The Essential Organist For Manuals

The organ is one of the oldest instruments in Western music, and its sound has inspired many of the greatest composers from the past half a millennium from Bach through to Messiaen. The full possibilities of the instrument, however, have often been overlooked....

In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach''s organ music. The author...

<P>"... a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies... every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." ¿Early Keyboard Journal</P><P>"... a very perceptive and informative...

Two tales of misadventure and crime, illustrating the role of both a church organ and its player and also of a lay Justice of the Peace, drawn from the author's experiences in both title roles.