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A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. ISBN 0-9528050-2-2; Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5; Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music.
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Fugue in D major for organ, WoO 31 (1783) Berlioz, Hector. Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ, H 100 (1844) Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ, H 98 (1844) Toccata in C major for organ, H 99 (1844) Boëllmann, Léon. Suite Gothique; Nimrod Borenstein. Monologue opus 50 for ...
The great composers of the classical era wrote sparingly if at all for the organ: Haydn wrote for clockwork organs, and wrote several concerti for organ and orchestra. Beethoven and Mozart wrote only a handful of works.
Modern composers such as Jean Guillou have written organ symphonies as well. The term organ symphony is also used occasionally to refer to orchestral symphonies with a prominent solo role for an organ (as distinct from an organ concerto ).
On the basis of a mere twelve major organ works, Franck is considered by many the greatest composer of organ music after Bach. His works were some of the finest organ pieces to come from France in over a century, and laid the groundwork for the French symphonic organ style.
A Handel-Album, which extended to twenty volumes, was originally intended to consist of selections from the lesser-known instrumental works arranged for the organ; it was afterwards taken from more varied sources—the operas especially. He arranged for organ some hundreds of excerpts from other great masters' vocal and instrumental works.
George William Henry Faulkes (1863–1933) – known professionally as William Faulkes [1] – was an English musician now best known as the composer of organ music. [ 2 ] Early life