Instrument
Organ sheet music
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Organ music divides on one practical question before any question of style: does it need pedals. A large part of the published catalogue is written for manuals only, which makes it playable on a two-manual instrument without a pedalboard, or indeed on a piano at a pinch.
The listing below covers classical organ repertoire, liturgical and service music, and collections for smaller instruments. Where an edition states its requirements we surface them on the result.
Ave Maria
- Organ
Organ sonatas
- Organ
Gašper Jereb - Christmas cantata
- Piano
- Organ
- Choir
Ignacy Krzyżanowski - Gavotte, Op.56
- Piano
- Organ
- Trombone
Ignacy Krzyżanowski - 2 Nocturnes, Op.50
- Piano
- Organ
- Cello
Musette
- Piano
- Harp
- Organ
Sketch in Eb, Op. 47 No. 4
- Piano
- Organ
1. Prelude
- Piano
- Organ
6. Pastorale
- Piano
- Organ
Chanson Russe: No. 15 from '24 Pieces Caracteristiques pour la Jeunesse', Op. 34
- Piano
- Organ
Regret: No. 5 from '24 Pieces Caracteristiques pour la jeunesse', Op. 34
- Piano
- Organ
8. Andante (Anon.)
- Piano
- Organ
1. Basse et Dessus de Trompette
- Organ
2. Plein-jeu (Cl?rambault)
- Organ
3. Dernier Couplet du Gloria: Amen (F. Couperin)
- Organ
4. Cinquieme Couplet du Gloria: Domine Deus (F. Couperin)
- Organ
5. Musette in A
- Organ
6. Musette in G
- Organ
7. Noel avec Variations en re mineur
- Organ
8. Recit de Tierce en Taille
- Organ
9. Deux Points d'Orgue en Triple (P?rotin)
- Organ
10. Veni Creator
- Organ
11. Coelestis urbs Jerusalem
- Organ
24. Chant Arabe
- Organ
- Harp
1. Offertoire sur des Noels
- Organ
2. Suite Gothique, Op. 25: Pirere a Notre-Dame
- Organ
4. Alleluia
- Organ
6. Marche de Fete
- Organ
7. Marche Nuptiale
- Organ
9. Cantabile
- Organ
10. Piece Heroique
- Organ
11. Choral No. 3
- Organ
Zwei Stucke aus dem Buxheimer Orgelbuch - d-Moll/D minor
- Organ
Magnificat du 5eme ton - C-Dur/C major
- Organ
1. Larghetto
- Organ
2. Fuga
- Organ
- Cello
3. Toccata Cromatica
- Organ
4. Toccata
- Organ
5. Canzone IV
- Organ
6. Elevazione
- Organ
8. Aria da Chiesa
- Organ
9. Allegro
- Organ
- Cello
10. Sonata No. 2: Adagio
- Organ
11. Sonata No. 7: Preludio ed Assai moderato
- Organ
Track 1: Complete version with SATB Chorus
- Piano
- Organ
- Flute
Track 2: Accompaniment only
- Piano
- Organ
- Flute
Away In A Manger
- Organ
- Recorder
Pavane
- Organ
- Guitar
- harpsichord
Buying guide
What to know before you buy
Pedals, manuals and registration
Organ scores are written on three staves — two for the hands, one for the feet — unless they are manuals only, in which case two staves suffice. Manuals-only collections exist precisely because many church and practice instruments have no pedalboard, and they are a large and useful part of the catalogue rather than a beginner's compromise.
Registration — which stops to draw — is where editions differ most. Some specify in detail for a particular historical instrument; others give only a general indication because no two organs are alike. Neither approach is wrong, but a score registered for a French Romantic instrument will need rethinking on an English parish organ.
Liturgical and service music
A great deal of organ publishing is functional: voluntaries, hymn accompaniments, service music and seasonal collections. These are bought for use rather than study, and the practical criteria are length, difficulty and whether the piece fits the moment in the service it is needed for. Collections are usually better value than single pieces here.
Hymnody in particular is heavily out of copyright, and the free archives we index hold enormous quantities of it, including full harmonisations.
Bach and the core repertoire
The central organ repertoire — Bach above all, then Buxtehude, Franck, Widor, Vierne and Messiaen for the later period — is well served by both scholarly editions and free scans. For Bach specifically the editorial questions are real: ornamentation, articulation and even attribution differ between editions, and the free nineteenth-century scans reflect performance practice that has since been substantially revised.
For reading and for learning notes, a free scan is entirely adequate. For anything you will perform, a modern edition is worth the outlay.
Common questions
- What does "manuals only" mean?
- The piece needs only the keyboards, not the pedalboard, so it can be played on an instrument without pedals. It is written on two staves rather than three. Manuals-only collections are a substantial part of the catalogue, not just beginner material.
- Can I play organ music on a piano?
- Manuals-only pieces transfer reasonably well. Anything with a pedal part does not, because the pedal line is frequently the bass of the harmony and cannot simply be dropped. Some publishers issue piano arrangements of organ works for exactly this reason.
- Why do editions specify different stops?
- Because no two organs have the same stops. Registration in a score is a suggestion shaped by the instrument the composer or editor had in mind, and it has to be adapted to whatever you are actually playing.