Ray Stamford wrote: >Could some kind person please identify this work (it may be in G/E min.) >with opus no. etc and give me the number of a CD which contains it. ... I asked some organ experts on another list, and submit the following, hope it helps: Josef Rheinberger (1839 - 1901) was the one composer of note to come out of the Principality of Liechtenstein, although he spent most of his adult life in Munich. (His mother came from the Romansch-speaking canton of Grisons in Switzerland.) The Passacaglia for organ is a movement from his Organ Sonata No. 8 in E Minor, op. 132, composed in 1882. He wrote 20 organ sonatas altogether --- although they are really suites, rather than sonatas in the classical sense. He also wrote two concertos for organ and orchestra. In addition, he composed four sonatas for piano, several orchestral and chamber works, Masses and much sacred music, of which the Requiem is occasionally still performed today. He was a professor of music at the Munich Conservatory and his many pupils included Humperdinck (of Hansel and Gretel fame), Wolf-Ferrari (Italian opera composer), American composers Horatio Parker and George Chadwick (head honchos on the American music scene in their time), and conductor/composer Wilhelm Furtwangler. ================= Rheinberger's Organ Sonata No.8 is listed in the British Catalogue on the following three CD releases:- (Eye) EOS5003. (Amph) PHICD131. (Mote) CD11491 (Gramophone Review date for this one is August 1991). Dave Runnion http://mp3.com/serafinotrio