Making Music on the Organ - Hardcover

Peter Hurford is an organist, teacher, and founder of the International Organ Festival at St. Albans.

`A book of great wisdom, culture, and positive common sense.'
Musical Times

`Full of insights that come only from a very experienced player ... enlightened and enlightening.'
Peter Williams

`A short but pithy treatise on music-making first and foremost, and on the organ as one of the most problematic, but ultimately one of the most rewarding, means of doing so.'
Classical Music

`a cogent, well-illustrated explanation ... in terms of the greatest clarity and readability, eschewing the arcane mumbo-jumbo that can assail writers on the subject ... Hurford's immense experience of performing and teaching enables him to encapsulate his thoughts on each topic in a few,
brilliantly-chosen words. A book of great wisdom, culture and positive commonsense.'
Anne Bond, Musical Times

`This book is absolutely essential reading for every student of the organ who is desirous of acquainting him or herself wih Hurford's art ... This publication is clearly laid out; and is a useful compendium of source-materials for the serious student' William McVicker,
Hi-Fi News and Record Review

`His book is compact with ideas and advice that come only of long experience' Charles Morgenstern, Oxford Times

`an admirably open-minded and pragmatic guide' Nicholas Kenyon,
Observer

`Hurford has worked steadily and painstakingly to distill into one tidy and beautifully-produced volume a lifetime's experience as one of the world's most respected players and teachers ... an encouraging and optimistic book, written with authority, affection, enthusiasm and just enough wry
humour to add a human face to a subject that might well have drowned in a sea of seriousness and self-importance Susan Sturrock,
Music Diary

`The author's own curiosity and liveliness make for an unusually stimulating book, which can be read profitably by non-organists with an interest in keyboard music, especially that of the High Baroque ... essential reading for anyone seriously interested in organ music'
Early Music

`Within the confines of this comparatively small book there is to be found in every chapter more commonsense per page than is usual in many a larger volume covering the same ground ... I can unhesitatingly recommend this book as one of the most perceptive to have been published in recent
years.'
The Organ