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The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature.

Living organists

Australia

David Drury (born 1961)

Austria

Martin Haselböck (born 1954)
Brett Leighton (born 1955)
Matthias Maierhofer (born 1979)
Peter Planyavsky (born 1947)

Belgium

Jan Van Landeghem (born 1954)
Ignace Michiels (born 1963)
Luc Ponet (born 1959)

Bulgaria

Alexandra Fol (born 1981)
Neva Krysteva (born 1946)

Canada

Denis Bédard (born 1950)
Desmond Gaspar (born 1970)
Paul Halley (born 1952)
Rachel Mahon (born 1989)
John Tuttle (born 1946)

Croatia

Ivan Božičević (born 1961)
Pavao Mašić (born 1980)
Umberto Kostanić (born 1995)

Czech Republic

Pavel Kohout (born 1976)

Denmark

Frederik Magle (born 1977)

Finland

Kalevi Kiviniemi (born 1958)

France

Michel Bouvard (born 1958)
Thierry Escaich (born 1965)
Jérôme Faucheur (born 1953)
Naji Hakim (born 1955)
Olivier Latry (born 1962)
Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 1939)
Michael Matthes (born 1966)
Thierry Mechler (born 1962)
Daniel Roth (born 1942)
Nariné Simonian (born 1966)
Marina Tchebourkina (born 1965)
Johann Vexo (born 1978)

Germany

Daniel Beckmann (born 1980)
Andreas Boltz (born 1964)
Winfried Bönig (born 1959)
Gabriel Dessauer (born 1955)
Matthias Eisenberg (born 1956)
Stefan Engels (born 1967)
Clemens Ganz (born 1935)
Zsolt Gárdonyi (born 1946)
Felix Hell (born 1985)
Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945)
Rudolf Kelber (born 1948)
Helmut Kickton (born 1956)
Otto Maria Krämer (born 1964)
Edgar Krapp (born 1947)
Ludger Lohmann (born 1954)
Petra Morath-Pusinelli (born 1967)
Mathias Rehfeldt (born 1986)
Wolfgang Rübsam (born 1946)
Wolfgang Seifen (born 1956)
Ludger Stühlmeyer (born 1961)
Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 1939)
Elke Voelker (born 1968)
Harald Vogel (born 1941)
Martin Welzel (born 1972)

Hungary

Laszlo Fassang (born 1973)
Bálint Karosi (born 1979)
Balázs Szabó (born 1985)

Italy

Domenico Morgante (born 1956)
Arturo Sacchetti (born 1941)

Ireland

Gerard Gillen
Ronan Murray (born 1977)

Latvia

Iveta Apkalna (born 1976)
Aivars Kalējs (born 1951)
Jevgenija Lisicina (born 1942)

Monaco (Principality)

Marc Giacone (born 1954)

Netherlands

Arjan Breukhoven (born 1962)
Christine Kamp (born 1966)
Ton Koopman (born 1944)
Ben van Oosten (born 1955)
Jan Verschuren (born 1962)
Sietze de Vries (born 1973)

New Zealand

Douglas Mews (born 1956)

Norway

Jon Laukvik (born 1952)
Kåre Nordstoga (born 1954)

Philippines

Armando Salarza (born 1966)

Poland

Krzysztof Czerwiński (born 1980)

Russia

Marina Tchebourkina (born 1965)

Singapore

Evelyn Lim

South Africa

Barry Smith (born 1939)

Spain

Montserrat Torrent i Serra (born 1926)

Sweden

Hans Davidsson (born 1958)
Hans-Ola Ericsson (born 1958)
Hans Fagius (born 1951)

Switzerland

Guy Bovet (born 1942)
Daniel Chorzempa (born 1944)
Lionel Rogg (born 1936)

United Kingdom

United States

Deceased organists

Austria

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Hans Haselböck (1928–1954)
Susi Jeans (1911–1993)

Belgium

Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (1823–1881)

Canada

Gerald Bales (1919–2002)
H. Hugh Bancroft (1904–1988)
Gérard Caron (1916–1986)
Douglas Clarke (1893–1962)
Antoine Dessane (1826–1873)
Christopher Jackson (1948–2015)
Ernest MacMillan (1893–1973)
Theodore Frederic Molt (1795–1856)
Charles Peaker (1899–1978)
Healey Willan (1880–1968)

Czech republic (Bohemia)

František Xaver Brixi (1732–1771)
Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky (1684–1742)
Petr Eben (1929–2007)
Josef Seger (1716–1782)

Denmark

Grethe Krogh (1928–2018)
Mogens Wöldike (1897–1988)

France

Jehan Alain (1911–1940)
Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
Augustin Barié (1883–1915)
Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897)
Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944)
Michel Chapuis (1930–2017)
Pierre Cochereau (1924–1984)
Edouard Commette (1883–1967)
Marie-Anne Couperin (born 1677)
Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)
Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006)
André Fleury (1903–1995)
César Franck (1822–1890), from Belgium
Eugène Gigout (1844–1925)
Jean Guillou (1930–2019)
Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
André Isoir (1935–2016)
Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
Marcel Lanquetuit (1894–1985)
Gaston Litaize (1909–1991)
Paul de Maleingreau (1887–1956)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
Henri Mulet (1878–1967)
Pierre Pincemaille (1956–2018)
René Saorgin (1928–2015)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)
Louis Thiry (1935–2019)
Charles Tournemire (1870–1939)
Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)

Germany

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Joseph Siegmund Bachmann (1754–1825)
Melchior Hoffmann (1679–1715)
Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
Franz Lehrndorfer (1928–2013)
Theodor Pröpper (1896–1979)
Karl Richter (1926–1981)
Karl Straube (1873–1956)
Käte van Tricht (1909–1996)
Helmut Walcha (1907–1991)
Gerd Zacher (1929–2014)

Hungary

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
János Sebestyén (1931–2012)

Italy

Costanzo Antegnati (1549–1624)
Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886–1962)
Fernando Germani (1906–1998)
Michelangelo Rossi (1601–1656)
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1929-2017)

Netherlands

Willem Bartholomeus (1825–1892)
Klaas Bolt (1927–1990)
Piet Kee (1927–2018)
Ewald Kooiman (1938–2009)
Gustav Leonhardt (1928–2012)
Liuwe Tamminga (1953–2021)

Nigeria

Fela Sowande (1905–1987)

Spain

Joan Aulí (1796–1869)

Sweden

Harald Fryklöf (1882–1918)
Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger (1719–1780)

Switzerland

Alfred Baum (1904–1993)
Fridolin Sicher (1490–1546)

United Kingdom

Edward Bairstow (1874–1946)
Jennifer Bate (1944–2020)
E. Power Biggs (1906–1977)^{[note 1]}
John Birch (1929-2012)
Hugh Blair (1864-1932)
Jonathan Blewitt (1782–1853)
Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)
William Hutchins Callcott (1807–1882)
William Carnaby (1772–1839)
Stephen Cleobury (1948–2019)
Norman Cocker (1889-1953)
Marmaduke Conway (1885-1961)
Melville Cook (1912-1993)
Robert Cooke (1768–1814)
Lionel Dakers (1924-2003)
Nicholas Danby (1935-1997)
Harold Darke (1888-1976)
Christopher Dearnley (1930-2000)
Ralph Downes (1904–1993)
John Dykes Bower (1905-1981)
Catherine Ennis (1955-2020)
Roger Fisher (1936-2021)
Alfred Robert Gaul (1837–1913)
Harvey Grace (1874-1944)
Douglas Guest (1916-1996)
Joseph John Harris (1799–1869)
William Henry Harris (1883–1973)
Joseph Binns Hart (1794–1844)
Philip Hart (died 1749)
Basil Harwood (1859–1949)
James Hawkins (1662–1729)
Edward Heath (1916-2005)
James Heseltine (1690–1763)
John Larkin Hopkins (1819–1873)
Martin How (1931-2022)
Michael Howard (1922–2002)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Peter Hurford (1930–2019)
Donald Hunt (1930-2018)
Randolph Jewett (1602–1675)
John Keeble (1711–1786)
Joseph Kelway (1702–1782)
Thomas Kelway (c. 1695 – 1744)
Philip Knapton (1788–1833)
Gerald Knight (1908-1979)
George Jackson Lambert (1794–1880)
Richard Langdon (1729–1803)
Philip Ledger (1937-2012)
Henry Ley (1904-1993)
Richard Hey Lloyd (1933-2021)
William Henry Longhurst (1819–1904)
Albert Mallinson (1870–1946)
Colin Mawby (1936-2019)
Lucian Nethsingha (1936-2021)
Boris Ord (1897-1961)
Jane Parker-Smith (1950-2020)
John Parsons (1563–1623)
Martin Peerson (c. 1572 – c. 1650)
Josiah Pittman (1816–1886)
Simon Preston (1938-2022)
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
James Kendrick Pyne (1852–1938)
Noel Rawsthorne (1929–2019)
Vaughan Richardson (died 1729)
John Robinson (1682–1762)
Brian Runnett (1935-1970)
John Sanders (1933-2003)
David Sanger (1947–2010)
John Scott (1956–2015)
Bruce Steane (1866-1938)
Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868–1942)
Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Christopher Tambling (1964-2015)
George Thalben-Ball (1896–1987)
Stanley Vann (1910-2010)
William Litton Viner (1790–1867)
Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Thomas Forbes Walmisley (1783–1866)
Samuel Wesley (1766–1837)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876)
Frederick Wilson Whitehead (1863–1926)
David Willcocks (1919–2015)
Arthur Wills (1926-2020)

United States

Frank W. Asper (1892-1973)
Herman Berlinski (1910–2010)^{[note 2]}
Leon Berry (1914-1996)
E. Power Biggs (1906–1977)^{[note 1]}
David Boe (1936–2020)
Catharine Crozier (1914-2003)
Carlo Curley (1952–2012)
Garth Edmundson (1892–1971)
Richard Ellsasser (1926–1972)
Dan Federici (1950–2008)
Charles B. Fisk (1925-1983)^[1]
Virgil Fox (1912–1980)
Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881–1945)
Robert Glasgow (1925-2008)
Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
Eddie Layton (1925–2004)
Leonard MacClain (1899–1967)
Byron Melcher (1929–2012)
T. Tertius Noble (1867–1953)
Richard Purvis (1913–1994)
Alexander Schreiner (1901–1987)
John Serry, Sr. (1915–2003)
Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)
Frederick Swann (1931–2022)
Carl Weinrich (1904–1991)
Berj Zamkochian (1929–2004)

Notes

^ ^a ^b Born in Essex, England. Immigrated to US in 1930.
^ Born in Leipzig, Germany. Immigrated to US in 1941.

See also

References

^ "Charles B. Fisk". ahf.nuclearmuseum.org. Atomic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

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