Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 1999/01

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Albert S.& Programs
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:36:13 -0500

He (Widor) wrote a piece for clarinet (and piano), too.

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

Neil Leupold wrote:

> Oh, he was more than just "reasonably proficient." Schweitzer began
> studying music as a young child and ultimately studied with none other
> than Charles-Marie Widor. Who is Widor? He was the organist at St.
> Sulpice in Paris for over 60 years and Professor of Organ and Prof.
> of Composition at the Paris Conservatoire. You may have heard of
> a couple of his other students...Honegger and Milhaud. Widor was
> literally the inventor of the organ symphony as a genre of compo-
> sition. Schweitzer picked up a passion for Bach while under Widor's
> tutelage and wrote a massive study of Bach's organ works (originally
> in French, then later a version twice as comprehensive in German).
> This aspect of Schweitzer's life is often obscured amidst his philan-
> thropic medical legacy.
>
> Neil

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