Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Achim Breiling <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>On my little excursion on organ music I recently picked up a new recording >>of works by Marcel Dupre by Thomas Trotter on the Princeton University >>Chapel Skinner-organ (Decca). ... is this symphony-passion the *first* >>organ symphony or is there an earlier one? > >Is Saint-Saens symphony nr.3 earlier? I think the Dupre - like those of Vierne (aren't these earlier?) - is an Organ Symphony in the sense of being for organ alone, not a symphony with organ, like the S-S. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]