Organ Symphony No.4

Historical context

Vierne composed his Fourth Organ Symphony, in G minor, in 1914 - finishing it in the summer the First World War broke out - and it appeared in print in 1917. He dedicated it to the American organist William Crane Carl, founder of the Guilmant Organ School in New York and one of the transatlantic admirers who would later help draw Vierne to America. Like its companions in the cycle, it is a large, secular work in five movements, conceived for the orchestral colours of the Cavaillé-Coll organ rather than for the liturgy.

Drawn from public reference sources (Wikipedia, standard organ-repertoire references).