César Franck

Complete Works for Organ Vol. 5

Since the first edition published posthumously in 1892, César Franck's collection of pieces for organ or harmonium entitled LOrganiste is being published for the first time in a new edition by the Wiener Urtext Edition. The musical text is based on the autograph engraver's model of 1890, whose 59 pieces are supplemented by four further pieces which Franck had intended for the collection but no longer wrote out. The individual pieces are grouped into nine cycles, arranged according to key, each consisting of six Magnificat versets and one larger Offertoire or Sortie. The tonally and harmonically attractive compositions enrich the organ repertoire of the French late Romantic period and are equally suitable for liturgy, teaching and concerts.