Louis Vierne (1870-1937), a student of Cesar Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, was organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for 37 years, until his death at the console during a recital. He was Widor's successor as the organ's great French symphonist, an assessment the passage of time has proved correct. Vierne's music has remained in the ...
Assembled by a noted organ scholar and performer, this compilation features some of Dupre's most popular pieces -- previously available only in an expensive European edition. Contents include 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7; Scherzo, Op. 16; and Les vepres du Commun des Fetes de la Sainte Vierge, Op. 18.
Suitable for intermediate and experienced organists, this appealing collection features 43 organ works in slow tempo. Its tremendous variety includes pieces by such celebrated composers for organ as J. S. Bach, Guilmant, Vierne, and Widor, as well as works by Brahms, Couperin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann, Saint-Saens, and others.
A brilliant anthology of virtuoso works that will delight serious organists, this collection of 26 arrangements from the scores of the great composers encompasses true masterpieces of the transcriber's art. The transcribers include such experts as Liszt, Saint-Saens, Guilmant, Vierne, and Best, treating the music of Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, ...
This unique collection is devoted solely to original organ music without pedal. Includes "Serenade to the Madonna," part of 3 pieces by Berlioz; a Barcarolle and Prayer by Saint-Saens, a portion of another 3-piece set; 3 rhapsodies and communion music by Bizet; plus other organ classics by Liszt, Gounod, Cui, Dupre, Vierne, and Gliere.
Selected from authoritative sources by musicologist and organist Rollin Smith, this compilation features such famous works as J. S. Bach's "Pastorale, BWV 590"; Couperin's "Chaconne in F"; and Handel's "Concerto No. 13," "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale." Other well-known selections include compositions by Brahms, Gounod, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, ...
Features familiar seasonal works together with rare Christmas music. Contents include Bach, "In dulci jubilo"; Daquin, "Noel X" (with Final by Marcel Dupre); Dupre, "Il est ne le devin enfant"; Guilmant, "Sortie sur un noel polonais"; Maleingreau, "Symphonie de Noel"; Reger, "Weinachten"; plus 10 others.
"O Holy Night," Faure's "Pie Jesu" (from his "Requiem"), Franck's "Panis Angelicus," Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus," Sullivan's "The Lost Chord," and many other favorites.
A style that relies upon counterpoint, or the interplay of two or more motifs, the fugue has captivated listeners for centuries. This original collection features a tremendous variety of pieces from the fugue's heyday in the Baroque period as well as other eras, each created by a master of the genre.
This wealth of works for organists who prefer to play without pedals includes J. S. Bach's Partite diverse sopra, "O Gott, du frommer Gott!"; Best's "Prelude on a Chorale" by Thomas Tallis; Pachelbel's "Canon in D"; plus works by Elgar, Dupre, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Frescobaldi, Handel, Liszt, and others.
Stainer's classic beginner's method was so popular that Schirmer, Ditson, and Presser each published its own edition within two years of each other! Of the competing American editions, it is the 1909 Schirmer edition prepared by F.Flaxington Harker--retained in the present Dover reprint--that has the best graphics. In addition to rudimentary ...
Preludes, processionals, songs, and hymns -- this compilation features all of the traditional and best-loved wedding music. Selections include the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, the Schubert and Gounod "Ave Marias," Pachelbel's "Canon," Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," and Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Features 53 pieces in all.
Yuletide favorites by 24 different composers appear in this compilation of traditional and classical works. Assembled by a noted musicologist and organist, its simplified arrangements include 6 settings of the traditional German carol "In Dulci Jubilo," plus Christmas music by Buxtehude, Guilmant, Berlioz, and many others.
Many of the best-loved organ pieces appear here -- J. S. Bach's "Toccata" and "Fugue in D Minor"; Mozart's "Fantasia in F Minor" (K.594); works by Buxtehude, Mendelssohn and many others.
This collection offers a variety of church and concert works for the organ and includes French, Italian, English, Belgian, German, and American music that spans more than 250 years of organ composition. Features Bach's "Toccata" and "Fugue in D Minor"; the "Toccata" from Charles-Marie Widor's 5th Organ Symphony.
A concert organist and frequent writer about organs, Smith documents the 15 years Leopold Stokowski (1882-1997) spent as a church organist before he began his long and distinguished career as an orchestra conductor, focusing on his three years as director of music at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He looks at his early training, his car
This appealing collection ranges in scope from pieces by famous organists to inventive works by lesser-known composers. Includes 2 pieces by Arthur Honegger; Jacques Ibert's Trois Pieces; J. Massenet's Prelude in C; Trois Pieces by Gabriel Pierne; Roger-Ducasse's Pastorale; Camille Saint-Saens' Fantaisie in E-flat; Erik Satie's Messe de Pauvres; ...
The Saint Cecilia Organ Library sets the standard in recital-quality church organ music. The series consists of hymn tunes, transcriptions of classical masterworks, and new original works for the organ.
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