A Directory of Composers
for Organ

by Dr. John Henderson

Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music 


Director of Music at Wroughton Parish Church, Swindon, Wiltshire.

(Site index)

Much enlarged and revised 3rd Edition 2005

(in 2007 also translated into Korean)

(Awarded the 2006 C. B. Oldman Prize by the International Association of Music Libraries U.K & Ireland for "an outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference or music librarianship by an author resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland")

(five journal reviews now available)

Click here for FREE additional information to update the book (pages last updated 6th May 2008)

3300  images / portraits of composers (last updated 26th June 2007, 143 images added - 1560 more await processing)

The book

ISBN 0 9528050 2 2

 Sample pages of 2005 edition

the 1000 pages include

17112 composers from 106 countries with full worklists of music for solo and organ with instruments (or orchestra)

872  women composers

Now with full dates & places of birth / death

Revised biographies

Listing of unpublished works

Chronological list of Parisian titulaires

1400+  publishers of organ music

The history & content of UK organ recitals 1880-1930

Please note that the 2nd edition 2000 ISBN 0952805014 is now sold out


Site Index

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Sample pages of 2005 edition

Book ordering information  

UK retail sales

  USA / Scandinavian countries and Germany / Italy
 

Trade sales


For reviews of the 1st Edition 1996           For reviews of the 2nd Edition 2000

For reviews of the 3rd Edition 2005

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Publishers of Organ Music on the WWW

There are currently 711 publishers of organ music with web-sites and/or e-mail addresses.
Links to publishers (last updated 26th June 2007)
Parisian organists from the 13th C to 21st C - downloadable as a 16 page booklet (Last revised March 2001)
The new edition contains a much enlarged, corrected and revised version of this listing.

RSCM home page    or    RSCM Library

The Organ Web Ring

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The book is distributed in the UK by

Royal School of Church Music

RSCM Music Direct, SCM-Canterbury Press, St. Mary's Plain, Norwich NR3 3BR, United Kingdom

tel:  +44 (0)845 021 7726  fax: +44 (0)845 021 8826

e: musicdirect@rscm.com, WWW: www.rscm.com/shop


A Korean Translation (1500 pages) is also available from the Joonang Art Music Publishing Company

I would greatly value extra information and any corrections from readers of my book.
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John at his organ (before rebuilding)

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