Essay Collections

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

Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth (Hard cover) - by Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger

Organ Historical Society

Virgil Fox (The Dish): An Irreverent Biography of the Great American Organist based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth (Hard cover) - by Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger

$40.00

Matthias Schneider and Jürgen Heering, Buxtehude-Studien, Band 1

Organ Historical Society

Matthias Schneider and Jürgen Heering, Buxtehude-Studien, Band 1

$30.00

This autobiography by Alfred Hollins gives a flowing account of the life of this eminent blind concert organist, pianist, and composer; who was soloist with the Berlin, London, and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tracing his life from his birth in Hull in 1865, and describing his three North American Tours, and those in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Alfred Hollins, 1936, reprinted 2018 by Forgotten Books; softcover, 478 pgs.

Banks Music Publications

A Blind Musician Looks Back: An Autobiography - by Alfred Hollins

$34.95

OHS Press, 2016; 276 pgs, softcover

Organ Historical Society

OHS Philadelphia 2016 Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Anthology - compiled by Rollin Smith

$34.95

Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music - by James E. Frazier, softcover

Univ of Rochester Press

Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music - by James E. Frazier, softcover

$39.95