Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium by Ochse, Orpha - 2000

Indiana University Press. New. 2000. Paperback. 0253214238 . This specific paperback book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "From the catastrophes of the French Revolution to a Golden Age of organ culture. "One simply must recommend this highly coherent and well-illustrated book...."-L’Orgue; "Even the well-informed reader will find a number of surprises. Who knows, for example, that Fryderyk Chopin played the organ for a funeral service and that Lefébure-Wély, in turn, played the great pianist and composer’s Préludes for his funeral at the Madeleine? The abundance of details, we should add, does nothing to obscure the architectural clarity of this book." -La Flûte harmonique; "Now Ms. Ochse has succeeded in producing still another landmark work.... Although the work is extraordinarily well documented, the prose retains a narrative quality throughout, at times even taking on the character of good storytelling." -The American Organist; Orpha Ochse, Professor Emerita at Whittier College, is author of The History of the Organ in the United States (Indiana University Press). She is well known as a teacher, lecturer, recitalist, and church musician."; 6.14 X 0.6 X 9.21 inches; 288 pages .