Symphony for Organ No. 6 (Widor)
The Symphony for Organ No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42, No. 2, is an organ symphony by Charles-Marie Widor. Composed in 1878, it was first published by Hamelle in 1879 together with the famous Symphony for Organ No. 5.
Widor composed the work, one of ten organ symphonies, when he was organist at Saint-Sulpice, a post he held from 1870. The church feature a main organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll which inspired the composer who wrote "If I had not experienced the seduction of these timbres or the mystical attraction of this wave of sound, I would never have written organ music."[1] Widor's first four symphonies was published by J. Maho in 1872 as his Op. 13.[1]
The work is structured in five movements:
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Intermezzo
- Cantabile
- Final
A critical edition was published by Carus-Verlag in 2015.[1]
