Description
Essays by prominent scholars and organists examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified.
Excellent scholarship; highly recommended for all academic collections.
Lawrence Archbold and William J. Peterson have amassed the quintessential scholarly compendium. . . . For recitalists, informed teachers, and students of the Romantic period, this is required reading and study.
An enormous amount of scholarly investigation has gone into this volume. . . a thoroughly admirable piece of work.