| Description |
xii, 626 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 600-611) , index, and opus list (p. 550-599). |
| Contents |
Prelude -- The Austin Organ Company -- Austin Organs, Incorporated. |
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Chart: Austin family members in the Austin Organ Company and Austin Organs, Incorporated -- Part I. Prelude. Introduction ; The Clough and Warren years: 1893-99 ; Clough and Warren organs ; A landmark organ: opus 22 -- Part II. The Austin Organ Company. A new company ; A new century: 1900-1901 ; Carlton C. Michell ; The Hope-Jones experience ; New directions: 1904-1909 ; Four-manual organs, 1904-1909 ; The Wanamaker connection ; Bigger is better, 1910-1914 ; Tonal design, 1910-1914 ; Four-manual organs, 1910-1914 ; Two exposition organs, 1914-1915 ; Through World War I, 1915-1919 ; Tonal design, 1915-1919 ; Four- and five-manual organs, 1915-1919 ; Years of plenty, 1920-1924 ; Tonal design, 1920-1924 ; Four-manual church organs, 1920-1924 ; Other notable four-manual organs, 1920-1924 ; The top of the mountain, 1925-1929 ; Tonal design, 1925-1929 ; Four-manual church organs, 1925-1929 ; Four-manual concert organs, 1925-1929 ; AOC finale, 1930-1935 ; Tonal design, 1930-1935 ; Three- and four-manual organs, 1930-1935 ; Looking back -- Part III. Austin Organs, Incorporated. Creating a new company, 1937-1941 ; Tonal design, 1937-1941 ; World War II and after, 1941-1949 ; Introducing Piper, 1949-1950 ; Let the good times begin! 1950-1954 ; Tonal design, 1950-1954 ; Happy days, 1955-1959 ; Tonal design, 1955-1959 ; A turbulent time, 1960-1969 ; Tonal design, 1960-1969 ; New problems, new solutions, 1970-1979 ; Tonal design, 1970-1979 ; Something old, something new, 1980-1989 ; Tonal design, 1980-1989 ; "Proud of our past ... focused on our future" ; Tonal design in the 1990s -- Appendix and opus list. Historic Austin Organs ; English/Austin dictionary ; Austin "firsts" and "lasts" ; Opus list. |
| Summary |
John Austin pioneered the transformation of complicated organ mechanisms into marvels of elegant simplicity and reliability, taming the problems of early electric-action pipe organs and paving the way to great success in becoming the organbuilder of choice to America's "carriage trade" churches and institutions. Through more than a century, the style of Austin organs has echoed general trends in American musical taste. Those trends and the political and economic situations that molded the 20th-century organ bring to sharper focus a comprehension of the past century's music, musicians and organs. Read of one man's plan to acquire all of America's large organbuilders, of the Austin firm's relationship to other firms, of the people who have designed, built, and sold Austin organs, and of major organbuilders associated with Austin including Robert Hope-Jones, Robert Pier Elliot, Carlton Michell, Edwin Votey, Philipp Wirsching, James B. Jamison, Felix and Otto Schoenstein, Richard Piper, Henry Willis, and dozens more. Histories of famous Austin organs are recounted in detail. Tonal and technical descriptions of many organs illustrate instruments of various sizes and purposes in each decade. Of 2,781 Austin organs built through 1999, several early ones survive with few opus 2 built in 1894 in Detroit; opus 22 (1898) in Hartford, Connecticut; and opus 92 (1903) in Denver. Great municipal organs of the 1910s and 1920s, exuberant expressions of civic pride, still thrill audiences with majestic tuttis and rainbows of contrasting tone colors. As this book comes off the press, large organs completed in the factory at Hartford, Connecticut, crown more than a hundred years of Austin organs. |
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Austin Organ Company -- History.
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Austin Organs, Inc. -- History.
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Organ (Musical instrument) -- United States -- History.
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Austin Organ Company https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QH7JmmJWwQ39GvhXKRxdY7R (OCoLC)fst00786078
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Austin Organs, Inc. (OCoLC)fst00786079
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Organ (Musical instrument) (OCoLC)fst01047572
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq (OCoLC)fst01204155
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Organ Historical Society. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QH7Jmrd9Kvc8fR9Fmhy7hgg
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ochse, Orpha Caroline, 1925- Austin organs. [Richmond, Va.] : Organ Historical Society, ©2001 (OCoLC)654864306 |
| ISBN |
0913499188 |
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9780913499184 |
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