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Of the 60 composers mentioned below: 19 English, 14 French, 9 German...

And 17 others from Western Europe. Outside of Western Europe: 2 American and 1 Lebanese.

I never would have guessed the English were so prolific at composition for pipe organ.

Below is the rough breakdown of pipe-organ composers by nationality, just in case it interests anybody else besides me.

English - Arne, Bliss, Byrd, Clarke, Cook, Darke, Driffield, Elgar, Faulkes, Gibbons, Howells, Leighton, Locke, Parry, Purcell, Vaughn-Williams, Wesley, Whitlock, Willan

French - Berlioz, Bolemann, Campra, Corrette, Dupre, Franck, Gigout, Guillou, Guilmant, Hakim, Messiaen, Saint-Saens, Vierne, Widor

German - Bach, Brahms, Froberger, Handel, Karg-Elert, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Reger, Rhineberger

Belgian - Franck, Jongen, Peeters

American - Barber, Pinkham

Austrian - Bruckner, Haydn

Italian - Bossi, Frescobaldi

Norwegian - Greig, Takle

Danish - Buxtehude

Dutch - Sweelinck

Hungarian - Liszt

Irish - Stanford

Lebanese - Hakim

Slovak - Schmidt

Spanish - Soler

Swedish - Olsson

Welsh - Mathias


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