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Widor's toccata

Argoth

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I have the recording of Widor playing this, and I do enjoy it, but I heard the Allegro movement from his SIXTH organ symphony in G minor at a recital last week, and I have fallen in love with it. I listened to a few different recordings of this at the library, and some of them I love, others I don't like at all (there is a part like a dance about 2/3 of the way into the piece -sorry I don't have the vocabulary for what that is called- and some recordings have organists just racing through that part, which I don't like) Does anyone else like this piece or play it?
 

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Yes, Widor did, imho, sometimes use the leitmotiv device. Vierne, in his symphonies, used the leitmotiv device quite freely.
 
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