Decades earlier, he taught for nearly twenty years at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where a large number of famous organists studied with him during their collegiate years.
Several notable organists have given recitals on this instrument, including Carlo Curley, Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington, Thomas Trotter, and John Scott.
Widor had several students in Paris who were to become famous composers and organists in their own right, most notably the aforementioned Dupré, Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Darius Milhaud, Alexander Schreiner, Edgard Varèse, and the Canadian Henri Gagnon.
From 1645 he and his brother Charles were organists to Chancellor Séguier.
The terms Father of the Saxon organists and Fährmann-School were current at the time; even at Helsingfors (Helsinki today) in Finland there are traces of Fährmann's activity and influence as a teacher.
Other famous organists have played there, including Virgil Fox.
Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors.
When reggae arrived in late 1968, lead instrumental duties were handled by organists Ansell Collins and Winston Wright.
Jan Rybarski (b. 1941), conductor and organist, graduated from the Secondary School for Organists in Przemyśl and the Music High School in Kraków.
As part of the burgeoning soul-jazz scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sparks often backed organists like Jack McDuff, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Charles Earland.
He was born into a family of musicians: his father, his grandfather, and his Uncle Robert were organists at the Reims Cathedral, the Basilica of St. Pierre and St. Hilaire, respectively.
He was born in Laon and in the 1650s settled in Paris, quickly establishing himself as one of the best organists of the country.
The organists of Cologne Cathedral have included Josef Zimmermann, Clemens Ganz and Winfried Bönig.
As head of the musicians of the ducal court, aside from overseeing the boy singers, he had under his charge organists and composers of great stature, including the English Peter Philips and John Bull (then organist at the cathedral of Antwerp), and the Flemish Peeter Cornet and Philippe van der Meulen.
Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The 94th Psalm sonata is in the repertoire of most concert organists, and has been recorded by many well-known players such as Simon Preston, Alan Morrison, Virgil Fox, Christopher Herrick, Gillian Weir, Jeremy Filsell, Daniel Roth, Kevin Bowyer, and Jean Guillou.
Choral and organ concerts around a theme have been presented once a year, called Boni-Musikwochen, including concerts of organists such as Kent Tritle and Ignace Michiels, as well as of the project choir Reger-Chor.
Walford's brothers Charlie and Harold were, successively, organists at Christ Church succeeding their uncle, Charlie from the age of eleven.