Marche sur un thème de Haendel op.15

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.