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
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