An organist is a musician who plays the organ, whether pipe or electronic. In the United States there is a national organisation called the American Guild of Organists (AGO). Comparable bodies in other countries include the Royal College of Organists (RCO) in the United Kingdom and the Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO). All these institutions are oriented toward the organist involved in classical music rather than popular music. Organist - Classical and church organists. Worldwide, the great ...

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There are many organists employed in the production of popular and jazz music. In the United States most of them play the Hammond organ, and many are classically trained, often in piano rather than organ. In England and Japan, one of the most popular series of instruments is the Yamaha Electone; while Electones of recent decades are more properly characterized as digital synthesizers rather than as organs, the player interface, and the skills and coordination required to play, mean that it i ...

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The American Guild of Organists, or AGO, is a national organization of church and concert organists in the USA. It is divided into regions and chapters and publishes a monthly magazine, The American Organist. Membership is not limited to professional organists, but is open to anybody with an interest in organ music. The AGO holds national conventions in even-numbered years and regional conventions in odd-numbered years. It sponsors a number of education programs, including the "Pipe Organ Encounters," whic ...

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Etienne Henri (or Nicolas) Méhul (June 24, 1763 - October 18, 1817), was a French composer. Étienne Méhul - Life and Work. He was born at Givet in Ardennes. His father being too poor to give him a regular musical education, his first lessons came from a poor blind organist of Givet; yet such was his aptitude that, when ten years old, he was appointed organist of the convent of the Récollets. In 1775 a German musician and organist, Wilhelm Hauser, was engaged for the monastery of Lavaldieu, ...

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Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor [Pronounced: shärl märē' vēdōr'] (February 21, 1844 – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for the Toccata from his Symphony for Organ No. 5, which is often played at the end of wedding ceremonies. Widor was born in Lyon, and initially studied music there with his father, who was himself an organist. He got his first major job as an organist at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris in 1870, a post he held for the next 67 years. In 1890 he took over from Cesar Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conser ...

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Barry Michael Rose (born 24 May 1934) is a renowned choir trainer and organist. He is best remembered for conducting the choir of St Paul's Cathedral at the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer and HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) at St Paul's Cathedral in London on Wednesday 29 July 1981. Born in Chingford, England, Barry Rose grew up accompanying the choir of his local church. After a spell as organist at St. Andrew's, Kingsbury, at the age of 25 he became the youngest cathedral orga ...

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Carlo Curley (b. 1952, North Carolina, USA) is a flamboyant and popular concert organist, sometimes characterised as the "Pavarotti of the organ". Curley was born into a musical family and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. He studied organ with Virgil Fox and Sir George Thalben-Ball. Curley was famously the first classical organist to give a solo organ recital at the White House, and he has also played for several European heads of state. He has toured extensively through ...

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William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) was an organist and composer. He was Director of the London College of Music from 1964 until his death. William Lloyd Webber's music has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, perhaps owing to the fame of his sons, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Lloyd Webber. Andrew's Requiem was composed in memory of his father. ...

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1510 - Events. Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. Formation of the Holy League to defend the Italian States. Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch. 1510 - Births. March 30 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (died 1566) April 2 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (died 1550) July 22 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (died 1537) October 6 - Rowland Taylor, Englis ...

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1669 - Births. February 2 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732) May 26 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722) August 24 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747) 1669 - Deaths. February 23 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600) March 10 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615) May 14 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601) May 16 - Pietro da Cortona, It ...

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1325 - Events. January 7:Alfonso IV becomes the King of Portugal. Muhammed Tughlaq succeeds his father Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi. Tenochtitlan founded. 1325 - Births. William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (died 1352) Francesco Landini, Florentine organist and composer (died 1397) Prince Narinaga, Japanese shogun (died 1338) Nicolas Oresme, French philosopher (died 1382) 1325 - ...

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Andrea Luca Luchesi (May 23, 1741, Motta di Livenza - March 21, 1801, Bonn), was an Italian composer. Andrea Luchesi - Biography. Andrea Luchesi grew up in his native town, receiving musical and general education from his elder brother, a priest, public tutor and organist. At the age of 15 he moved to Venice. The protection of nobleman Jseppo Morosini enabled him to study with eminent musicians (the most well known of them being Baldassare Galuppi). His career in Venice develops quickl ...

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Christopher Tye (around 1505 - around 1572) was an English composer and organist. He studied at Cambridge University, and became a Doctor of Music both there and at Oxford. He was choirmaster of Ely Cathedral from about 1543, resigning his post in 1561. He may have been music teacher to Edward VI. His Latin church music includes masses (notably one based on the song "The Western Wynde", also the basis of masses by John Taverner and John Sheppard) and psalm settings. He also composed works in English for the Church of England, including services and anthems, and pieces fo ...

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William Boyce (September 1, 1711 – February 7, 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century. Born in London, Boyce was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral before studying music with Maurice Greene after his voice broke. His first professional appointment came in 1734 when he got a job as an organist. He went on to take a number of similar posts before being appointed Master of the King's Musick in 175 ...

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Virgil Fox (May 3, 1912–October 25, 1980) was a renowned organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for audiences more familiar with Rock and Roll music, staged complete with light shows. Born in Princeton, Illinois, the son of Miles and Birdie Fox, it was soon clear that he was a child prodigy. Fox began playing the organ for church services at the age of ten, and made a concert debut in 1926 ...

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Unity is an album by jazz organist Larry Young, released on the Blue Note label. While not free jazz, the album features innovative experimentation. The album is Young's second as band leader, following on from Into Somethin'. Three of the six tracks were composed by Woody Shaw; "Zoltan", "The Moontrane", and "Beyond All Limits". "If" is a Joe Henderson composition, "Monk's Dream" is a Thelonious Monk composition, and "Softly, As in a ...

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César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist. César Franck - Biography. Franck was born in Liège. His father had ambitions for him to become a concert pianist, and he studied at the conservatoire in Liège before going to the Paris Conservatoire in 1837. Upon leaving in 1842 he briefly returned to Belgium, but went back to Paris in 1844 and remained there for the rest of his life. His decision to give up a career as a virtuoso led to stra ...

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Alice Coltrane (b. 1937) is an American jazz pianist, organist, and harpist. Coltrane was born Alice McLeod on 27 August 1937 in Detroit, Michigan. She studied classical music, and was given piano lessons by Bud Powell. She began playing jazz as a professional in Detroit, with her own trio and as a duo with vibist Terry Pollard. From 1962 to 1963 she played with Terry Gibbs's quartet, when she met John Coltrane, with whose group she played piano from 1965 until his death in 1967, and whom she married in 1966. They had three ...

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Since establishment of the party, WPI members and Cadres has created and joined so many Organisations and Campaigns in different issues. This organistions are usually very close to party. This are as follows: Communist Youth Organistaion which is youth wing of WPI and is part of Party but have its own structures. CYO publish a weekly paper in Persian. (named “Javanane Komonist”) Organisation for Women’s Liberation is close to WPI and is struggling for Womens ...

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