French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor

Nineteenth-century French organ music attracts an ever-increasing number of performers and devotees. The music of Cesar Franck and other distinguished composers-Boëly Guilmant Widor-and the impact upon this repertoire of the organ-building achievements of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll are here explored through stylistic analysis the study of the compositional process and the exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance practice traditions developed and became codified. New consideration is also given to the political and cultural contexts within which Franck and other French organist-composers worked. Contributors: Kimberley Marshall William J. Peterson Benjamin van Wye Craig Cramer Jesse E. Eschbach Karen Hastings-Deans Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlasi Daniel Roth Edward Zimmerman Lawrence Archbold Rollin Smith