The Harmonium School (Op. 5) was written by Ernst Stapf and first published in German as Praktische Anleitung zum Harmonium-Spiel. It is a practical guide to playing the Harmonium (or American Reed Organ) and a rare example of the wide range of method books that were published during the heyday of the instrument in the latter part of the 1800s and the early 1900s.Stapf wrote few works that have survived to this day but is perhaps best known as the arranger and editor of a popular series entitled the Harmonium Album in which he gave simple one- and two-manual arrangements of classic works by the greatcomposers including Beethoven Bach and Handel.

John Stanley (1713-1786) was a British composer conductor and organist. Having learnt to play the Organ at the age of seven he became the youngest person to ever obtain a B.Mus. degree from Oxford at the age of 17. He was appointed Master of the King’s Musick in 1779 and wrote many odes for the monarch. However most of his music has now been lost and only his Organ works have remained in popular use to this day.Prelude and Bell Allegro for Organ have been edited and arranged by the American composer Patrick Williams (b. 1939).

Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata In B Minor arranged here for Organ by Patrick Williams.

Albert W Ketèlbey's most popular works appear to have been a series of Orchestral tone poems like In a Persian Market that incorporate exoticism and demonstrate the high quality of his Orchestration. The Orchestral version of this piece included a Vocal line of male Voices calling for baksheesh which is absent from the Organ arrangement.Composer and arranger Albert W Ketèlbey is now almost unknown except for his work Bells Across the Meadows but until the time of the Second World War he strode the country’s musical stage like a giant of light musical entertainment. In 1929 he was declared ‘Britain’s greatest composer’ according to the number of performances of his works. Over the course of his career he was a church Organist musical director at London’s Vaudeville Theatre editor to several music publishing firms and Music Director of the Columbia Gramophone Company.

Composer and arranger Albert W Ketèlbey is now almost unknown except for his work Bells Across the Meadows but until the time of the Second World War he strode the country’s musical stage like a giant of light musical entertainment. In 1929 he was declared ‘Britain’s greatest composer’ according to the number of performances of his works. Over the course of his career he was a church Organist musical director at London’s Vaudeville Theatre editor to several music publishing firms and Music Director of the Columbia Gramophone Company.His most popular works appear to be a series of Orchestral tone poems like Sanctuary Of The Heart based on a verse from hisown poem In a Monastery Garden printed in the score.

William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) was a British organist composer and pedagogue. He started playing the organ at an early age becoming a well-known recitalist by the age of 14. He studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music where he himself later taught. His best known work is the orchestral tone poem Aurora but he also wrote many popular Organ works which are now experiencing a resurgence. Four Epilogues was written in 1953 and dedicated to Frederick Geoghegan who at the time was at the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer in Calgary Alberta.