Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Tribute to Charles-Marie Widor
- Part One Studies, Early Performances, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1844–69)
- Part Two La Belle Époque: The Franco-Prussian War to The Great War (1870–1914)
- Part Three The Great War and Important Initiatives (1914–37)
- Appendix 1 Birth record of Charles-Marie Widor, 1844
- Appendix 2 Widor’s Diplôme de Bachelier ès Lettres, 1863
- Appendix 3 Widor’s letter of appreciation to Jacques Lemmens, 1863
- Appendix 4 Brussels Ducal Palace organ specification, 1861
- Appendix 5 Widor’s certificate for Chevalier de l’Ordre du Christ, 1866
- Appendix 6 “To Budapest,” 1893
- Appendix 7 Widor’s travels to Russia and his 1903 passport
- Appendix 8 Widor’s list of his works in 1894
- Appendix 9 The Paris Conservatory organs, 1872
- Appendix 10 Chronique [Widor’s appeal for an organ hall at the Paris Conservatory, 1895]
- Appendix 11 Widor’s certificate for the Académie Royale, Brussels, 1908
- Appendix 12 “Debussy & Rodin,” 1927
- Appendix 13 The American Conservatory organ, Fontainebleau, 1925
- Appendix 14 Letters concerning the Trocadéro organ restoration, 1926
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
Appendix 7 - Widor’s travels to Russia and his 1903 passport
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Tribute to Charles-Marie Widor
- Part One Studies, Early Performances, and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1844–69)
- Part Two La Belle Époque: The Franco-Prussian War to The Great War (1870–1914)
- Part Three The Great War and Important Initiatives (1914–37)
- Appendix 1 Birth record of Charles-Marie Widor, 1844
- Appendix 2 Widor’s Diplôme de Bachelier ès Lettres, 1863
- Appendix 3 Widor’s letter of appreciation to Jacques Lemmens, 1863
- Appendix 4 Brussels Ducal Palace organ specification, 1861
- Appendix 5 Widor’s certificate for Chevalier de l’Ordre du Christ, 1866
- Appendix 6 “To Budapest,” 1893
- Appendix 7 Widor’s travels to Russia and his 1903 passport
- Appendix 8 Widor’s list of his works in 1894
- Appendix 9 The Paris Conservatory organs, 1872
- Appendix 10 Chronique [Widor’s appeal for an organ hall at the Paris Conservatory, 1895]
- Appendix 11 Widor’s certificate for the Académie Royale, Brussels, 1908
- Appendix 12 “Debussy & Rodin,” 1927
- Appendix 13 The American Conservatory organ, Fontainebleau, 1925
- Appendix 14 Letters concerning the Trocadéro organ restoration, 1926
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
Summary
[see Figs. 24 and 25]
During Widor's 1896 trip to Russia, he became acquainted with Vasily Safonov (1852–1918), a pianist, conductor, and director of the Moscow Conservatory. Safonov planned to construct a new conservatory building with a grand concert hall. Upon Widor's recommendation, a Cavaillé-Coll/Mutin organ was commissioned and installed in 1901; Widor inaugurated the instrument on April 11 (see Near, Widor: A Life, 274–75). He returned to Russia again in 1903, which was announced in Ménestrel 69 (February 1, 1903): 40.
Ch.-M. Widor left Thursday [January 29] for Saint-Petersburg and Moscow, where he will conduct orchestra concerts and perform on the organ. In the latter city he will perform again on the superb organ by Cavaillé-Coll that we admired at the 1900 [Paris] Exhibition and which was, on his advice, commissioned by the Imperial Russian Society for the hall of the Conservatory. In Moscow, Ch.-M. Widor will conduct many unpublished works, among others the Overture and the March from Les Pêcheurs de Saint-Jean [an opera in four acts, premiered December 26, 1905, at the Opéra-Comique, Paris].
On the passport issued to Widor on January 22, 1903, the passport agency described his physical characteristics: “height: 172 centimeters [5ʹ7¾ʺ]; hair: gray; forehead: high; eyebrows: gray; eyes: dark; nose: roman; mouth: average; beard: gray; chin: round; face: oval; complexion: clear.”
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- Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor , pp. 163 - 164Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024