Guilmant took the march theme from Haendel's Messiah. The piece is organized as follows : 0:00 the march itself, pp 1:45 an energetic fugue which progresses from mf to ff 3:46 a transitional episode which mixes fragments from the marche theme and from the fugue theme and leads to : 4:50 the re-exposition of the march, fff this time.
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