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He wrote two, the other one is in eight parts.

For so many, many years Gabrieli was known for just this one piece of music.. Why? Because he discovered soft (piano) and LOUD (forte)!! O me O my. This was important to the crescendo school of music history, because it is a first step toward the greatest of all musical instrument, the modern orc...

The original Ruffati console was four manuals. They must have made some significant additions to the organ because this is a five manual drawknob console. Once considered a luxury, drawknob consoles are almost universal in this country anymore. Some builders, notably Ernest Skinner built only dra...

The Hebrides is as close to Brahms as he would ever get. Indeed, had he lived longer he might have eclipsed Brahms as a composer.

The Bflat Bass Clarinet is one of the best members of the clarinet family. I played one through high school and college. The only thing better was playing a BBflat Contrabass Clarinet, the "paperclip" model that went down to 32 hz.. Still, if i could afford one I'd get a Leblanc model bass clari...

The reason Larry Hooper could hit those notes as if they were mid range, is because for him those notes were mid range.

Lawrence Welk and Henry Mancini were personal friends.

The organ for this is the famous "Organo de la Emperador" which is located above the North entrance of the cathedral. Bigg's adapted a movement from one of Padre Soler's double concertos for two organs. Legend has it that the "Emperor's Organ" was played only when the King entered the cathedral....

It take a regiment of stentorian voices, an over 100 piece orchestra, the magic of modern stagecraft, and a special set of acoustics for Richard Wagner to approach the power and authority that J. S. Bach can command with one single violin, and the notes of music he composed on the page.

We're used to the Peter's edition. I would almost bet this performance used the Hedar/Hansen edition. The problem with Buxtehude is that his manuscripts are written in organ tabletur, which shows the position of the hand. Deciphering tabletur is a different problem than comparing written notes. ...

Yes, the organ is a Cavaille-Coll, one of his last, built in 1898-99 just before St. Ouen, Rouen. St. Sernin is a Romanesque building, while St. Ouen is Gothic. Widor, who had announced that he would right no more organ symphonies, wrote the Symphonie Romaine for St. Sernin, and the Symphonie G...

Western steam locomotives tended to be oil burners, although not all. UP 844 and 3985 are both oil burners. UP Big Boys burned coal. Coal still has more natural heat value than oil, although most locomotives burned bunker C or D, the thick and heavy stuff. Eastern railroads however, used coal. ...

More than one steam locomotive pulled more cars in excursion service than they did when they were pulling regular trains. N&W 611 had a consist of 16-18 cars back in the 1950's. But I saw it pull a loaded 34 car excursion out of Columbus, and it started with out help. Of course, it didn't have ...

Well, a "Baroque" orchestra was good enough for Handel, who conducted the first performances at the coronation of George II (a personal friend of his). Besides what a baroque orchestra may lack in fullness, it more than makes up for in agility. Still and all, a good performance of a magnificent p...

Mozart first heard the music of J. S. Bach in 1789., when he invited to stay and hear the choir to perform the motet Singet dem Herrn." When they were done, Mozart asked to see the music, saying "this is music from which one could learn." He spent the rest of the afternoon looking at the part...

The new Frauenkirche organ was built by Alfred Kern of Alsace. It has four manuals: Silbermann never made a four manual instrument. However, the new Frauenkirche organ has basically the same stops as the original for the first three manuals. The fourth is a Swell division, so organist can play Fr...

The organ is the last three manual organ by Gottfried Silbermann, completed in 1754: four years after the death of J. S. Bach. It was stored during WW II and was rebuilt by Gebruder Jemlich. The stoplist on it is similar to the organ he installed in the Frauenkirche in 1745. Bach did play a reci...

The Notre Dame organ, unlike many a Cavaille-Coll, did not have a Cliquot heritage. It was a Thierry, who was a generation before Cliquot. The organ suffered greatly during the Revolution, so it spent many years in disrepair. Cavaille-Coll turned it into a Cavaille-Coll in the 1850's. I wish they...

The Zwolle Schnitger was a favorite of E. Power Biggs. He made two records with it: Bach at Zwolle and it was featured in his anthology album The Golden Age of the Organ. He uses it for a rip roaring rendering of the "Dorian" Toccata and Fuge in d minor--the other and better one in my opinion.

J.S. Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel were born in the same year, in the same region of Germany and were trained in the same musical tradition. Both were organists and composers. However, Bach was a man of the church, while Handel was a man of the theatre. I've always found it interesting that Han...

@mango2005 Thank you for the correction. Still he was the last monarch to do it, something that just isn't done anymore. Still, if Prince Harry keeps up his military career, he may end up as a Prince/General.

Handel never made a farthing on Messiah during his life time, (not that he needed to) aside from the Dublin premier, all later performances were for the benefit of the Foundling Hospital, his favorite charity. Unlike Bach, Handel achieved great fame in his lifetime, and his fame outlived him. Wh...

The organ is the new organ of the Mormon Conference Center. Built and designed by Jack Bethards of F. E. Shoenstein & Co of San Francisco.

It was improvised and the director had the good sense to keep it in the film. That's why that scene looks so fresh and new every time you see it. Cohan is best remembered for his patriotic songs, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Grand Ol' Flag and others. He also wrote ballads such as "Mary" for his Broadwa...

The basic purpose of the movie was to show that Queen Victoria was not all that "Victorian."

The late David Britton was my first college organ teacher. I still have music which has his markings re: technique and phrasing. Though an advocate for the Neo-Baroque when I knew him, he turned toward romantic music and organs later in life. His last CD was recorded on the Kimball organ at St. ...