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Publication schedule

Organ WorksVol. I Symphonie no. 1, op. 14 BA 9221 2010

Vol. II Symphonie no. 2, op. 20 BA 9222 2010

Vol. III Symphonie no. 3, op. 28 BA 9223 January 2008

Vol. IV Symphonie no. 4, op. 32 BA 9224 2011

Vol. V Symphonie no. 5, op. 47 BA 9225 2010

Vol. VI Symphonie no. 6, op. 59 BA 9226 2009

Vol. VII.1 Pièces de Fantaisie en quatre suites (Livre I, 1-6), op. 51 BA 9227 2009

Vol. VII.2 Pièces de Fantaisie en quatre suites (Livre II, 7-12), op. 53 BA 9228 January 2008

Vol. VII.3 Pièces de Fantaisie en quatre suites (Livre III, 13-18), op. 54 BA 9229 2008

Vol. VII.4 Pièces de Fantaisie en quatre suites (Livre IV, 19-24), op. 55 BA 9230 2008

Vol. VIII.1 Pièces en style libre pour orgue ou harmonium (Livre I, 1-12), op. 31 BA 9235 2009

Vol. VIII.2 Pièces en style libre pour orgue ou harmonium (Livre II, 13-24), op. 31 BA 9236 2009

Vol. IX Masses and individual liturgical works BA 9237 2010

Vol. X Improvisations and Transcriptions BA 9238 2011

Piano WorksVol. I The Early Works (1893-1900) BA 9611 2010

Vol. II Préludes (1914-1915) / Nocturnes (1915-1916) BA 9612 2009

Vol. III The Last Works (1916-1922) BA 9613 March 2008

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• The complete organ works are available at subscription prices 15% lower than the regular retail prices.

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• The complete organ and piano works are available at subscription prices 20% lower than the regular retail prices.

These editions are not available in France.

For copyright reasons these editions will only be available from January 2008 onwards.

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Louis Vierne (1870–1937) studied privately with César Franck. He deputised for Charles-Marie Widor at St. Sulpice (Paris) from 1892 onwards, before being appoin ted titulaire organist at Notre Dame (Paris) in 1900. He held this position until his death. Numerous concert tours throughout Europe and the USA made him well-known outside France. His famous students included Nadia Boulanger and Maurice Durufl é. In turn, Durufl é’s student Thierry Escaich is the co-editor of this Vierne Urtext Edition.Vierne’s organ works are undisputed masterpieces of organ music and form an integral part of the virtuoso organ repertoire.

Notre Dame, Paris

The Editor:Helga Schauerte-Maubouet is an internationally known music scholar and interpreter of French organ music. She has written several articles for the MGG and is currently editing Urtext editions of the organ works of Léon Boëllmann and Théodore Dubois as well as choral works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. She teaches at the Paris Conservatoire Nadia Boulanger and is organist at the German Protestant Church in Paris. Described as “une excellente musicienne doublée d‘une organiste remarquable“ (Jean Langlais, 1987), Helga Schauerte-Maubouet has made over 20 CD recordings, including the complete organ works of Jehan Alain and composer portraits of Boëllmann, Dubois and Langlais, as well as recordings for radio and television.

The Co-editors• Thierry Escaich

(professor at the Paris Conservatoire)

• Rollin Smith (organist and musicologist)

• Olivier Gardon (pianist and professor at the Paris Conservatoire)

• Brigitte de Leersnyder (pianist and musicologist)

• Jean-Pierre Mazeirat (musicologist)

Louis Vierne: The New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition

In particular, Vierne raised the form of the organ symphony to new heights and infl uenced the development of organ technique worldwide. The collections Pièces de Fantaisie and Pièces en style libre also received wide acclaim.The compositional level of Vierne’s piano works equals that of the organ works. For the fi rst time they will appear in a complete critical edition which will include previously unpublished works as well as works attributed to him. His musical language was infl uenced to a large extent by his teacher César Franck; there are also compositional elements of Claude Debussy.Due to the varying degree of diffi culty the organ and piano works will appeal to both the professional musician as well as the advanced student.

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• A complete critical performing edition of Vierne’s organ and piano works

• Includes all Vierne’s works; those published during his lifetime, those previously unpublished and those attributed to him

• Based on an evaluation of all available autographs, fi rst prints and hitherto unpublished letters

• An Urtext edition which is consistent in its philological approach towards existing editorial problems

• Editorial clarifi cation which by far exceeds prevailing international correction lists

• Presentation of the editorial principles and methods as well as of the sources in an extensive critical commentary (German, English, French)

• Detailed preface (German, English, French) with suggestions for performance

Pièce pour Piano op. 49, autograph, bar 161-165