Organ

The organ is a keyboard instrument whose sound can range from intimate reed colour to vast architectural power. It has served churches, courts, theatres, cinemas, and concert halls, shaping repertory from Renaissance counterpoint and Baroque fugue to Romantic organ symphonies and modern experiments. Its tag connects instrument design, sacred space, improvisation, and the long history of music made to fill large rooms.

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  Organ

  Organ symphonies by Louis Vierne, an eminent maestro of Notre Dame de Paris

  Louis Vierne was an outstanding musician, teacher and composer of organ music who for almost 40 years held the... 2 comments
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  Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music

  Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist, composer and theoretical writer whose creative period fell on the transitional... 1 comment
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  Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

  From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into... 4 comments
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  Mecca for organ music created by Dieterich Buxtehude in Lübeck

  The picture Musical Company by Johannes Voorhout shows baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude playing the viol while his...
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  The Orpheus of Amsterdam: the joyful nickname for organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

  The ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’ was the nickname lovingly given to Jan Pietersz Sweelinck (1562–1621), an organist, composer...