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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)
Among French organist-composers, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen and Jean Langlais made significant contributions to the 20th-century organ repertoire. Organ was also used a lot for improvisation, [22] with organists such as Charles Tournemire, Marcel Dupré, Pierre Cochereau, Pierre Pincemaille and Thierry Escaich.
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.
The biggest organ tablature, as well as one of the oldest in the world, is Organ Tablature by Jan of Lublin (1537–48), one of ca. 20 Polish organ tablatures created from 1520 to 1700. An emblematic organ tablature of the early baroque era is the Linzer Orgeltabulatur , compiled between 1611 and 1613 and containing 108 pieces of mostly non ...
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.
An organ symphony is a piece for solo pipe organ in various movements.It is a symphonic genre, not so much in musical form (in which it is more similar to the organ sonata or suite), but in imitating orchestral tone color, texture, and symphonic process.
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .