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A popular Victorian composer of organ and choral music

Table of Contents

PREFACE   xi
1. Beginnings   1
2. American Culture, Hartford, and Church Music, 1862-71   9
3. Spreading the Gospel of Organ Music   35
4. Boston and New Directions   57
5. New York, The Centennial Meditation, and Opera   73
6. More Choral Successes   89
7. Final Years and Legacy   103

NOTES   109
SELECTED WORKS   119
FURTHER READING   123
STOP LISTS FOR IMPORTANT BUCK ORGANS   127
COMPACT DISC CONTENTS   129
INDEX   131

ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOW PAGE XVII

About the Author

N. Lee Orr is a professor and chair of music history and literature at Georgia State University. An organist and conductor, he is also the author or editor of many books, including Dudley Buck: American Victorian Choral Music.

Reviews

"An insightful, readable, musically informed, and sympathetic portrait of a major American composer for a contemporary audience." Gayle Sherwood Magee, author of Charles Ives Reconsidered "An enjoyable and insightful book that will prove invaluable to anyone interested in organ music, choral music, and the history of composition and performance in nineteenthcentury America." R. Allen Lott, author of From Paris to Peoria: How European Piano Virtuosos Brought Classical Music to the American Heartland