The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the growth of a unique relationship between the French organ and the music written for it. Until recently, ho

Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrume

This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organ and its music. It examines in turn the instrument, the player and the repertoire. The early cha

Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works)

A radical new approach to French Baroque organ music in which developments in musical style are coupled to performance practice.