Volume / SeriesComplete Piano Works, Volume 3 | BÄRENREITER URTEXT EditorSchauerte-Maubouet, Helga Language(s) of textFrench, English, German Product formatPerformance score(s), Anthology, Urtext edition InstrumentationPiano BindingPaperback Pages / FormatXXXVIII, 68 S. - 31,0 x 24,3 cm
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.
Urtext Edition of Louis Vierne’s “Complete Piano Works” in three volumes
Critical edition based on all available sources
Includes two previously unpublished works
With an extensive foreword (Fr/Ger/Eng), Critical Commentary and facsimile pages
"These are excellent, refreshing and innovative publications; I recommend all pianists and teachers looking for new and rewarding repertoire to explore these and have them in their collections." (Piano Professional Spring 2015)
Content
Preface
To the complete edition of the piano works of Louis Vierne
Louis Vierne - Biographical overview
Jean-Pièrre Mazeirat:
Louis Vierne and the piano
The works
Facsimiles:
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis Silhouettes d'enfants op. 43
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis [Pièce pour piano] op. 49
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis Letter of 10 April 1925 to Jean Huré
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis Poème des cloches funèbres op. 39 (December 1916):
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis [1. Cloches dans le cauchemar (lost piece)]
Composer / Author: Vierne, Louis 2. Le Glas (first edition)