Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique

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[A] welcome investment by teachers and serious performers interested in Widor's music and late nineteenth-century French interpretations of JS Bach's organ music. -- David Ponsford * JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ORGAN STUDIES * Essential reading for any serious student of the French Romantic style. Another major milestone in the journey towards recognition of this undeservedly neglected genius. * ORGAN AUSTRALIA * Encapsulates all Widor's pedagogical philosophy, rules for organ playing, and practical advice . . . all translated into elegant English. The advice he gives is so astute that it works for music of all time. -- Rollin Smith * AMERICAN ORGANIST * Translated for the first time, Widor's pedagogical writings suggest crucial advice in interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his contemporaries from the French Romantic organ school. * THE SYDNEY ORGAN JOURNAL * John Near's most recent study of Charles-Marie Widor, Widor's Maxims on Organ Performance Practice and Technique, has as its primary goal to bring together all of the available information, drawn from Widor's own writing and from that of his contemporaries, that illuminates Widor's views on organ playing. In this, he has been eminently successful. -- William Porter, Eastman School of Music Many details on performance practice are packed into this slender volume; organists will have much to take away from it and to apply to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French organ repertoire. -- Annette Richards * BACH Journal * Extraordinarily useful in illuminating the Maitre's mind...level-headed, impatient with dilettantish mystification, and unfailingly clear...This handsomely printed and meticulously produced volume [should] find a place on the shelves of anyone possessing the slightest interest in the organ. -- Robert James Stove * MUSICOLOGY AUSTRALIA *