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OHS Philadelphia 2026 Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

Organ Historical Society

OHS Philadelphia 2026 Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

$30.00

With Rollin Smith’s Lost Pipe Organs of America, the Organ Historical Society celebrates the Golden Age of pipe organ building and beyond. Every facet of American life, not only in worship, but in concert halls, auditoriums, universities, hotels, world’s fairs, and expositions, featured a notable instrument, now lost to history.

Lost Pipe Organs of America range from that of the Boston National Peace Jubilee of 1869; New York’s Chickering, Mendelssohn, and Carnegie Halls; Hotel Astor and Waldorf-Astoria; the E. & G.G. Hook at Louisville’s Southern Exposition of 1883; Chicago’s Steinway Hall and Stadium; auditoriums in Denver, Washington, Detroit, and Chicago; the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition’s Festival Hall, and Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall. A galaxy of America’s organbuilders include Hook, Jardine, Roosevelt, Skinner, Farrand & Votey, Aeolian, Möller, Austin, Estey, Barton, Wurlitzer, and Aeolian-Skinner. Hundreds of illustrations are what you have come to expect, and footnotes are, as usual, not to be missed.
2026, Organ Historical Society

Organ Historical Society

LOST PIPE ORGANS OF AMERICA

$110.00

The OHS Press announces The Great Organs of the Churches of Paris by Félix Raugel. Published in French in 1927, this book has been the classic study of the great organs of the French capital. Now, for the first time, it is available in an English translation by Rollin Smith. Fifty chapters discuss these famous organs in Paris and its environs through 600 years, from the 15th to the 20th centuries, with a history of each, one or more stoplists, and copious illustrations. Free shipping in the USA; now shipping

Organ Historical Society

The Great Organs of the Churches of Paris by Félix Raugel - translated and edited by Dr. Rollin Smith

$44.95

This is an extremely important study which brings together valuable musicological research and practical experimentation in a unique way -- every organist should read it! CHOIR & ORGAN, September 2004

2004; Univ of Rochester Press, 224 pgs

Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide - by Joel Speerstra

$129.95

This is a new edition of Frederic Stiven’s early study, In the Organ Lofts of Paris. Frederic Stiven graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in 1907 and subsequently served on the faculty. For two years, from 1909 to 1911, he studied with Alexandre Guilmant in Paris—indeed, Stiven was his last pupil—and each Sunday he visited important churches in the French capital. In 1923, he published In the Organ Lofts of Paris. 2024, OHS Press. 175 pgs.

In the Organ Lofts of Paris by Frederic B. Stiven - annotated and edited by Rollin Smith

$39.99

Continuing with Butz's extensive material on the life, work and musical output of Dieterich Buxtehude, this small volume contains essays and studies by Michael Hundt, Michael Belotti, Jurgen Heering, Matthias Lotzmann, Magdalena Andrulewicz and Wolf Kalipp. In German; 2023, Dr. J. Butz Musikverlag, 124 pages, softcover

Buxtehude-Studien, Vol 5 (2023), Matthias Schneider and Jürgen Heering

$30.00

The 2023 combined efforts of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Organ Historical Society are united in this program book from the Festival of Pipes, July1-7 in Toronto, Canada. Over 80 pages of instruments by a variety of builders, and a wide variety of Canadian and American artists. Compiled and edited by Dr. Christopher Anderson, photos by Len Levasseur. You will want this for your library of informative and beautiful OHS handbooks. Limited quantities; order early.

Toronto 2023 Festival of Pipes Program Book

MSRP: $27.95

Was: $27.95

Now: $20.00

AIO 2022 Convention Handbook

AIO 2022 Convention Handbook

$45.00

Born in 1962, Olivier Latry is one of the top organists of the present-day world. Appointed organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris at the age of 23, his fame has spread beyond Paris as a globally acclaimed concert organist, but he is also a sought-after pedagogue at the Paris Conservatoire as well as at international master classes. In dialogue with music editor and author Stéphane Friédérich, he covers a wide range of topics, revealing both his profound knowledge, and his personal convictions and confessions, always passionately expressed. The reader gains sound information about the self-image of the liturgical organist, organ improvisation, organ building issues, organ composers and compositions, world premieres, competitions, CD recordings, organ studies, popularization of the organ and its music, and much more. In addition to biographical details, the book contains valuable information about ‘his’ instrument at Notre Dame as well as his important predecessors in the organ loft. A highly readable book, which vastly widens our knowledge, especially of the French organ world, but also occasionally beyond it. Numerous illustrations.
Dr. J. Butz, 2022, 156 pgs, softcover

Butz

At the Organ of Notre-Dame; Conversations with Stéphane Friédérich, by Olivier Latry

$24.95

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