List of organists
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature.
Living organists
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
- Michel Bouvard
- Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin
- Thierry Escaich
- Jérôme Faucheur
- Naji Hakim
- Olivier Latry
- Jean-Pierre Leguay
- Michael Matthes
- Thierry Mechler
- Daniel Roth
- Nariné Simonian
- Marina Tchebourkina
- Johann Vexo
Germany
- Daniel Beckmann
- Andreas Boltz
- Winfried Bönig
- Gabriel Dessauer
- Matthias Eisenberg
- Stefan Engels
- Zsolt Gárdonyi
- Felix Hell
- Hans Uwe Hielscher
- Rudolf Kelber
- Helmut Kickton
- Otto Maria Krämer
- Edgar Krapp
- Ludger Lohmann
- Petra Morath-Pusinelli
- Mathias Rehfeldt
- Wolfgang Rübsam
- Wolfgang Seifen
- Ludger Stühlmeyer
- Zsigmond Szathmáry
- Elke Voelker
- Harald Vogel
- Martin Welzel
- Hans-André Stamm
Hungary
Italy
Ireland
Latvia
Monaco (Principality)
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Russia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- James Anderson-Besant
- Charles Andrews
- Malcolm Archer
- Martin Baker
- Sarah Baldock
- Harry Bramma
- Kerry Beaumont
- Jonathan Bielby
- Kevin Bowyer
- David Briggs
- John Butt
- Andrew Cantrill
- Ralph Cupper
- Stephen Darlington
- Katherine Dienes
- Clive Driskill-Smith
- Henry Fairs
- Stephen Farr
- Jeremy Filsell
- David Goode
- Christopher Gray
- Claudia Grinnell
- Charles Harrison
- Christopher Herrick
- David Hill
- Daniel Hyde
- Rupert Jeffcoat
- John Kitchen
- James Lancelot
- Anna Lapwood
- Adrian Lucas
- Sarah MacDonald
- Wayne Marshall
- Roy Massey
- Andrew Millington
- Philip Moore
- Greg Morris
- Daniel Moult
- Peter Nardone
- Andrew Nethsingha
- Michael Nicholas
- James O'Donnell
- Nigel Ogden
- Adrian Partington
- David Price
- Tim Rishton
- Barry Rose
- Roger Sayer
- Gordon Stewart
- Jeremy Suter
- Richard Tanner
- Anne Marsden Thomas
- Alan Thurlow
- Ian Tracey
- Thomas Trotter
- Colin Walsh
- Mark Wardell
- Gillian Weir
- John Scott Whiteley
- Marcus Wibberley
- Carol Williams
- Alan Wilson
United States
- George C. Baker
- Robert Bardwell
- Diane Meredith Belcher
- James Biery
- Diane Bish
- Grace Brummel
- Cameron Carpenter
- Chelsea Chen
- Alcée Chriss III
- Clay Christiansen
- James David Christie
- Ken Cowan
- David Dahl
- Richard Elliott
- Martin Ellis
- Larry Ferrari
- Jeremy Filsell
- Alexander Frey
- Barbara Harbach
- David Hegarty
- Cory Henry
- David Higgs
- Christopher Houlihan
- Paul Jacobs
- Dennis James
- Martin Jean
- Bálint Karosi
- James Kibbie
- Peter Krasinski
- Nathan Laube
- Joan Lippincott
- John Longhurst
- Douglas Major
- Haig Mardirosian
- Alan Morrison
- Thomas Murray
- Anthony Newman
- Karel Paukert
- William Porter
- George Ritchie
- Catherine Rodland
- Wolfgang Rübsam
- Geoffrey Simon
- Carole Terry
- Kent Tritle
- Andrew E. Unsworth
- Guy Whatley
- Carol Williams
- Todd Wilson
Deceased organists
Austria
Belgium
Canada
- Gerald Bales
- H. Hugh Bancroft
- Gérard Caron
- Douglas Clarke
- Antoine Dessane
- Christopher Jackson
- Rachel Laurin
- Ernest MacMillan
- Theodore Frederic Molt
- Charles Peaker
- Healey Willan
Czech republic (Bohemia)
Denmark
Finland
France
- Jehan Alain
- Marie-Claire Alain
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Augustin Barié
- Léon Boëllmann
- Joseph Bonnet
- Michel Chapuis
- Pierre Cochereau
- Edouard Commette
- Marie-Anne Couperin
- 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
- René Saorgin
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Albert Schweitzer
- Louis Thiry
- Charles Tournemire
- Louis Vierne
- Charles-Marie Widor
Germany
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Joseph Siegmund Bachmann
- Clemens Ganz
- Melchior Hoffmann
- Gottfried August Homilius
- Franz Lehrndorfer
- Theodor Pröpper
- Karl Richter
- Karl Straube
- Käte van Tricht
- Helmut Walcha
- Gerd Zacher
Hungary
Italy
- Costanzo Antegnati
- Marco Enrico Bossi
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
- Fernando Germani
- Michelangelo Rossi
- Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
Netherlands
Nigeria
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- Walter Alcock
- Edward Bairstow
- Jennifer Bate
- E. Power Biggs
- John Birch
- Hugh Blair
- Jonathan Blewitt
- Graham Blyth
- Herbert Brewer
- William Hutchins Callcott
- William Carnaby
- Stephen Cleobury
- Norman Cocker
- Marmaduke Conway
- Melville Cook
- Robert Cooke
- Arthur Thomas Corfe
- Joseph Corfe
- G. D. Cunningham
- Lionel Dakers
- Nicholas Danby
- Harold Darke
- Christopher Dearnley
- Ralph Downes
- John Dykes Bower
- Catherine Ennis
- Roger Fisher
- Alfred Robert Gaul
- Harvey Grace
- Douglas Guest
- Joseph John Harris
- William Henry Harris
- Joseph Binns Hart
- Philip Hart
- Basil Harwood
- James Hawkins
- Edward Heath
- James Heseltine
- John Larkin Hopkins
- Martin How
- Michael Howard
- Herbert Howells
- Peter Hurford
- Donald Hunt
- Randolph Jewett
- John Keeble
- Joseph Kelway
- Thomas Kelway
- Philip Knapton
- Gerald Knight
- Nicolas Kynaston
- George Jackson Lambert
- Richard Langdon
- Philip Ledger
- Henry Ley
- Simon Lindley
- Richard Hey Lloyd
- William Henry Longhurst
- Albert Mallinson
- Colin Mawby
- William Henry Monk
- Martin Neary
- Lucian Nethsingha
- Boris Ord
- Jane Parker-Smith
- John Parsons
- Martin Peerson
- Josiah Pittman
- Simon Preston
- Henry Purcell
- James Kendrick Pyne
- Noel Rawsthorne
- Vaughan Richardson
- John Robinson
- Brian Runnett
- John Sanders
- David Sanger
- John Scott
- Bruce Steane
- Haldane Campbell Stewart
- Herbert Sumsion
- Christopher Tambling
- George Thalben-Ball
- John Tomkins
- Stanley Vann
- William Litton Viner
- Henry Walford Davies
- Thomas Forbes Walmisley
- Samuel Wesley
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley
- John Webster
- Henry Westrop
- Allan Wicks
- Frederick Wilson Whitehead
- David Willcocks
- Arthur Wills
United States
- Frank W. Asper
- Herman Berlinski
- Leon Berry
- E. Power Biggs
- David Boe
- Del Castillo
- Twinkie Clark
- Catharine Crozier
- Carlo Curley
- Garth Edmundson
- Richard Ellsasser
- Dan Federici
- Charles B. Fisk
- Virgil Fox
- Charles Henry Galloway
- Harvey Bartlett Gaul
- Robert Glasgow
- Gladys Goodding
- Gerre Hancock
- Eddie Layton
- Leonard MacClain
- Byron Melcher
- Michael Murray
- T. Tertius Noble
- Barbara Owen
- Richard Purvis
- James Thomas Quarles
- Alexander Schreiner
- John Serry, Sr.
- Leo Sowerby
- Frank Speller
- Frederick Swann
- Carl Weinrich
- Berj Zamkochian