Fisk Opus 148

St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., November 14

“Miss no opportunity to practice on the organ; there is no instrument that takes such immediate revenge on the impure and the careless, in composition as well as in the playing, as the organ.”¹ This description from Schumann was likely referring to the organ’s ability to execute—one might even say affinity for—complex counterpoint.

Died June 3 in Cleveland, Ohio

Three manuals and pedal, 29 pipe ranks, 15 digital ranks, 38 stops, 1,753 pipes