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As well as citing the most regarded composers of music for the pipe organ, this list includes important anonymous and early music sources, as well as composers from under-researched regions and countries.
Organ music was almost exclusively based on learned contrapuntal, exemplified by the Fantasia ("Fancy"), as well as works based on contrapuntal treatment of chant. Composers well known for their choral works wrote organ music, for example Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons.
May 14, 2024 · Jehan Alain – Litanies. If you like your organ music loud, crunchy and brilliant, French organist and composer Jehan Alain will make you very happy. His 1937 work Litanies begins with a short plainsong phrase before an explosion of harmonic punch colour, drawing on the full power of the instrument.
- Johann B.J.M. Reger (1873-1916) Reger was a German composer and organist who lived from 1873 to 1926. He is known for hisceds work in the classical music genre, specifically organ music—for which he composed over 200 pieces.
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a famous organist and composer who lived from 1839 to 1901. He is most famous for his work on the organ, which he used to create one of the most important collections of organ music ever written, "The Theme and Variations."
- Cesar Frank (1817-1870) Cesar Frank was a Belgian composer and organist who is best known for his organ music. He was born in Liege in 1817 and he first began playing the organ at the age of nine.
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian composer, organist, and harpsichordist. In addition to his daring use of chromaticism, he is most famous for his development of the chitarrone/archlute.
Inspired by the classical world, Renaissance composers fit words and music together in an increasingly dramatic fashion, as seen in the development of the Italian madrigal and later the operatic works of Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643).
Jul 14, 2017 · Mendelssohn and and Josef Rheinberger composed extensively for organ, particularly in the sonata form, blending the tonalities of Romanticism with the contrapuntal style of Bach and his like. However, during this period it was largely France that held claim to innovation in the organ world.
Many composers these days trained with the orchestration textbooks by Samuel Adler (himself an accomplished composer) or Alfred Blatter (among others); two classic texts on orchestration by famous composers of the past are those by Hector Berlioz and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
