CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR (1844 - 1937) Widor occupies an important position in the idiosyncratic tradition of French organ music, serving as organist at St Sulpice in Paris for 64 years. His organ pupils included Tournemire, Vierne, Albert Schweitzer and Marcel Dupre, with composition pupils such as Honegger and Milhaud. His works include chamber music, choral and vocal works and orchestral works, with symphonies that also involve the organ. Much of Widor's organ music calls for the full resources of the great instruments made for major Paris churches by Cavaille-Coll. Of particular interest are Widor's ten Organ Symphonies, including the eighth, the Symphonie gothique. Some movements from the symphonies have won a special position in virtuoso repertoire, in particular the famous Toccata that ends Symphony No. 5 and the Marche pontificale of Symphony No. 1.