LUC DUPUIS
Organist and Composer
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
The Complete Set of 10 Symphonies for Organ
in an Innovative Edition
A CLEAR AND
UNAMBIGUOUS EDITION
How many times have you wondered if a drawstring or keyboard change indication is missing? How to play a line that seems impractical? How to interpret suspicious phrasing indications? All these questions have been answered and clearly explained in the 13-page foreword.
As for the edition notes, indicating the editor’s comments and initiatives, they are grouped at the end of each symphony. In contrast to traditional musicological editions, the score is not cluttered with signs referring to these notes for greater clarity and comfort.
A RESOLUTELY
PRACTICAL OBJECTIVE
Widor asks you to play two manuals simultaneously with one hand, but the layout of your keyboards does not allow this... except by reading this edition!
Does your console contain 61-note keyboards and a 32-step pedalboard? This edition takes advantage of this, to make the most of your instrument's resources.
The foreword and the editon notes are bilingual (French/English).
A STUNNING ENGRAVING
The landscape format of this edition is particularly suitable for organ consoles. Spiral bindings prevent the score from closing on its own.
And finally, the quality of the musical engraving and its layout will make you want to read the symphonies that you have not yet played.
Even the movements Widor deleted have been reproduced and are available as optional extras.
9th Symphonie (Gothic)
Some useful links
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The composer and his works on Wikipedia
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His famous 5th Symphony for organ on Wikipedia