Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium

by Orpha Ochse

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Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium
Orpha Ochse

From the catastrophes of the French Revolution to a Golden Age of organ culture.

"[O]ne simply must recommend this highly coherent and well-illustrated book. . . ."—L'Orgue

"Even the well-informed reader will find a number of surprises. Who knows, for example, that Fryderyk Chopin played the organ for a funeral service and that Lefébure-Wély, in turn, played the great pianist and composer's Préludes for his funeral at the Madeleine? The abundance of details, we should add, does nothing to obscure the architectural clarity of this...

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  • ISBN10 0253214238
  • ISBN13 9780253214232
  • Publish Date 22 August 2000 (first published 1 December 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Indiana University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English