r/organ • • Aug 10 '20

Important Join r/organ's Official Chatroom/Discord Server and chat and discuss with fellow organists, enthusiasts, and have a good time with a friendly community!

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r/organ • • 19h ago

Pipe Organ More Scriabin on organ, this time Op. 49 No. 3 - Reverie

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Continuing to remember to post here and not just my IG


r/organ • • 15h ago

Pipe Organ The Largest Cathedral Organ In Europe

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r/organ • • 18h ago

Other Yale Offers Full Tuition and Living Stipends for 2027 Graduate Study in Music, Arts, and Religion, Including Opportunities to Explore Black Musical and Cultural Traditions

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r/organ • • 23h ago

Pipe Organ Black knife on my cathedral’s pipe organ.

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I’m gonna be taking lessons now I guess! I’m excited!


r/organ • • 22h ago

Performance/Original Composition Pachelbel - Aria Quarta - Klais organ, Lubin, Hauptwerk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlEb6w6Sg4Y

Hexachordum Apollinis is a collection of keyboard music by Johann Pachelbel, published in 1699. It consists of six arias with variations on the aria themes. It's considered as being one of the pinnacles of Pachelbel's oeuvre. A rough translation of the title is 'The six strings of Apollo', which refers to Apollo's lyre. Although the nature of these works were, according to Pachelbel's preface of this work, to have a friendly nature towards friends like Dietrich Buxtehude, they are all very fine pieces. The six themes themself are in itself already very beautiful, mostly lyrical in nature. But in the variations Pachelbel shows that he is one of the most talented masters of 'the art of variation' history has ever known.

The variations of this Aria Quarta sound wonderful on organ model with its many colours, perfect for this South German keyboard music.


r/organ • • 1d ago

Music Fire Emblem Theme March on Organ

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Here's the iconic Fire Emblem Theme arranged for organ as a March.

Enjoy. 😊


r/organ • • 1d ago

Music Seance - Johnathan Bepler (Composed for Avant-Garde Artist Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle)

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r/organ • • 2d ago

Performance/Original Composition Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156 - Sinfonia

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r/organ • • 3d ago

Pipe Organ Anna Lapwood full organ concert Hamburg 2026

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Arte has put Anna Lapwood's full solo concert from Hamburg Germany online on YouTube.

It will be available until the end of 2026

Enjoy the show.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ9G5nPxoBo&t=138s

#Annalapwood

#organ

#concert

#interstellar

#starwars


r/organ • • 2d ago

Performance/Original Composition Binder - Praeludium A-moll / A Minor - Metzler organ, Poblet, Hauptwerk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYhE5X2pyR4

Christlieb Siegmund Binder was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was mainly active in Dresden during his lifetime. He played keyboard in the Hofkapelle from 1751. From 1764 he was organist of the Hofkirche Dresden.

This small prelude is part of a collection of 72 preludes for organ and/or harpsichord.


r/organ • • 3d ago

Virtual Pipe Organ Help with grandorgue. sorry if yall get this question a lot

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hi. first of all my username is pretty bad don't judge it.(i didnt even pick it). I have recently gotten grandorgue and installed the Friesach organ package because I want big sound without exploding my computer. I want to connect grandorgue to a yamaha CLP grand 745. Don't get me wrong this is a premium epiano but grandorgue is so cool i just need to make it work on my CLP grand 745. I have followed the tutorials and googled for a whole week with no success.

The sound comes thru my CLP grand 745 but only when i click on the keys with my mouse.

the key is recognised when im trying to configure it (like when you right click a key) but nothing happens when i press keys.I tested it on an online piano and it ran amazing.settings are clean and have not really been touched.I am using a USB B cord aka printer cable. I am running on windows with 32GB ram.

If anyone would like to help I would be extremely grateful. this is also my first question on reddit so if I shouldn't be posting it here or am doing something bad plz tell me.


r/organ • • 3d ago

Help and Tips Trouble finding a teacher in Fort Worth. Is it normally so difficult?

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Hello all, I am currently moving back to the Fort Worth, Tx area from Austin. I am finding it impossible to find a teacher! I found my current teacher in Austin within 3 hours of searching. I have had many leads, and most have responded to my emails stating yes they give lessons and are taking students, etc. They will ask me what my current level of experience is and my musical background, and after I respond-nothing. Absolutely crickets. For the record, I am a novice who started lessons back in the spring of this year. I have a piano background and of course can read music. I have an organ in my home I can practice on, as well as at the church where I play piano. I give everyone these answers. Should I be saying something else, because I literally get no response. I just want to learn. Thanks in advance for any advice.


r/organ • • 3d ago

Pipe Organ 61-key unweighted or 88-key weighted for learning pipe organ?

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I’m 18 with no experience playing instruments or reading sheet music. My main goal is to learn the cathedral pipe organ, which I’ll have access to for practice.
I’m about 75% interested in organ and 25% in piano/harpsichord.
Should I buy a 61-key unweighted keyboard or an 88-key weighted digital piano for home practice? Would either affect my organ technique?


r/organ • • 3d ago

Music The Fire Emblem Anthem Arranged for Organ

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Here's the iconic Fire Emblem Theme arranged for organ as an Anthem.

Enjoy. 😊


r/organ • • 4d ago

Help and Tips Where could you go to play an organ?

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I’m an aspiring organist and a self taught pianist. I been attached to the organ for a while and was wondering where I could practice and hone my skills. I know SOME about how an organ works but I’m fairly new and it’s rare that I get my hands on one to play. Does anyone know HOW to get to a place to practice on a real organ?


r/organ • • 4d ago

Pipe Organ Extremely rare piece from Lanquetuit : Finale from organ symphony. Real or fake?

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I just discovered several recordings of this unknown piece by Lanquetuit. Almost no sources mentions this composition. And almost nobody knows it. I thought it may be just an improvisation or wrong title, but there are more recordings of this piece. It was even recorded for CD. See :

First recording without commentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2trMHThVJo
First recording with commentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXMlOhYJhIc

Second and newer, better recording with commentary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXMSMkAwX58

I am also sending the CD footage where Lanquetuit's finale from his Symphony is included.

Is it real? And why there is almost no information about this piece? I spent months of doing researches...


r/organ • • 4d ago

Help and Tips Beethoven String Quartets on organ?`

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Anyone here ever tried to adapt these to organ? If so, any recommendations for specific quartets/movements that lend themselves well to solo organ?


r/organ • • 4d ago

Pipe Organ How to learn Pärt: Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler?

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The parts by themselves are quite easy. But how do I put them together? Any suggested ways to learn this piece?

I'm having trouble with the slurred rhythms falling at different points in the different parts.

This is quite different to my usual fare (Bach preludes and fugues, trio sonatas).


r/organ • • 5d ago

Music What is the common wedding repertoire for organists?

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I would also find it helpful if you included the popular songs a bridal party often asks forc which you may have to arrange. Cheers, everyone!


r/organ • • 5d ago

Performance/Original Composition Kallenbach - Machs mit mir Gott, nach deiner Güt - Hinsz organ, Kampen, Hauptwerk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVKf3ljfmQ

Johann Christian Kallenbach (3 August 1765, Potsdam – 17 October 1832, Magdeburg) was a German composer, organist, poet and music teacher. He received his first musical lessons from his father, Christian Ernst Kallenbach, and later studied under Magdeburg music directors Johann Heinrich Rolle and Johann Friedrich Lebrecht Zacharias.
By 1790, Kallenbach was directing the choir of the Old Town School in Magdeburg. In 1793, he became organist at the Church of the Holy Spirit, a position he held until his death. He earned recognition for his compositions, particularly his songs, and for his work as a teacher and poet, including the romance Franz and Luise. One of his former pupils, actor Carl Ludwig Costenoble, remembered him as “a truly wonderful soul.” Kallenbach was survived by a daughter and two sons. His son Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, a theologian, temporarily took over his father’s position as organist until a permanent successor was appointed in May 1833.


r/organ • • 6d ago

Pipe Organ Organist Tyler Boehmer playing in my local church

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It's pretty surreal that after I suddenly became obsessed with organs, I went to my church on this specific day at this specific hour, and got to meet and hear an international star who happened to pass by in my random town located in the middle of nowhere. He was super talented and extremely sweet, and he even let me play!

Although I sucked ass, it was a very fun and memorable experience. I'm very grateful to him and I really wanna learn now... perhaps this meeting was a sign of destiny?


r/organ • • 6d ago

Pipe Organ A beautiful pipe organ in Grenoble, France

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A big magnificient organ in Saint-Louis church, in Grenoble, France. It was built by Formentelli, as a mix of German, French and Italian classic style. It even has a récit expressif !

63 stops and three keyboards. You can distinguish all of its sections by looking at it : the pedale's tourelles on the side, the positif de dos at the front, and the récit sitting on the grand orgue in the middle part.

The great pipes you see are chanoines, they are completely mute and do not play. As they are mainly made of tin and not lead (to make them shinier), you can see them being crushed under their own weight.

It is very pleasant to play this organ, the french reeds sound like thunder, the principals are very german-like with a sharp attack and the mixtures are sharp, but mellowed by the church acoustics and the fact that they go right over your head and are not directed toward you !


r/organ • • 7d ago

Pipe Organ Scriabin Op. 74 No. 4 played on organ

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I keep forgetting to post my continued Scriabin on Organ series here, enjoy!


r/organ • • 7d ago

Music Easy Repertoire like Bach Prelude in C major, BWV 939

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I have played the piano quite a bit in younger years and now live in a small appartment without much space. After like a hiatus of several years I have started to pick up playing an instrument again (recorder) and now I bought a smaller 61 key midi keyboard and want to dabble a bit with organ repertoire.

The Bach Prelude in C major, BWV 939 https://imslp.org/wiki/Prelude_in_C_major,_BWV_939_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian) overall seem at a level that I would feel comfortable to study pieces at. Now I wonder whether you can recommend other pieces of similar level?

Note that I

  1. don't have foot pedals available
  2. would prefer repertoire from the baroque period overall (not a hard requirement though).

Any suggestions?