MAURICE DURUFLÉ: The Man and His Music

From: The American Organist | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

MAURICE DURUFLÉ: The Man and His Music, James E. Frazier. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xxii, 375 pp. ISBN 13:978-1-58046-227-3. $65. Few composers of organ music have achieved such a broad popularity and so unassailable a stature among organists-on the strength of so few organ pieces-as has Maurice Duruflé. Of other such composers whose organ works, like those of Duruflé, fit comfortably on a single CD, perhaps only Brahms and Hindemith are comparable; yet while the prestige of their many familiar masterworks in other genres undoubtedly enhances the interest of ...

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