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Mendelssohn had included the organ in his second symphony, "Lobgesang", but that work is a symphonic cantata, while Vincent d'Indy's Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, which includes piano concertante, was only begun after the premiere of the Organ symphony. This instrumentation "had not previously factored in an established symphony".
Monsieur Lebouc managed to assemble a definitive line-up of eminent performers: Messieurs Saint-Saëns, Diémer, Taffanel, Turban [], Maurin, Prioré, de Bailly and Tourcy who, after a very interesting program, took part in the first performance of a very witty fantasy burlesque, composed for this concert by Saint-Saëns and entitled the Carnival of the Animals.
An organ concerto is a type of classical music composition in which a pipe organ soloist is accompanied by an orchestra, ...
An organ symphony is a piece for solo pipe organ in various movements.It is a symphonic genre, not so much in musical form (in which it is more similar to the organ sonata or suite), but in imitating orchestral tone color, texture, and symphonic process.
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Camille Saint-Saëns.The works are categorised by genre, opus number, Ratner catalogue number, date of composition and titles
A particularly important form of organ composition in the Romantic era was the organ symphony, first seen in César Franck's Grand pièce symphonique and refined in the ten symphonies of Widor and the six of Louis Vierne. The organ symphony, comprising several movements, paralleled symphonies written for the orchestra.
Encores a la francaise & Poulenc: Organ Concerto (with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) Franck: The Complete Masterworks for Organ; Jongen: Symphonie Concertante & Franck: Fantaisie in A (with the San Francisco Symphony) Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion (with the Empire Brass) Poulenc: Gloria and Concerto for Organ (with the Atlanta Symphony ...