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- <h1>Louis Vierne Is a BAMF (and Proof That Organists Are Metal)</h1>
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- Louis Vierne is a certifiable badass organist from the end of the 19th
- and early 20th centuries. He was born blind and had to have surgery to
- be able to distinguish shapes and objects. Did that stop him from
- playing the one instrument that literally requires you to distinguish
- hundreds and hundreds of small objects from each other? Nope, he just
- did it (and he learned from Cesar Franck, another great organist).
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- In 1906 he got hit by a car and the doctors said they might have to
- amputate his leg. Did you know you play an organ with both your hands
- <em>and</em> both your feet? Well you do, and Vierne just re-learned how
- to play with his feet after the accident. Because nobody tells Louis
- Vierne no.
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- And because he's a badass, Vierne went on to become the official
- organist at the Notre Dame in Paris, a position he won by competitively
- dunking on numerous other musicians. He considered this his greatest
- achievement, and what Louis Vierne says goes.
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- In one final act of badassery, he carried out his lifelong dream: to die
- while playing at Notre Dame. In 1937, to a full recital hall in Notre
- Dame, he was giving his 1,750th performance and actually
- <em
- >had a heart-attack while playing and died at the console, and keeled
- over so that the low "E" played until they removed his body</em
- >. To this day, no rock band has ever been so metal.
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- Alright, so without the decoration, Louis Vierne is my favorite Organist
- and composer from the period. The organ is, in my opinion, the coolest
- instrument on the planet. It's the biggest, the loudest, and the most
- impressive. It's also got the most wide and interesting array of sounds,
- like having an orchestra at your fingertips. Vierne made some of my
- favorite music for the organ (music that my lowly organ skills will
- never let me play). He's also, obviously, pretty badass.
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- In truth, I think all organists are pretty cool. They play a cool,
- complicated instrument that really sounds like no other. They also play
- with their hands and their feet. Someone once said when a musician mates
- with an octopus, an organist is born. Come to think of it, Davy Jones
- plays the Organ and he's pretty cool. Coincidence? I think not.
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- If you get the chance, give Vierne a listen, you can look up his work on
- YouTube or a Pandora Radio station in his name. Look especially for
- Symphony No. 1 for Organ in D Minor, Op. 14. That's the first song I
- heard of his live (and in my understanding is the one he was playing
- when he died).
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