Dr. Butz Musikverlag announces the release of The Haarlem Essays, a special anniversary collection (in English) of articles, interviews, and portraits for organ lovers and ‘Haarlem’ devotees. One of the world’s best-known centers of organ music, based around St. Bavo’s Church and its legendary Müller organ, Haarlem regularly hosts an organ festival, improvisation competition (first held in 1951), and masterclasses in connection with the summer academy for organists.
The Haarlem Essays is being published in celebration of the 50th Organ Festival and the 50th Improvisation Competition in 2014; it contains articles by scholars and authors including Ton Koopman, Christoph Wolff, Peter Planyavsky, Roman Summereder, Jean-Claude Zehnder, Joris Verdin, Hans Fidom, and Ran Raas.
Dr. Butz Musikverlag, one of Europe’s leading publishing houses for organ and choral music, produced the 480-page Haarlem Essays as a hardcover book with more than 150 illustrations and examples, all the competition themes, and seven winning organ improvisations on a CD (80 minutes). It is available through the Organ Historical Society (www.ohscatalog.org) or through Dr. Butz Musikverlag (www.butz-verlag.de); e-mail: [email protected].
