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List of organists

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The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature.

Living organists[edit]

Australia[edit]

David Drury (born 1961)

Austria[edit]

Martin Haselböck (born 1954)
Brett Leighton (born 1955)
Matthias Maierhofer (born 1979)
Peter Planyavsky (born 1947)

Belgium[edit]

Jan Van Landeghem (born 1954)
Ignace Michiels (born 1963)
Luc Ponet (born 1959)

Bulgaria[edit]

Alexandra Fol (born 1981)
Neva Krysteva (born 1946)

Canada[edit]

Denis Bédard (born 1950)
Desmond Gaspar (born 1970)
Paul Halley (born 1952)
Rachel Mahon (born 1989)
John Tuttle (born 1946)

Croatia[edit]

Ivan Božičević (born 1961)
Pavao Mašić (born 1980)

Czech Republic[edit]

Pavel Kohout (born 1976)

Denmark[edit]

Frederik Magle (born 1977)

Finland[edit]

Kalevi Kiviniemi (1958–2024)

France[edit]

Michel Bouvard (born 1958)
Thierry Escaich (born 1965)
Jérôme Faucheur (born 1953)
Naji Hakim (born 1955)
Olivier Latry (born 1962)
Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 1939)
Michael Matthes (born 1966)
Thierry Mechler (born 1962)
Daniel Roth (born 1942)
Nariné Simonian (born 1966)
Marina Tchebourkina (born 1965)
Johann Vexo (born 1978)

Germany[edit]

Daniel Beckmann (born 1980)
Andreas Boltz (born 1964)
Winfried Bönig (born 1959)
Gabriel Dessauer (born 1955)
Matthias Eisenberg (born 1956)
Stefan Engels (born 1967)
Clemens Ganz (born 1935)
Zsolt Gárdonyi (born 1946)
Felix Hell (born 1985)
Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945)
Rudolf Kelber (born 1948)
Helmut Kickton (born 1956)
Otto Maria Krämer (born 1964)
Edgar Krapp (born 1947)
Ludger Lohmann (born 1954)
Petra Morath-Pusinelli (born 1967)
Mathias Rehfeldt (born 1986)
Wolfgang Rübsam (born 1946)
Wolfgang Seifen (born 1956)
Ludger Stühlmeyer (born 1961)
Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 1939)
Elke Voelker (born 1968)
Harald Vogel (born 1941)
Martin Welzel (born 1972)

Hungary[edit]

Laszlo Fassang (born 1973)
Bálint Karosi (born 1979)
Balázs Szabó (born 1985)
Xavér Varnus (born 1964)
Zsolt Kiss (born 1979)

Italy[edit]

Domenico Morgante (born 1956)
Arturo Sacchetti (born 1941)

Ireland[edit]

Gerard Gillen
Ronan Murray (born 1977)

Latvia[edit]

Iveta Apkalna (born 1976)
Aivars Kalējs (born 1951)
Jevgenija Lisicina (born 1942)
Linze Reine (born 1970)

Monaco (Principality)[edit]

Marc Giacone (born 1954)

Netherlands[edit]

Arjan Breukhoven (born 1962)
Christine Kamp (born 1966)
Ton Koopman (born 1944)
Ben van Oosten (born 1955)
Jan Verschuren (born 1962)
Sietze de Vries (born 1973)

New Zealand[edit]

Douglas Mews (born 1956)

Norway[edit]

Jon Laukvik (born 1952)
Kåre Nordstoga (born 1954)

Philippines[edit]

Armando Salarza (born 1966)

Poland[edit]

Krzysztof Czerwiński (born 1980)

Russia[edit]

Marina Tchebourkina (born 1965)

Singapore[edit]

Evelyn Lim

South Africa[edit]

Barry Smith (born 1939)

Spain[edit]

Montserrat Torrent i Serra (born 1926)

Sweden[edit]

Hans Davidsson (born 1958)
Hans-Ola Ericsson (born 1958)
Hans Fagius (born 1951)

Switzerland[edit]

Guy Bovet (born 1942)
Daniel Chorzempa (born 1944)
Lionel Rogg (born 1936)
Bernhard Ruchti (born 1974)

United Kingdom[edit]

United States[edit]

Deceased organists[edit]

Austria[edit]

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Hans Haselböck (1928–1954)
Susi Jeans (1911–1993)

Belgium[edit]

Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (1823–1881)

Canada[edit]

Gerald Bales (1919–2002)
H. Hugh Bancroft (1904–1988)
Gérard Caron (1916–1986)
Douglas Clarke (1893–1962)
Antoine Dessane (1826–1873)
Christopher Jackson (1948–2015)
Rachel Laurin (1961–2023)
Ernest MacMillan (1893–1973)
Theodore Frederic Molt (1795–1856)
Charles Peaker (1899–1978)
Healey Willan (1880–1968)

Czech republic (Bohemia)[edit]

František Xaver Brixi (1732–1771)
Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky (1684–1742)
Petr Eben (1929–2007)
Josef Seger (1716–1782)

Denmark[edit]

Grethe Krogh (1928–2018)
Mogens Wöldike (1897–1988)

France[edit]

Jehan Alain (1911–1940)
Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
Augustin Barié (1883–1915)
Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897)
Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944)
Michel Chapuis (1930–2017)
Pierre Cochereau (1924–1984)
Edouard Commette (1883–1967)
Marie-Anne Couperin (born 1677)
Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006)
André Fleury (1903–1995)
César Franck (1822–1890), from Belgium
Eugène Gigout (1844–1925)
Jean Guillou (1930–2019)
Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
André Isoir (1935–2016)
Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
Marcel Lanquetuit (1894–1985)
Gaston Litaize (1909–1991)
Paul de Maleingreau (1887–1956)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Henri Mulet (1878–1967)
Pierre Pincemaille (1956–2018)
René Saorgin (1928–2015)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)
Louis Thiry (1935–2019)
Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)

Germany[edit]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Joseph Siegmund Bachmann (1754–1825)
Melchior Hoffmann (1679–1715)
Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
Franz Lehrndorfer (1928–2013)
Theodor Pröpper (1896–1979)
Karl Richter (1926–1981)
Karl Straube (1873–1956)
Käte van Tricht (1909–1996)
Helmut Walcha (1907–1991)
Gerd Zacher (1929–2014)

Hungary[edit]

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
János Sebestyén (1931–2012)

Italy[edit]

Costanzo Antegnati (1549–1624)
Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886–1962)
Fernando Germani (1906–1998)
Michelangelo Rossi (1601–1656)
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017)

Netherlands[edit]

Willem Bartholomeus (1825–1892)
Klaas Bolt (1927–1990)
Piet Kee (1927–2018)
Ewald Kooiman (1938–2009)
Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012)
Liuwe Tamminga (1953–2021)

Nigeria[edit]

Fela Sowande (1905–1987)

Spain[edit]

Joan Aulí (1796–1869)

Sweden[edit]

Harald Fryklöf (1882–1918)
Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger (1719–1780)

Switzerland[edit]

Alfred Baum (1904–1993)
Fridolin Sicher (1490–1546)

United Kingdom[edit]

Walter Alcock (1861-1947)
Edward Bairstow (1874–1946)
Jennifer Bate (1944–2020)
E. Power Biggs (1906–1977)^{[note 1]}
John Birch (1929-2012)
Hugh Blair (1864-1932)
Jonathan Blewitt (1782–1853)
Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)
William Hutchins Callcott (1807–1882)
William Carnaby (1772–1839)
Stephen Cleobury (1948–2019)
Norman Cocker (1889-1953)
Marmaduke Conway (1885-1961)
Melville Cook (1912-1993)
Robert Cooke (1768–1814)
Arthur Thomas Corfe (1773–1863)
Joseph Corfe (1740–1820)
G. D. Cunningham (1878-1948)
Lionel Dakers (1924-2003)
Nicholas Danby (1935-1997)
Harold Darke (1888-1976)
Christopher Dearnley (1930-2000)
Ralph Downes (1904–1993)
John Dykes Bower (1905-1981)
Catherine Ennis (1955-2020)
Roger Fisher (1936-2021)
Alfred Robert Gaul (1837–1913)
Harvey Grace (1874-1944)
Douglas Guest (1916-1996)
Joseph John Harris (1799–1869)
William Henry Harris (1883–1973)
Joseph Binns Hart (1794–1844)
Philip Hart (died 1749)
Basil Harwood (1859–1949)
James Hawkins (1662–1729)
Edward Heath (1916-2005)
James Heseltine (1690–1763)
John Larkin Hopkins (1819–1873)
Martin How (1931-2022)
Michael Howard (1922–2002)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Peter Hurford (1930–2019)
Donald Hunt (1930-2018)
Randolph Jewett (1602–1675)
John Keeble (1711–1786)
Joseph Kelway (1702–1782)
Thomas Kelway (c. 1695 – 1744)
Philip Knapton (1788–1833)
Gerald Knight (1908-1979)
George Jackson Lambert (1794–1880)
Richard Langdon (1729–1803)
Philip Ledger (1937-2012)
Henry Ley (1904-1993)
Richard Hey Lloyd (1933-2021)
William Henry Longhurst (1819–1904)
Albert Mallinson (1870–1946)
Colin Mawby (1936-2019)
William Henry Monk (1823-1889)
Lucian Nethsingha (1936-2021)
Boris Ord (1897-1961)
Jane Parker-Smith (1950-2020)
John Parsons (1563–1623)
Martin Peerson (c. 1572 – c. 1650)
Josiah Pittman (1816–1886)
Simon Preston (1938-2022)
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
James Kendrick Pyne (1852–1938)
Noel Rawsthorne (1929–2019)
Vaughan Richardson (died 1729)
John Robinson (1682–1762)
Brian Runnett (1935-1970)
John Sanders (1933-2003)
David Sanger (1947–2010)
John Scott (1956–2015)
Bruce Steane (1866-1938)
Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868–1942)
Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Christopher Tambling (1964-2015)
George Thalben-Ball (1896–1987)
John Tomkins (1586–1638)
Stanley Vann (1910-2010)
William Litton Viner (1790–1867)
Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Thomas Forbes Walmisley (1783–1866)
Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876)
John Webster (died 1974)
Henry Westrop (1812–1879)
Frederick Wilson Whitehead (1863–1926)
David Willcocks (1919–2015)
Arthur Wills (1926-2020)

United States[edit]

Frank W. Asper (1892-1973)
Herman Berlinski (1910–2010)^{[note 2]}
Leon Berry (1914-1996)
E. Power Biggs (1906–1977)^{[note 1]}
David Boe (1936–2020)
Del Castillo (1893–1992)^[1]
Twinkie Clark (born 1954)
Catharine Crozier (1914-2003)
Carlo Curley (1952–2012)
Garth Edmundson (1892–1971)
Richard Ellsasser (1926–1972)
Dan Federici (1950–2008)
Charles B. Fisk (1925-1983)^[2]
Virgil Fox (1912–1980)
Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881–1945)
Robert Glasgow (1925-2008)
Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
Eddie Layton (1925–2004)
Leonard MacClain (1899–1967)
Byron Melcher (1929–2012)
T. Tertius Noble (1867–1953)
Richard Purvis (1913–1994)
Alexander Schreiner (1901–1987)
John Serry, Sr. (1915–2003)
Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)
Frederick Swann (1931–2022)
Carl Weinrich (1904–1991)
Berj Zamkochian (1929–2004)

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b Born in Essex, England. Immigrated to US in 1930.
^ Born in Leipzig, Germany. Immigrated to US in 1941.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

^ "Obituaries: Lloyd G. (del) Castillo". Los Angeles Times. July 28, 1992. p. A20. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
^ "Charles B. Fisk". ahf.nuclearmuseum.org. Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

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