Beginning and intermediate organists can sample a wide variety of composers and styles with this excellent collection. Ranging from Palestrina's 16th-century Ricercare to latter-day works such as Sigfrid Karg-Elert's Improvisation on 'Nearer My God to Thee ' it spans more than four centuries of music.Selected from authoritative sources by musicologist and organist Rollin Smith this compilation features such famous works as J. S. Bach's Pastorale BWV 590; Couperin's Chaconne in F; and Handel's Concerto No. 13 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.' Other well-known selections include compositions by Brahms Gounod Haydn Liszt Mendelssohn Vierne andWidor.Dover Original.