Charles-Marie Widor - Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Op. 62 (1889)

Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. Please support my channel: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra in A-flat major, Op. 62 (1889) Dedication: Isidor Philipp Martin Roscoe, piano and BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates Widor dedicated his Fantasy to Isidor Philipp, one of the greatest piano teachers of the 20th Century. Isidor Philipp studied piano under Georges Mathias (a pupil of Frédéric Chopin and Friedrich Kalkbrenner) at the Conservatoire de Paris and won First Prize in piano performance in 1883. Other teachers included Camille Saint-Saëns, Stephen Heller (a pupil of Carl Czerny, one of Beethoven’s students) and Théodore Ritter (a pupil of Franz Liszt). At the Conservatoire, he met fellow student Claude Debussy. They remained lifelong friends, and Philipp often played his compositions. After Debussy’s death, Philipp was regarded as the leadi