The Sixth Symphony, op. 59, is Vierne's last major work conceived for the organ of Notre-Dame. Besides the Quatre poèmes grecs, op. 60 (for voice and harp or piano) and the Ballade du désespéré, op. 61 (for tenor and or-chestra or piano), merely the somber Stèle pour un enfant défunt, op. 58, no. 3, and the Messe basse pour les défunts, op. 62, were written for organ in the period that followed.

In the manuscript - it is the last organ work that he wrote down himselfl - Vierne dated the Symph...