As for the cathedral organists who followed him chronologically, the less said about them the better.
The authorities got two builders to set up each an organ, and decided which was the better by the simple plan of hearing them played by different organists and deciding which sounded the better.
Footnote 26: For a list of the Organists of Westminster Abbey, see p.
Two other very prominent organists are William Herbert Bush, of New London, Conn.
In spirit he has a single point of alliance with the organists of Southern Germany, in his want of sympathy with, his estrangement from, the chorale, in which the music of Middle Germany had its life.
Passacaglio in C minor, well known to all organists worthy of the name (1.
Of his organ works little remains, but we have the accordant testimony of his contemporaries to place him among the greatest organists of his time.
Mr. Walling was director, Miss Margaret Oaks and Miss Mabel Hussey were the organists during the time.
Organists of the Early Years in San Francisco: Richard T.
For nearly two hundred years there had been organists and composers in the family; Sebastian's father, Johann Ambrosius Bach was organist of the Lutheran Church in Eisenach, and naturally a love of music was fostered in the home.
One of the great organists of the time was Johann Adam Reinken.
Michael and All Angels, Exeter, were acknowledged by London organists to be 'second to none' in the provinces.
The organistsof a younger generation are to be congratulated on the facilities now placed at their disposal, mainly by the genius and persevering efforts of four men--as hereinafter described.
Mark Andrews, Associate of the Royal College of Organists, England, President of the National Association of Organists and Sub-Warden of the American Guild of Organists.
The radiating and concave board has been adopted by the American Guild of Organists and has long been considered the standard for the best organs built in the United States and Canada.
Organists find, after using them a short time, that a row of stop-keys over the manuals is wonderfully easy to control.
Almost all the greatest organists agree in condemning the system of non-moving stop-knobs, and we trust and believe that it will soon be finally abandoned.
It is generally thought amongst the more advanced of the builders and organists qualified to judge, that the tubular-pneumatic action will sooner or later be entirely abandoned in favor of the electro-pneumatic action.
Nowadays many organists find it possible to play the Overture to Tannhauser; the writer pleads guilty himself.
X and Z had specially engaged two eminent organiststo play for them.
This was a double organ, requiring two organists to play it.
He was soon generally recognized as one of the most skilful organists of his time; and in 1751, as the result of a comic opera, Il Filosofo convinto in amore, performed at Potsdam, he was made court composer to Frederick the Great.
In music he was reputed one of the first organists of the age.
It has suffered especially by the objectionable interludes which the organists introduced, and still introduce, not only between the verses, but also at every line which terminates with a pause in the musical notation.
Many of the organists are but superficial musicians, while the clergymen generally know nothing about music.
July 1607, in the hall of the Company, and he seems to have been appointed one of the king's organists in that year.
In 1613 he again went to the continent on account of his health, obtaining a post as one of the organists in the arch-duke's chapel at Brussels.
The handcart-organists are a race of a very different and more enterprising character, and of much more lofty and varied pretensions.
The recently published history of the music in St. Mark's extends back to 1380, from which time to the beginning of the present century there has been a succession of eminent musicians as organists and musical directors.
He was able to play the most difficult music in every key at twelve years; and was appointed one of the court organists when fifteen.
The towns on the Rhine are all famous for their organs, and proud of the eminent organists they have had in the past.
If only some of our London organists would take a leaf out of the Madeleine music-book!
Merklin, under a committee of organists and musicians; other instruments may be larger, but few are so beautiful in tone.
Several of the Paris organs are fine, and the French school of organists is of all the least conventional.
This is not the place to examine into the work of our many excellent church organists and composers.
As soon as the art of organ playing set out upon its independent career early in the seventeenth century, the organistsbegan to take up the choral melodies as subjects for extempore performance.
Somewhat similar qualities, although far less sensational, are found in the productions of that admirable band of organists and church composers that now lends such lustre to the art life of the French capital.
The reason why so few students of talent are preparing themselves for work in the Church as organists and choir leaders is that the prospect of remuneration is too small to make this special study worth their while.
The organists and choir masters connected with the cathedrals and the university and royal chapels are men whose character and intellectual attainments would make them ornaments to any walk of life.
An organist is rarely a highly paid individual: but modern organists may well be astonished at the meagreness of the salary for which the greatest of their predecessors was content to work.
Sidenote: Visit to Luebeck] Towards the end of 1705 Bach determined to go to Luebeck to hear and study the style of Buxtehude, one of the greatest organists then living.
We have seen that for many generations they had been musicians, and had held the chief posts as organists and town musicians throughout Thuringia; and John Sebastian naturally had no other thought than to follow the family profession.
It is supposed that Bach managed to eke out his existence by cultivating a small plot of land which it was usual to give to organists in Thuringia as part of their salary.
It was supposed to have some connection with the piece that was to follow, but the unhappy effusions of incompetent organists led to occasional remonstrance from the Council.
Like many other good organists he had his rubs with an unthinking vestry, but got over them.
There are organists still living who have not forsaken the ancient custom of adding small ornaments to the written notes.
Before Bach's time, pianists and organists used only the three middle fingers in playing.
It was the custom, long ago, for organiststo write the music which was sung in their churches.
Bach always played the Organ so, adding the obbligato pedal, which few organistsknow how to use properly.
He employed it not only to sound the low notes which organists usually play with the left hand, but he gave it a regular part of its own, often so complicated that many organists would find it difficult to play with their five fingers.
Veit himself was not a professional musician; one of his sons was a Spielmann; thereafter for the next 150 years all but seven of his descendants, whose professions are known, were Organists or Cantors or Town Musicians.
His registration frequently astonished organists and Organ builders, who ridiculed it at first, but were obliged in the end to admit its admirable results and to confess that the Organ gained in richness and sonority.
The fact that the same keyboard was used in both instruments was sufficient to suggest to the early organists that one style of playing was practicable for both.
The Roman school of organists made valuable contributions to the development of instrumental music.
Hamburg was a musical centre, and was especially famous for its organists and composers of sacred music.
But we do not meet with any definite school of organists in Venice until the third period of the Netherlands school, when the great Adrian Willaert was the leading master.
He is to-day one of the most widely known organists of the country, being acknowledged everywhere a master of the instrument.
One of the finest organists in the country, a blind gentleman by the name of Wood, was the power behind the throne.
It is said he has trained more good organists than any other teacher in Philadelphia.
To enable blind musicians to show that the loss of sight does not prevent their being efficient organists and scientific musicians.
The salaries of organists are small considering the amount of talent and practice required; but most organists teach music, or stand in music stores, or act as agents for manufacturers of musical instruments.
Harmonized versions of the psalms, antiphons, and anthems have been made for the use of those singers and organists who are, as yet, ignorant of plain chant, and accustomed only to modern musical notation.
The simplicity of Father Young's arrangement cannot fail to be appreciated by organists as well as by the singers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "organists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
