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Posted by Harmonia on May 17, 2007 at 23:59:02

In Reply to: Besides the French composers, who else does pipe organ music well? posted by vacuous on May 17, 2007 at 15:00:25:

I adore French organ music but as a former organist may I beg you not to limit yourself to the French composers alone, divine though they may be. You've only scratched the surface - remember, every church of any size at all in Europe had a pipe organ and someone to play it so we're talking a loooooong tradition here. There is a HUGE and varied repertoire for the instrument from 1600 to present. This is just dipping the toe in the water really.

So...while your'e still navigating French waters do check out folks like Henri Mulet, Louis-Claude Daquin and Joseph Bonnet,

But I cannot live on France alone.

*Buxthude*
*Handel*
*Brahms*
For heaven's sake, if you know Bach you can't leave out these composers above! These fellas weren't French and they are...ah...MAJOR.

Pachelbel
Reger
Bruckner
Faulkes
Gibbons
Arne
Purcell
Locke
Peeters
Mathias
Elgar
Vaughn-Williams
Darke
Whitlock
Bliss
Willan
Parry
Leighton
Stanford
Pinkham
Hakim

There's a ton of contemporary composers whose names temporarily escape me, and there's a fine body of work from the low countries and Scandinavia that I'm just getting into. A Norwegian contemporary I quite like is a composer named Takle. Many major composers you wouldn't necessarily think of as "organ composers" have created fine works for the instrument.

Bach, though, he is the master.

There are several very good compilation series out there, including a nice one on Hyperion called Organ Fireworks - I think they're up to Volume 11 or so. Anthologies are a good way to expose yourself to more music.

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