Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via ...

To quote the French organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor, "To play the organ properly, one should have a vision of eternity." Widor died in 1937, so he was spared the transformation of the pipe ...

Bach: Toccata and Fugue in F Major; Prelude and Fugue in D Major; Prelude and Fugue in F Minor “The Great”; Prelude and Fugue in E Minor; three chorales. Michael Murray, organ (Telarc). Michael Murray ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the greatest composer for the “king of instruments,” the organ — think the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 — and it has been a tradition on Montpelier ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...

Toccata and Fugue Margaret Phillips, Organ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Chorale Preludes, Movements: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV730 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Margaret Phillips, Organ ...

Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...

Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys the musical landscape surrounding JS Bach's iconic Toccata and Fugue BWV 565. This keyboard tour-de-force is instantly recognisable: ask anyone to think of a piece for organ ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds ...