"This book is the best single source of information about American organ building and the content is clearly presented. There are wonderful quotations from prime sources and many photographs and stop-lists." --American Music Teacher
From the Spanish mission days of the 17th century to the present, the organ mirrors to a remarkable degree its social, economic, and cultural setting. Immigration, wars, industrial growth, the availability of electricity, the popularity of orchestral music, and the invention of the phonograph and of the player piano all had a part in determining the...
"This book is the best single source of information about American organ building and the content is clearly presented. There are wonderful quotati...
Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium Orpha Ochse
From the catastrophes of the French Revolution to a Golden Age of organ culture.
" O]ne simply must recommend this highly coherent and well-illustrated book...." L Orgue
"Even the well-informed reader will find a number of surprises. Who knows, for example, that Fryderyk Chopin played the organ for a funeral service and that Lefebure-Wely, in turn, played the great pianist and composer s Preludes for his funeral at the Madeleine? The abundance of details, we should...
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Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium Orpha Ochse
