Language: French/English/German. Preface: Helga Schauerte-Maubouet/Jean-Pierre Mazeirat.

Louis Vierne is best-known as a famous organist and composer of organ music. Less well-known, as it was not part of his public life but was to a large extent reserved for private circles, was the fact that he was also an outstanding pianist.

His piano works were praised by his contemporaries for their compositional refinement, fine sonority as well as frequent virtuosic passages and are on the same artistic level as his organ works.

The third volume of the chronologically arranged edition of Vierne’s works includes “ Silhouettes d’enfants ” op. 43 in the tradition of 19th century children’s pieces and the major work of his later creative period, the four-movement cycle “ Solitude ” op. 44. It also includes two pieces which only survive in manuscript form, published here for the first time.

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Pilotnat

May 18, 2011

The Piano Works of Louis Vierne

When one thinks of the name Louis Vierne, they may automically conjur the images of the Grandest of Cathedral Organs, in the most gargoyic of Churches. If not that, then perhaps the Organ and Organ Music. But for this French Romantic highly regarded for his Impeccable Organ Technique, and Compositions, would one even dare to associate this master with the PianoForte? This magnificent complation, collecting most of the only known works written by Vierne for the Piano Forte, is an outstanding study in the Art and Poety of Romantic French Music. Well not as known or accalimed as his Organ Works, this collection is a great study in the compositional features that not only showcases the Vierne Sound but also tonally explains why Vierne is one of the most highly defined and celebrated French Composers.