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Last Updated: 26-Sep-2012

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This guide identifies organ resources in Stanford's collections as well as links to outside resources.

Printed organ music

Significant published sets

L'œuvre d'orgue / de Jehan Alain.
Nouvelle éd. / Paris : A. Leduc, c1971.
Music » Scores » M7 .A317 O2 1971 T.1
Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Hrsg. von Heinz Lohmann.
Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Härtel 1969-1997.
Music » Scores » M7 .B11 W9 L8 V.1
Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher freien Orgelwerke = New edition of the complete free organ works / Dietrich Buxtehude ; herausgegeben von Christoph Albrecht.
Kassel ; New York : Bärenreiter, c1994-c1998.
Music » Scores » M7 .B99 A3 1994 BD.1
Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Orgelwerke = New edition of the complete organ works / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; herausgegeben von Christoph Albrecht.
Kassel ; New York : Bärenreiter, c1993-c1994.
Music » Scores » M7 .M53 A3 1993 V.1
Livre d'orgue : sept pièces pour orgue / Olivier Messiaen.
Paris : Leduc, [2008], c1953.
Music » Scores » M11 .M58 L7 2008

Note: Messiaen's organ works are listed separately in SearchWorks.

Sämtliche Orgelwerke = Complete organ works / Max Reger ; nach der Reger-Gesamtausgabe, Hans Klotz ; durchgesehen von Martin Weyer ; mit einer Einführung von Hans Haselböck.
Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Härtel, c1987-
Music » Scores » M7 .R33 K6 1987 V.1

Browse the music stacks

M 6 Miscellaneous collections
M 7 Collections of original compositions
M 8 Sonatas
M 8.5 Symphonies
M 9 Suites; variation forms (passacaglias, chaconnes, etc.)
M 10 Fugues with or without preludes
M 11 Pieces
M 12-13 Arrangements
M 14 Accompaniments for psalms, hymns, etc.
M 14.3 Liturgical music
M 14.4 Collections for special seasons and occasions
M 15-19 Reed organ music
M 180 Organ duets
M 182-186 Organ + one other instrument
M 1005 Organ with orchestra
M 1006 Organ with orchestra, orch. part arranged for piano
MT 180 Studies and exercises

Organ recordings

Recommended performances

Chorals pour orgue [sound recording] = Organ chorales = Choräle fr̈ Orgel / J.S. Bach.
West Germany : Erato, p1983.
Music » Recordings » MCD 1843
Organ Recital [electronic resource] : Noehren, Robert - WIDOR, C. / BRAHMS, J. / BACH, J.S. / ALAIN, J. / HINDEMITH, P. / KARG-ELERT, S. / MESSIAEN, O.
Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services Ltd., [2008]
Organ symphony [sound recording] = Symphonie avec orgue = Orgel-Symphonie : No. 3, Op. 78 / Saint-Saëns.
London : London, p1983.
Music » Recordings » MCD 75
The great contest [sound recording] : Bach, Scarlatti, Handel.
Seattle : Loft Recordings, [2001].
Music » Recordings » MCD 7317

Discographies in the Archive of Recorded Sound

Four centuries of organ music : from the Robertsbridge Codex through the baroque era : an annotated discography / Marilou Kratzenstein and Jerald Hamilton.
Detroit : Information Coordinators, c1984.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML156.4 .O6 K89 1984
Organ CDs : a place-name index / [Jo Huddleston].
July 1991 ed. Fleet, Hampshire, England : J. Huddleston, 1991.
ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML156.4 .O6 H884 1991
American organ music on records / compiled by Lois Rowell.
Braintree, Mass. : Organ Literature Foundation, 1976.
ARS » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML156.4 .O6 R88

Browse new recordings

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  1. Beyond the stars [sound recording] : Sacred choral works. Volume II

    Gabriel Jackson. 2012

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24702

  2. Illumine : Christmas at Stanford

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24690

  3. Requiem [sound recording]

    Herbert Howells. 2012

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24294

  4. Selected organ works

    Alexandre P. F. Boely. 2012

    Music » Recordings » MCD 24083

  5. A Concord symphony [sound recording]

    Ives/Brant. Organ symphony / Copland. 2011

    Music » Recordings » MCD 22589

Books and articles

For a thorough introduction to the subject, read the entry on organ in Grove Music online.

See a list of organ periodicals here.

In the reference room:

Repertorium Orgelmusik : Komponisten, Werke, Editionen : 1150-2000 : 57 Länder : eine Auswahl = A bio-bibliographical index of organ music : composers, works, editions : 1150-2000 : 57 countries : a selection = Catalogue bio-bibliographique de musique d'orgue : compositeurs, oeuvres, éditions : 1150-2000 : 57 pays : une sélection / Klaus Beckmann.
3. neu bearbeitete und erw. Aufl. Mainz ; New York : Schott, 2001.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .O6 B4 2001 BD.1
A bibliography of organ music / by W.B. Henshaw.
Portsmouth : Bardon Enterprises, 1996.
SAL3 » Stacks » ML128 .O6 H467 1996
A directory of composers for organ / John Henderson.
Wiltshire, England : [s.n.], c1996.
SAL3 » Stacks » ML128 .O6 H46 1996
Catalogue of music for organ and instruments / James H. Laster.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .O6 L34 2005
Handbuch Orgelmusik : Komponisten, Werke, Interpretation / herausgegeben von Rudolf Faber und Philip Hartmann.
Kassel : Bärenreiter ; Stuttgart : Metzler, c2002.
Music » Reference (Non-circulating) » ML128 .O6 H36 2002

Browse organ books in the music stacks

ML 416 Biographies of organists
ML 424 Instrument manufacturers
ML 549-647 Organ construction; history; music and playing

Organs on YouTube

Robert Huw Morgan performs Benedictus Sit Deus Pater on Stanford's Tudor-style organ.

Robert Huw Morgan performs Bach's Preludium in C on Stanford's Fisk-Nanney organ.

Robert Huw Morgan performs Buxtehude's Praeludium in G minor on Stanford's Fisk-Nanney organ.

Frederick Hohman plays the Nutcracker (excerpt) on Stanford's Murray Harris organ.

Xaver Varnus plays Franck's Prelude, fugue et variation in concert on the great Cavaille-Coll Organ in Saint Sulpice in Paris (pt.1)  (view part 2 here)

Philadelphia's Wanamaker Organ flash mob: Hallelujah chorus.

Flame-throwing ceramic organ.