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The organ repertoire is considered to be the largest and oldest repertory of all musical instruments. [1] Because of the organ 's (or pipe organ 's) prominence in worship in Western Europe from the Middle Ages on, a significant portion of organ repertoire is sacred in nature .
Andante (Prelude) in D minor for organ, WAB 126/2 (c. 1846) Prelude in E flat major for organ, WAB 127 (c. 1835, doubtful authorship, possibly by Johann Baptist Weiss) Four Preludes in E flat major for organ, WAB 128 (c. 1835, doubtful authorship, possibly by Johann Baptist Weiss) Prelude (Perger Präludium) in C major for organ, WAB 129 (1884)
A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. ISBN 0-9528050-2-2; Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5; Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music.
This category is a collection of articles relating to the organ (the musical instrument), including pipe organs, electronic organs, organists and related topics. Related topics include Category:Electric and electronic keyboard instruments .
Music with orchestra and pipe organ. Includes any compositions with orchestra that has an organ-part as well as organ concertos (Organ concertos are listed in a subcategory). The list should not include continuo parts.
A chamber organ is a small pipe organ, often with only one manual, and sometimes without separate pedal pipes that is placed in a small room, that this diminutive organ can fill with sound. It is often confined to chamber organ repertoire, as often the organs have too few voice capabilities to rival the grand pipe organs in the performance of ...
[1] [3] While still a student he was engaged to play the organ at St Louis-des-Invalides from 1855 and Sainte-Clotilde (under César Franck) from 1858. [1] He gained successively first prizes for harmony, fugue, and organ, and finally, in 1861, France's premier musical prize the Prix de Rome. [4] [5] Villa de Medici, Rome
Many organ builders use the name Plein-jeu for a compound ranks stop. When a single key on the organ is pressed, four or more notes sound, each at octave and fifth relationships to each other. Three ranks of pipes sound three notes, and two ranks sound two notes, and so forth.