Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium [Paperback]

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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.... LOrgue

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 Lef?bure-W?ly, in turn, played the great pianist and composers Pr?ludes for his funeral at the Madeleine? The abundance of details, we should add, does nothing to obscure the architectural clarity of this book. La Fl?te harmonique

Now Ms. Ochse has succeeded in producing still another landmark work.... Although the work is extraordinarily well documented, the prose retains a narrative quality throughout, at times even taking on the character of good storytelling. The American Organist

Orpha Ochse, Professor Emerita at Whittier College, is author of The History of the Organ in the United States (Indiana University Press). She is well known as a teacher, lecturer, recitalist, and church musician.

ORPHA OCHSE, Professor Emerita of Music at Whittier College, is author of The History of the Organ in the United States (another Indiana University Press paperback). She is well known as a teacher, church musician, recitalist, and lecturer.

Preface
Acknowledgments

I. Prelude: Music for a Revolution

Part One: Performers and Programs

II. In the Wake of the Storm: 1800-1809
III. Years of Rebuilding: 1810-29
IV. The Romantic Dawn: The 1830s
V. Contrasts, Conflicts, and Conquests: The 1840s
VI. Mid-Century Masters and Their Programs
VII. New Horizons: The 1860s
VIII. Tragedy to Triumph: The 1870s
IX. Renaissance Achieved: The 1880s
X. Years of Fulfillment: The 1890s

Part Two: The Organist as Church Muscian

XI. Historical Background
XII. Orglã’