His blindness has done nothing to stop him from playing the organ.
- "The organ played a mysterious prelude, quite unlike any I had heard at Lille; I was bowled over and became almost ecstatic. ... I could not hold back my tears. I knew nothing; I understood nothing; but my instinct was violently shaken by this expressive music echoing through every pore."— Louis Vierne, Journal entry on listening to César Franck playing the organ
Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French composer and the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death.
