Organ Symphony No.6

Historical context

Vierne composed his Sixth and last Organ Symphony, in B minor, in 1930; it was published in 1931. He dedicated it to Maurice Duruflé, the pupil who would stand at his side in the Notre-Dame loft on the night he died, and it was Duruflé who gave the première, at Notre-Dame, on 3 June 1934. The grandest and most elaborate of the six, the Sixth Symphony closed the cycle Vierne had begun more than thirty years earlier with the First.

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