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Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France’s most distinguished but overlooked musicians, Charles-Marie Widor. Considered to be among the greatest organists of his time, Widor was a prolific composer in nearly every genre, professor of organ and composition at the Paris Conservatory, academician and administrator at the Institute of France, as well as a journalist, conductor, music editor, scholar, correspondent, and inspired visionary. Though known mainly as an organist and organ composer, particularly of the famous Toccata , Widor was in fact a man of deep culture who counted among his friends the elite of society and luminaries in nearly every field. He taught an imposing number of students from France and abroad, including the Bach scholar and renowned humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer. This volume, meticulously researched, includes translated press reviews of his work, and correspo0ndence with contemporaries and friends, making it a treasure for historians of the organ and nineteenth century French music. An appendix to the text constitutes the most complete listing of Widor’s oeuvre ever compiled; each work is dated as accurately as

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Author

John Richard Near

Publisher

University of Rochester Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580468985

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Music, Biography

Rating

4.7 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14