Pianist/organist composers

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It has been suggested i start a new thread on the topic of organist/pianist composers and their works. Major piano composers who also wrote works for organ.

Of course, going back far enough, there weren't any pianos, so it was a matter of keyboards.

How many on here also play the organ? I would say I am mainly a pianist, who sometimes plays the organ.

Bach of course. so many major preludes and fugues, and his passacaglia and fugue. Many transcriptions of his chorale preludes.

Frank, chorales and other works. Major figure in French organ literature.

Messiaen of course

Mendelssohn wrote for organ, but I am not familiar with his works. Don't really go for his piano music.

Brahms, wrote late chorale preludes. Strangely evocative, but I wouldn't put them on the same level as his late piano works.

Liszt. 3 major organ works, which I rate as highly as his best piano music
- Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
- Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
- Prelude and fugue on BACH which is fun but I rate lower than the two above.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Mendelssohn wrote for organ, but I am not familiar with his works.

Fanny Mendelssohn also wrote for organ, though her compositions for chamber, orchestra, and solo piano are much more numerous.

Now that I think about it, I really need to listen to more Fanny Mendelssohn. I've only heard one or two of her hundreds of pieces.

[dizzyfingers]

What do organ and piano have in common?

They both have keyboards. 

That's about it.