French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor

By: Peterson, William J.

Essays by prominent scholars and organists examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified.

Nineteenth-century French organ music attracts an ever-increasing number of performers and devotees. The music of Cesar Franck and other distinguished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460712
• ISBN13: 9781580460712
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"