The Organist And The Magistrate Av Richard Trahair

<ul><li>An intriguing account of the author''s time working as the estate manager for the Diocese of Salisbury</li><li>Full of anecdotes of day-to-day life, ranging from comedic, to thought-provoking, to tragic.</li><li>Will...

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....

<p>A dead body is discovered at the Cape by a local volunteer coastguard Watchkeeper who decides in a spirit of Cornish self-reliance to pursue his own investigation of the affair, which is baffling the local police.</p><p>In the guise...

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...