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Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Dobson Pipe Organ Builders. Photos of instruments in/near Philadelphia by Len Levasseur and Joe Routon

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Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Rieger Orgelbau

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Girard College, Philadelphia - Skinner Organ, Op. 872

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OHS Headquarters, Villanova, PA - Aeolian/Skinner Op. 878

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Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Skinner/Kegg Pipe Organ Builders

Featured Products

Hymn Jumpstarts: New Chorale Preludes for Organ, ed. Carson Cooman

Sacred Music Press

Hymn Jumpstarts: New Chorale Preludes for Organ, ed. Carson Cooman

$25.00

Widor’s pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his followers in the French Romantic organ school.
University of Rochester Press (Eastman Studies in Music), 2019, 168 pgs.

Univ of Rochester Press

Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique, by John R. Near

$75.00

The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.
University of Rochester Press (Eastman Studies in Music), 2024, 298 pgs, hardcover.

Univ of Rochester Press

Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor, by John R. Near; forward by Rollin Smith

$95.00

The Oxford Book of Organ Music by Black Composers, ed. Anthony Williams

Oxford University Press

The Oxford Book of Organ Music by Black Composers, ed. Anthony Williams

$39.95

With Rollin Smith’s Lost Pipe Organs of America, the Organ Historical Society celebrates the Golden Age of pipe organ building and beyond. Every facet of American life, not only in worship, but in concert halls, auditoriums, universities, hotels, world’s fairs, and expositions, featured a notable instrument, now lost to history.

Lost Pipe Organs of America range from that of the Boston National Peace Jubilee of 1869; New York’s Chickering, Mendelssohn, and Carnegie Halls; Hotel Astor and Waldorf-Astoria; the E. & G.G. Hook at Louisville’s Southern Exposition of 1883; Chicago’s Steinway Hall and Stadium; auditoriums in Denver, Washington, Detroit, and Chicago; the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition’s Festival Hall, and Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall. A galaxy of America’s organbuilders include Hook, Jardine, Roosevelt, Skinner, Farrand & Votey, Aeolian, Möller, Austin, Estey, Barton, Wurlitzer, and Aeolian-Skinner. Hundreds of illustrations are what you have come to expect, and footnotes are, as usual, not to be missed.
2026, Organ Historical Society

Organ Historical Society

LOST PIPE ORGANS OF AMERICA

$110.00

Since the first volume of Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous appeared in 2014, the question has been asked many times: “When will there be a volume two?” It is now in production, and focuses on organs played and owned by famous individuals, many perhaps not so rich, but most are more famous than the subjects discussed in the first volume. In Volume Two, we explore organs associated with prominent Americans: the Fords, James Deering, the Ringling Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Joseph Pulitzer; humanitarians Albert Schweitzer and Martin Luther King; organ virtuosos: Daquin, Bruckner, E. Power Biggs, and Virgil Fox; famous preachers Henry Ward Beecher, Mary Baker Eddy, and Aimee Semple McPherson; and great composers: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi, Reger, Messiaen, and Elgar; and the trinity of French organ composers: Guilmant, Widor, and Vierne.
This volume is profusely illustrated with many previously-unseen photographs, organ stoplists, and biographies of any number of people not usually associated with the King of Instruments.
We hope to have included something for everyone’s interest and taste, but especially we hope to have shown the organ in all its facets, both sacred and secular, serious and entertaining, and the myriad way it enters our lives and continues to give inspiration as well as pleasure to so many millions of people. 2024; over 600 pages, Organ Historical Society Press.

Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous, Vol 2 - by Rollin Smith

$109.95

M.P. Möller was the largest organ company in the world and built more pipe organs than any other organ builder in history. Documenting such an enterprise is a formidable task that has been admirably achieved by Bynum Petty, the OHS’s former archivist. This revised and enlarged second edition of his original study of the company, An Organ a Day, traces its beginning in 1854 to its eventual sale in January,1993. A wealth of archival photographs illustrates every facet of the company, including its most important instruments. Many detailed stoplists of the largest organs, a transcript of M.P. Möller’s 1921 diary, and a complete catalogue of Möller Artiste player organ rolls are included. The last of 24 appendixes is a complete Geographical Index of the company’s 11,850 organs.

OHS Press, 2023; 402 pgs. hardcover

M.P. Möller: The Artist of Organs — The Organ of Artists - by Bynum Petty

$79.95

The second edition of this classic work has been completely revised and expanded with several new chapters, 11 appendixes that include 27 stoplists and a thematic catalog, and 92 illustrations, among which are all the known photographs of Saint-Saëns at the organ.
2023; OHS Press; 414 pgs.

Camille Saint-Saëns, Organist-Composer - by Rollin Smith

$49.99