Encyclopedia - Organist: Encyclopedia - Organist
An organist is a musician who plays the organ, whether pipe or electronic. In the United States there is a national organisation called t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organist: Encyclopedia Ii - Organist - Classical And Church Organists
Worldwide, the greatest number of organists are principally involved in church music, due to the vital role that the organ plays in tradi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organist: Encyclopedia Ii - Organist - Organists In Popular Music
There are many organists employed in the production of popular and jazz music. In the United States most of them play the Hammond organ, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Guild Of Organists: Encyclopedia - American Guild Of Organists
The American Guild of Organists, or AGO, is a national organization of church and concert organists in the USA. It is divided into region...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Étienne Méhul: Encyclopedia - Étienne Méhul
Etienne Henri (or Nicolas) Méhul (June 24, 1763 - October 18, 1817), was a French composer. Étienne Méhul - Life and Work. He was bor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles-marie Widor: Encyclopedia - Charles-marie Widor
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor [Pronounced: shärl märē' vēdōr'] (February 21, 1844 – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, compo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barry Rose: Encyclopedia - Barry Rose
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carlo Curley: Encyclopedia - Carlo Curley
Carlo Curley (b. 1952, North Carolina, USA) is a flamboyant and popular concert organist, sometimes characterised as the "Pavarotti of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Lloyd Webber: Encyclopedia - William Lloyd Webber
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) was an organist and composer. He was Director of the London College of Music from 1964 unti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1510: Encyclopedia - 1510
1510 - Events. Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. Formation of the Holy League to defend the Italian States. Pet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1669: Encyclopedia - 1669
1669 - Births. February 2 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732) May 26 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1325: Encyclopedia - 1325
1325 - Events. January 7:Alfonso IV becomes the King of Portugal. Muhammed Tughlaq succeeds his father Ghiyas al-Din Tughlaq as Sultan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Luchesi: Encyclopedia - Andrea Luchesi
Andrea Luca Luchesi (May 23, 1741, Motta di Livenza - March 21, 1801, Bonn), was an Italian composer. Andrea Luchesi - Biography. Andre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christopher Tye: Encyclopedia - Christopher Tye
Christopher Tye (around 1505 - around 1572) was an English composer and organist. He studied at Cambridge University, and became a Doctor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Boyce: Encyclopedia - William Boyce
William Boyce (September 1, 1711 – February 7, 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virgil Fox: Encyclopedia - Virgil Fox
Virgil Fox (May 3, 1912–October 25, 1980) was a renowned organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unity Larry Young: Encyclopedia - Unity Larry Young
Unity is an album by jazz organist Larry Young, released on the Blue Note label. While not free jazz, the album features innovative exper...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - César Franck: Encyclopedia - César Franck
César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist. César Franck - Biograp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alice Coltrane: Encyclopedia - Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (b. 1937) is an American jazz pianist, organist, and harpist. Coltrane was born Alice McLeod on 27 August 1937 in Detroit,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Worker-communist Party Of Iran: Encyclopedia Ii - Worker-communist Party Of Iran - Participate In Diffrent Organisation
Since establishment of the party, WPI members and Cadres has created and joined so many Organisations and Campaigns in different issues. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Worker-communist Party Of Iran: Encyclopedia Ii - Worker-communist Party Of Iran - Sister Parties
Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq which was formed in 2004 after the major split in WPI is a sister party to WPI. LWPI Current Leade...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Keyboardist: Encyclopedia Ii - Keyboardist - Notable Keyboardists
Note: this section lists people who predominantly played electric keyboards as detailed above. Keyboardist - Rock Pop and Electronica. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Keyboardist: Encyclopedia Ii - Keyboardist - Notable Keyboardists
Note: this section lists people who predominantly played electric keyboards as detailed above. Keyboardist - Rock Pop and Electronica. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Pipe Organs
See the main article at pipe organ for details on history and construction. The pipe organ is the grandest musical instrument in size and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Worker-communist Party Of Iran: Encyclopedia Ii - Worker-communist Party Of Iran - Current Leadership And Organs
The Currenet leaders and organs of WPI Are: Leader, the Secretary of Centeral Committee: Hamid Taghvaee Central Committee: chosen in Fift...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Worker-communist Party Of Iran: Encyclopedia Ii - Worker-communist Party Of Iran - Publications And Papers
WPI main paper is “Anternasional” Which is in Persian and currently publishd on Fridays in 4 page or more. Communist Youth Organisati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Reed Organs
Prior to the development of electric and electronic organs, the only alternative to the pipe organ was the reed organ, which generated it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Electronic Organs
See the main article at electronic organ for more details and history. Since the 1930s, pipeless electric instruments have been available...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Electric And Electronic Organs
See the main article electronic organ for more details and history. Since the 1930s, pipeless electric instruments have been available to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Reed Organs
The reed organ was the other main type of organ prior to the development of electronic organs. It generated its sounds using reeds simila...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Organ Music
Organ music - Classical music. See the main article at organ repertoire for details on specific countries and styles. The organ has had...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Similar Instruments
Other instruments which are played from a reservoir of gas and have separate tone-producing mechanisms for each pitch include: the accor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organ Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Organ Music - Pipe Organs
See the main article at pipe organ for more details and the history of the pipe organ. The original organ was the pipe organ, and many or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Étienne Méhul: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Étienne Méhul: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Gabrieli: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Gabrieli - Life
Details on Gabrieli's early life are sketchy. He was probably a native of Venice, and may have been a pupil of Adrian Willaert at St. Mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hieronymus Praetorius: Encyclopedia Ii - Hieronymus Praetorius - Life
He was born in Hamburg, and spent most of his life there. He studied organ early with his father (Jacob Praetorius, also a composer), aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tarquinio Merula: Encyclopedia Ii - Tarquinio Merula - Life
He was born in Cremona, where he probably received early musical training, and where he was first employed as an organist. In 1616 he too...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Bruhns: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Bruhns - Life
He initially learned music from his father Paul Bruhns (1640-89?), who was the organist at Schwabstedt; he later studied composition and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Music At The Temple Church
The church has had a number of famous organists, including the blind organist and composer John Stanley (appointed by the Inner Temple in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Temple Church: Encyclopedia Ii - Temple Church - Music At The Temple Church
The church has had a number of famous organists, including the blind organist and composer John Stanley (appointed by the Inner Temple in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robert Fripp: Encyclopedia Ii - Robert Fripp - Biography
Robert Fripp - Early career. Fripp's earliest professional work began in 1967, when he responded to an ad looking for a singing organis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anton Bruckner: Encyclopedia Ii - Anton Bruckner - Biography
Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden to a schoolmaster and organist father with whom he first studied music. He worked for a few years as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Francesco Cavalli: Encyclopedia Ii - Francesco Cavalli - Life
He became a singer at St Mark's in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella. He i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conrad Paumann: Encyclopedia Ii - Conrad Paumann - Life
He was born in Nuremberg to a family of craftsmen. His musical ability must have become apparent early, for he received an excellent trai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudio Merulo: Encyclopedia Ii - Claudio Merulo - Life
Little is known about his early life except that he studied in Correggio with Tuttovale Menon, a famous madrigalist who worked also by Fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Annibale Padovano: Encyclopedia Ii - Annibale Padovano - Life
Padovano was born in Padua — hence his name — but little is known about his early life. He first appears at St. Mark's in Venice on N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacques Buus: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacques Buus - Life
Buus was probably born in Ghent around 1500, though details of his early life, as is the case with most Renaissance composers, are scanty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Don Lorenzo Perosi: Encyclopedia Ii - Don Lorenzo Perosi - Biography
Despite many sources who erroneously give December 20th as Perosi's birthdate (include Grove), Mario Rinaldi, in the definitive biography...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Pachelbel: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Pachelbel - Life
Pachelbel was born in Nuremberg and baptized September 1, 1653, which strongly indicates birth in August. He received early musical train...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-philippe Rameau: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-philippe Rameau - Life And Work
Rameau's father was the organist at the cathedral of Dijon, and had his son practicing harpsichord at the earliest age possible. However,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Herbert Howells: Encyclopedia Ii - Herbert Howells - Biography
Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, and was the youngest of six children born to Oliver and Elizabeth Howells. His father was an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johann Fux: Encyclopedia Ii - Johann Fux - Life
Fux was born to a peasant family in Hirtenfeld in Styria. Relatively little is known about his early life, but likely he went to nearby G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muzio Clementi: Encyclopedia Ii - Muzio Clementi - Biography
Muzio was born in Rome in 1752, the first of seven children, to Nicolò Clementi, a highly respected silversmith and Roman by heritage, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geena Davis: Encyclopedia Ii - Geena Davis - Biography
Geena Davis - Early life. Davis was born on January 21, 1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts to William and Lucille Davis (a civil engineer ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gioseffo Zarlino: Encyclopedia Ii - Gioseffo Zarlino - Life
Zarlino was born in Chioggia, near Venice. His early education was with the Franciscans, and he later joined the order himself. In 1536 h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georg Muffat: Encyclopedia Ii - Georg Muffat - Life
He was born in Megeve, Savoy, (now in France), and of Scottish descent. He studied in Paris with Jean Baptiste Lully between 1663 and 166...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonio Squarcialupi: Encyclopedia Ii - Antonio Squarcialupi - Life
He was born in Florence to a butcher with the family name of Giovanni; however he took the name of Squarcialupi, a well-known family from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alvechurch: Encyclopedia Ii - Alvechurch - Architecture
The church is St. Laurence's, and dates from 1239. The church is on high ground, and was probably the site of an earlier Mercian church, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stefano Landi: Encyclopedia Ii - Stefano Landi - Life
He was born in Rome. In 1595 he joined the Collegio Germanico in Rome as a boy soprano, and he may have studied with Asprilio Pacelli. La...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wandervogel: Encyclopedia Ii - Wandervogel - History
After the first world war, the leaders returned disillusioned from the war. The same was true for leaders of German Scouting. So both mov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Scheidemann: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Scheidemann - Music And Influence
Scheidemann was renowned as an organist and composer, as evidenced by the wide distribution of his works; more organ music by Scheidemann...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malcolm Williamson: Encyclopedia Ii - Malcolm Williamson - Biography
Williamson was born in Sydney and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Eugene Goossens. In 1950 he moved to London where he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Nigeria: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Nigeria - Classical Music
In the 20th century, Nigeria produced a number of classical composers; these include Fela Sowande, Joshua Uzoigwe, Akin Euba, and Godwin ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Catherine Emmerich: Encyclopedia Ii - Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life
Her parents were very poor. At twelve she was bound out to a farmer, and later was a seamstress for several years. She was sent to study ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Hovhaness: Encyclopedia Ii - Alan Hovhaness - Compositional Career
He became interested in Armenian culture and music in 1940, as the organist for the St. James Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown, Mas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hans Leo Hassler: Encyclopedia Ii - Hans Leo Hassler - Biography
Hassler most likely studied music as a boy with his father, an organist. In 1584, like many German composers of the time, he went to Ital...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heinrich Schütz: Encyclopedia Ii - Heinrich Schütz - Life
Schütz was born in Köstritz; his musical talents were discovered by Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1599. After being a choir-boy he went o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giacomo Puccini: Encyclopedia Ii - Giacomo Puccini - Life
Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy into a family with a long history of music. After the death of his father when he was only five years ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina - Life
Palestrina spent most of his career in Rome. Documents suggest he first visited the Eternal City in 1537, when he is listed as a choriste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electronic Organ: Encyclopedia Ii - Electronic Organ - The 1950s And 1960s
Electronic organ - The spinet organ. Following World War II, most electronic home organs were built in a configuration usually called a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Domenico Scarlatti: Encyclopedia Ii - Domenico Scarlatti - Life And Career
Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy, the sixth of ten children and a younger brother to Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, also a musicia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Effects Pedal: Encyclopedia Ii - Effects Pedal - Effects Pedals On Other Instruments
Many other musical instruments, among them the piano, pipe organ, drums, and harp, also make use of pedals to achieve tonal, dynamic, or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Léo Delibes: Encyclopedia Ii - Léo Delibes - Career
Starting in 1847, Delibes studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire as a student of Adolphe Adam. A year later, he also began taking...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Montpellier: Encyclopedia Ii - Montpellier - Famous Inhabitants Of Montpellier
Montpellier was the birthplace of: Antoine Jerome Balard (1802-1876), chemist Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), Impressionist painter Alex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luciano Berio: Encyclopedia Ii - Luciano Berio - Biography
Berio was born in Oneglia (now Borgo d'Oneglia, a small village 3 km N of Imperia). He was taught the piano by his father and g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lowell Mason: Encyclopedia Ii - Lowell Mason - Life
Mason was born and grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, but spent the first part of his adulthood in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electronic Organ: Encyclopedia Ii - Electronic Organ - The 1950s And 1960s
Electronic organ - The spinet organ. Following World War II, most electronic home organs were built in a configuration usually called a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emilio De' Cavalieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Emilio De' Cavalieri - Life
Cavalieri was born in Rome of an aristocratic and musical family. He probably received his early training there, and was working as an or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ernest M. Skinner: Encyclopedia Ii - Ernest M. Skinner - Work
Skinner almost certainly regarded his masterpieces to be more organic in nature, not necessarily lending to the whims of what later refor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esztergom Basilica: Encyclopedia Ii - Esztergom Basilica - The Organ
The renovation and enlargement of the organ started in the 1980s, after extended preparations, and it is currently in progress. It is sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Legrenzi: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Legrenzi - Life
He was born in Clusone, near Bergamo, and probably received his early training in Clusone. He served as organist to Santa Maria Maggiore ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gilles Binchois: Encyclopedia Ii - Gilles Binchois - Life
He was probably from Mons, the son of Jean and Johanna de Binche, who may have been from the nearby town of Binche. His father was a coun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carnival Of Souls: Encyclopedia Ii - Carnival Of Souls - Plot Overview
The film tells the story of Mary Henry, a talented young organist (Hilligoss). At the film’s beginning, the car in which Mary is riding...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brakes Band: Encyclopedia Ii - Brakes Band - Biography
Brakes were formed when Tom (guitar) and Alex White (drums) of The Electric Soft Parade saw Eamon Hamilton (vocals, guitar) perform a sol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Tomkins: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Tomkins - Life
He was born in St Davids in Pembrokeshire. His father was also a musician, "vicar choral" of the cathedral of St Davids and organist ther...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Église De La Madeleine: Encyclopedia Ii - Église De La Madeleine - Today
The Madeleine is affiliated with a Benedictine abbey, and masses and the most fashionable weddings in Paris are still celebrated here. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Art Of Fugue: Encyclopedia Ii - The Art Of Fugue - The Music
The piece is written in parts score without instrument designation, although all of it fits the range of commonly available keyboard inst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The International Noise Conspiracy: Encyclopedia Ii - The International Noise Conspiracy - Later Recordings
Between 2002 and 2003, the Up For Sale EP (Sympathy For The Record Industry) and Bigger Cages, Longer Chains EP (2003, Burning Heart/Epit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theatre Organ: Encyclopedia Ii - Theatre Organ - Technical
As in a traditional pipe organ, a theatre organ uses pressurized air to produce musical tones. However, this is where the similarity ends...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walt Disney Concert Hall: Encyclopedia Ii - Walt Disney Concert Hall - Concert Organ
The design of the hall included a large concert organ, completed in 2004, which was used in a special concert for the 2004 National Conve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wicks Organ Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Wicks Organ Company - History
The Wicks Organ company was founded in the early 1900s in a small jewelry and watch making store in Highland. The local Catholic priest h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peter Schreier: Encyclopedia Ii - Peter Schreier - Early Life
Schreier was born in Meissen, Saxony, and spent his first years in the small village of Gauernitz, near Meissen, where his father was a t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Percy Dearmer: Encyclopedia Ii - Percy Dearmer - Hymnology
Working with renowned composer Ralph Vaughan Williams as musical editor, Dearmer published The English Hymnal in 1906. In collaboration w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Bull Composer: Encyclopedia Ii - John Bull Composer - Life
He was probably born in Radnorshire in Wales. In 1573 he joined the choir at Hereford cathedral, and the next year joined the Children of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Farmer: Encyclopedia Ii - John Farmer - John Farmer 1570-1605
John Farmer (1570? – 1605) was an English composer, mainly of madrigals. He is probably one of the less well-known composers of the Eng...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Church Of Satan: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Church Of Satan
Church of Satan Founded in 1966 in San Francisco, CA by Anton Szandor LaVey, author of the Satanic Bible, founded the church in 1966 a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Organist: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Organist
  Organist To see an organist in your dreams, denotes a friend will cause you much inconvenience from hasty action. For a young...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organist: Encyclopedia Ii - Organist - Famous Organists
Notable classical organists of today include: Marie-Claire Alain, Jennifer Bate, Diane Meredith Belcher, Kevin Bowyer, Carlo Curley, Ken ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organist: Encyclopedia Ii - Organist - Famous Organists
Notable classical organists of today include: Marie-Claire Alain, Diane Meredith Belcher, Kevin Bowyer, Carlo Curley, Ken Cowan, Eberhard...   » Read the article