Lemare’s compositions are uneven in quality but the best are still active in the repertoire. The Andantino also known as ‘Moonlight and Roses’ is the best known of his pieces and was requested by audiences at every concert he performed. The work requires thumbing down so the performing is playing on three manuals at once.Organ virtuoso and composer Edwin Lemare was the world’s highest-paid Organist at the height of his career in the early 1900’s drawing bravos from ctritics and the crowds who queued around the block to hear this most famous of Organists. After having served as a church Organist for a relatively short period he began the life of a travelling recitalist beginning with a hundred-recital tour of the USA and Canada in 1900 a career that continued until the stock market crash of 1929. Lemare was also virtuosic in his ability to transcribe great Orchestral works for the Organ allowing audiences in those less urban times to hear works played live that they might have heard no other way.

Written for organ edited by Edwin H. Lemare. Suggested opening registration is Swell: Cornopean 8'; Great: Diapasons 16' & 8' uncoupled: Choir: Soft 8'; Pedal: Soft 16'.

Written for organ solo. Edited by Edwin Lemare.No.18 from The Recital Series of Original Compositions. Dedicated to Roger Ascham.

Description 27 scintillating works for Church or Concert performance. Songlist Capriccio, 'La Caccia' (Polibio Fumagalli) Carillon (Leo Sowerby) Carillon From 'Douze Pieces', Op.16 (Leon Boellmann) Carillons From 'Dix Pieces', Op.7 (Emile Bourdon) Carillon-sortie (Mulet) Fanfare D'orgue (Harry Rowe Shelley) Festival Toccata [Fletcher, Percy E.] Humoresque, 'L'organo Primitivo' (Pietro Yon) Les Carillons De Saint-paul D'orleans (Adolphe Marty) Rondo Con Imitatizione De' Campanelli (Giovanni Morandi) Roulade From 'Six Pieces', Op.9 (Seth Bingham) Scherzo (Gaston Dethier) Scherzo In E Major From 'Dix Pieces' (Eugene Gigout) Scherzo In G Minor Op.49 No.2 Toccata (Symphony No.5) [Widor, Charles-Marie] Toccata And Fugue In D Minor- Bwv565 (J.S Bach Ed. Lemare) Toccata From 'Suite Gothique (Leon Boellmann) Toccata In A Major Op.67, No.2 (Georges Macmaster) Toccata In B Minor From 'Dix Pieces' (Eugene Gigout) Toccata In B Minor From 'Suite De Morceaux' (Charles Tournemire) Toccata In D Minor From 'Trois Pieces' (Alphonse Mailly) Toccata In D Minor Op.108, No.1 (Albert Renaud) Toccata In E Major (Remigio Renzi) Toccata In E Minor (Joseph Callaerts) Toccata In G Major From 'Douze Pieces' (Theodore Dubois) Tu Es Petra From 'Equisses Byzantines' (Henri Mulet) Veritables Preludes Flasques

La prière du soir ' Abends will ich schlafen gehen ' est certainement un des morceaux les plus belles et émouvant dans l'opéra de conte de fée de Humperdinck ' Hansel et Gretel '. L'organiste britannique Edwin H. Lemare (1865-1934), qui était célèbre pour ses improvisations et des transcriptions a écrit un arrangement de ce travail sous le titre de ' Angel Scene '. Suit de près la partition originale et en sélectionnant habilement s'arrête, il a créé une version qui encore aujourd'hui, ne manque pas d'avoir l'effet désiré sur l'auditoire. / Orgue