List of organists
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature.
Living organists
Australia
- David Drury
- Douglas Lawrence
- Graeme Morton
- Christopher Wrench
Austria
- Martin Haselböck
- Brett Leighton
- Matthias Maierhofer
- Peter Planyavsky
Belgium
- Ignace Michiels
- Luc Ponet
Bulgaria
- Neva Krysteva
- Alexandra Fol
Canada
- Denis Bédard
- Desmond Gaspar
- Paul Halley
- John Tuttle
Croatia
- Ivan Božičević
- Pavao Mašić
Czech Republic
- Pavel Kohout
Denmark
- Frederik Magle
Finland
- Kalevi Kiviniemi
France
- Michel Bouvard
- Marie-Anne Couperin
- Thierry Escaich
- Jérôme Faucheur
- Naji Hakim
- Olivier Latry
- Jean-Pierre Leguay
- Michael Matthes
- Daniel Roth
- René Saorgin
- Nariné Simonian
- Marina Tchebourkina
- Louis Thiry
- Johann Vexo
- Thierry Mechler
Germany
- Daniel Beckmann
- Andreas Boltz
- Winfried Bönig
- Gabriel Dessauer
- Matthias Eisenberg
- Stefan Engels
- Clemens Ganz
- Zsolt Gárdonyi
- Felix Hell
- Hans Uwe Hielscher
- Rudolf Kelber
- Otto Maria Krämer
- Edgar Krapp
- Ludger Lohmann
- Mathias Rehfeldt
- Wolfgang Rübsam
- Wolfgang Seifen
- Ludger Stühlmeyer
- Zsigmond Szathmáry
- Elke Voelker
- Harald Vogel
- Martin Welzel
Hungary
- Laszlo Fassang
- Bálint Karosi
- Balázs Szabó
Italy
- Graziella Concas
- Arturo Sacchetti
Ireland
- Gerard Gillen
- Ronan Murray
Latvia
- Aivars Kalējs
- Iveta Apkalna
- Jevgenija Lisicina
Monaco (Principality)
- Marc Giacone
Netherlands
- Ton Koopman
- Liuwe Tamminga
- Ben van Oosten
- Jan Verschuren
- Arjan Breukhoven
- Christine Kamp
New Zealand
- Douglas Mews
Norway
- Jon Laukvik
- Kåre Nordstoga
Philippines
- Armando Salarza
Poland
- Krzysztof Czerwiński
Russia
- Marina Tchebourkina
Singapore
- Evelyn Lim
South Africa
- Barry Smith
Spain
- Montserrat Torrent i Serra
Sweden
- Hans Davidsson
- Hans-Ola Ericsson
- Hans Fagius
Switzerland
- Guy Bovet
- Daniel Chorzempa
- Lionel Rogg
United Kingdom
- Charles Andrews
- Malcolm Archer
- Sarah Baldock
- Kerry Beaumont
- Graham Blyth
- David Briggs
- Kevin Bowyer
- Martin Baker
- John Butt
- Andrew Cantrill
- Ralph Cupper
- Katherine Dienes
- Clive Driskill-Smith
- Henry Fairs
- Stephen Farr
- Jeremy Filsell
- Roger Fisher
- David Goode
- Charles Harrison
- Christopher Herrick
- Rupert Jeffcoat
- James Lancelot
- Anna Lapwood
- Sarah MacDonald
- Wayne Marshall
- Greg Morris
- Daniel Moult
- Martin Neary
- Peter Nardone
- James O'Donnell
- Simon Preston
- Adrian Lucas
- David Price
- Tim Rishton
- Barry Rose
- Roger Sayer
- John Scott Whiteley
- Gordon Stewart
- Ian Tracey
- Thomas Trotter
- Mark Wardell
- Gillian Weir
- Marcus Wibberley
- Alan Wilson,
United States
- George C. Baker
- Robert Bardwell
- Diane Meredith Belcher
- James Biery
- Diane Bish
- David Boe
- Cameron Carpenter
- Chelsea Chen
- Clay Christiansen
- James David Christie
- Ken Cowan
- Richard Elliott
- David Dahl
- Martin Ellis
- Jeremy Filsell
- Alexander Frey
- Barbara Harbach
- David Hegarty
- Cory Henry
- David Higgs
- Christopher Houlihan
- Paul Jacobs
- Dennis James
- Martin Jean
- Bálint Karosi
- James Kibbie
- John Longhurst
- Joan Lippincott
- Haig Mardirosian
- Douglas Major
- Alan Morrison
- Michael Murray
- Thomas Murray
- Anthony Newman
- Karel Paukert
- William Porter
- George Ritchie
- Catherine Rodland
- Wolfgang Rübsam
- Geoffrey Simon
- Frank Speller
- Frederick Swann
- Carole Terry
- Kent Tritle
- Andrew E. Unsworth
- Guy Whatley
- Carol Williams
- Todd Wilson
Past organists
Austria
- Susi Jeans
- Anton Bruckner
Belgium
- Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens
Canada
- Gerald Bales
- H. Hugh Bancroft
- Gérard Caron
- Douglas Clarke
- Antoine Dessane
- Christopher Jackson
- Ernest MacMillan
- Charles Peaker
- Healey Willan
Czech republic (Bohemia)
- František Xaver Brixi
- Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky
- Josef Seger
- Petr Eben
Denmark
- Mogens Wöldike
France
- Jehan Alain
- Marie-Claire Alain
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Augustin Barié
- Léon Boëllmann
- Joseph Bonnet
- Michel Chapuis
- Pierre Cochereau
- Edouard Commette
- Jeanne Demessieux
- Théodore Dubois
- Marcel Dupré
- Maurice Duruflé
- Rolande Falcinelli
- André Fleury
- César Franck, from Belgium
- Eugène Gigout
- Jean Guillou
- Alexandre Guilmant
- André Isoir
- Jean Langlais
- Marcel Lanquetuit
- Gaston Litaize
- Paul de Maleingreau
- Olivier Messiaen
- Henri Mulet
- Pierre Pincemaille
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Albert Schweitzer
- Charles Tournemire
- Louis Vierne
- Charles-Marie Widor
Germany
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Joseph Siegmund Bachmann
- Melchior Hoffmann
- Gottfried August Homilius
- Franz Lehrndorfer
- Theodor Pröpper
- Karl Straube
- Karl Richter
- Käte van Tricht
- Helmut Walcha
- Gerd Zacher
Hungary
- Franz Liszt
- János Sebestyén
Italy
- Costanzo Antegnati
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Michelangelo Rossi
- Marco Enrico Bossi
- Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
- Fernando Germani
- Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
Netherlands
- Klaas Bolt
- Piet Kee
- Ewald Kooiman
- Gustav Leonhardt
Nigeria
- Fela Sowande
Spain
- Joan Aulí
Sweden
- Harald Fryklöf
- Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger
Switzerland
- Alfred Baum
- Fridolin Sicher
United Kingdom
- Edward Bairstow
- Jennifer Bate
- E. Power Biggs
- Jonathan Blewitt
- William Hutchins Callcott
- Stephen Cleobury
- Robert Cooke
- Ralph Downes
- Charles Henry Galloway
- Alfred Robert Gaul
- William Henry Harris
- Joseph Binns Hart
- Philip Hart
- Basil Harwood
- James Heseltine
- John Larkin Hopkins
- Michael Howard
- Peter Hurford
- Joseph Kelway
- Philip Knapton
- Richard Langdon
- William Henry Longhurst
- Albert Mallinson
- John Parsons
- Martin Peerson
- Josiah Pittman
- Henry Purcell
- James Kendrick Pyne
- Noel Rawsthorne
- Vaughan Richardson
- John Robinson
- David Sanger
- John Scott
- Haldane Campbell Stewart
- George Thalben-Ball
- William Litton Viner
- Thomas Forbes Walmisley
- Samuel Wesley
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley
- Frederick Wilson Whitehead,
- David Willcocks
United States
- Frank W. Asper
- Herman Berlinski
- E. Power Biggs
- Catharine Crozier
- Carlo Curley
- Garth Edmundson
- Richard Ellsasser
- Dan Federici
- Virgil Fox
- Harvey Bartlett Gaul
- Robert Glasgow
- Gerre Hancock
- Eddie Layton
- Leonard MacClain
- Byron Melcher
- T. Tertius Noble
- Richard Purvis
- Alexander Schreiner
- John Serry, Sr.
- Leo Sowerby
- Carl Weinrich
- Berj Zamkochian