Suite No.2 for Organ

Historical context

This is the Second Suite of Vierne’s 24 Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 53, composed in 1926 and published in 1927, its six pieces dedicated largely to the American organists and builders who had befriended him. It holds the most famous miniature he ever wrote: Clair de lune (No. 5), a hushed nocturne in D-flat that floats over the softest stops of the organ, dedicated to his friend Ernest Skinner, organ-builder of Boston. The suite’s other pieces are the Lamento, Sicilienne, Hymne au soleil, Feux follets and a closing Toccata, the last inscribed to the American organist Alexandre Russell at Princeton.

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