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    Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic era. As a composer...
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  • by Charles-Marie Widor in 1879, with numerous revisions published by the composer in later years. The full symphony lasts for about 35 minutes. Widor: Symphonie...
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    VI pour orgue) in G minor, Op. 42, No. 2, is an organ symphony by Charles-Marie Widor. Completed in 1878, the composer premiered it at the Palais du Trocadéro...
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  • International Charles-Marie Widor for organ and improvisation 5 June 1987: Officier des Arts et Lettres Frazier, James E. (2007). "Marie-Madeleine Chevalier"...
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    and Lazare Lévy (piano), Guilmant and Louis Vierne (organ), and Charles-Marie Widor (fugue and composition). In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome...
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  • the first movement in C minor and the following in A-flat major. Charles-Marie Widor considered A-flat major to be the second best key for flute music...
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  • Charles-Marie Widor: Organ Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6. Pierre Labric, Organist. Recorded in July, October and December 1971 at Saint-Ouen, Rouen. Charles-Marie Widor: Organ...
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  • Sinfonía de Antígona Antique: Friedrich Witt attrib., Symphonie antique Charles-Marie Widor, Symphonie Antique, Op. 83 Antretter: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade...
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    Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898–99. She died in Paris. Her father was the mayor of Steinseltz...
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    Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant (Paris: Leduc, 1898) Méditation, published in L'Orgue moderne, 15th issue, edited by Charles-Marie Widor and...
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    Surrexit a mortuis (category Compositions by Charles-Marie Widor)
    collection of choral works by Widor and Louis Vierne. Morgan, Dan (November 2015). "Louis Vierne (1870–1937) ... Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)". musicweb-international...
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    Eichentopf [de], who was active there from about 1717 until 1749. The organist Charles Marie Widor in his book on orchestration expected that the semi-contra would...
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  • the strings a more manageable key and to produce a brighter sound. Charles-Marie Widor considered D-flat major to be the best key for flute music. Although...
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    was inaugurated during the 1878 World Fair with a concert in which Charles Marie Widor played the premiere of his Symphony for Organ No. 6. The building...
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  • of French authorities, as well as that of composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor, who became its first director, the American Conservatory, was granted...
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    addition, he taught at the Conservatoire de Paris where he succeeded Charles-Marie Widor as organ teacher in 1896. As a teacher, Guilmant was noted for his...
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    of dodecaphony. A student of Théodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Charles-Marie Widor, among others, he was the titular organist of the grand organ of...
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  • Conservatoire, conducted by Jules Garcin Charles-Marie Widor: Grave in C minor (by the author) - CM Charles-Marie Widor: Cinquième Symphonie, for solo organ...
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    Julius Günther and composition with Wilhelm Heinze in Stockholm and Charles-Marie Widor in France. Netzel was active in social causes, including support...
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  • Grande Pièce Symphonique several years earlier, and the composers Charles-Marie Widor, who wrote ten organ symphonies, and his pupil Louis Vierne, who...
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    the first performance on 22 May 1878 at Saint-Sulpice, Paris, with Charles-Marie Widor as the organist. It was first published the same year. Camille Saint-Saëns...
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  • teacher, composer Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) – organist, composer and conductor Louise Janssen (1863–1938) – opera singer Marie Charbonnel (1880–1969) –...
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    its large, unaltered Cavaillé-Coll organ, which was described by Charles-Marie Widor as "a Michelangelo of an organ". With the cathedral and the Church...
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    Cavaillé-Coll organ which was inaugurated with a concert in which Charles Marie Widor played the premiere of his Symphony for Organ No. 6. The building...
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    based on the Gregorian chants for the day. Unlike the symphonies of Charles-Marie Widor, which are usually heard in secular recitals (even when individual...
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    Conservatoire at age 11 and studied with Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré, among others. He was appointed organist at the...
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    Louis Vierne (category Pupils of Charles-Marie Widor)
    full-time student in 1890. When Franck died on 8 November 1890, Charles-Marie Widor succeeded him. Vierne became his assistant in the organ class and...
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    he studied with Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne and Alexandre Guilmant. From 1895 to 1898, he was organist of the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Batignolles...
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  • (1842–1894) Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Claude-Paul Taffanel (1844–1908) Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Henri Duparc (1848–1933) Benjamin...
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  • Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732–33) Louis Vuillemin (1879–1929) Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (1857–1925) Michèl Yost (1754–1786)...
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