''Maîtres contemporains de l'orgue'' is an eight-volume collection of books edited by

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and published by Éditions Maurice Senart from 1912. These books provide a selection of organ music pieces previously unpublished and composed by various contemporary composers from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The first six volumes are "for

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", so the pieces in them do not include a mandatory pedal part. According to the

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of the books, the collection was meant to be a "veritable encyclopædia of modern writing for the organ".

Preface

Composers in ''École française, volume I''

* Andlauer, Louis * Barié, Augustin * Bazelaire, Paul * Bentz, Jules * Blin, René * Bonnal, Ermend Joseph * Boucher, Roger * Boulanger, Nadia * Boulnois, Joseph * Canton, Léon * Cellier, Alexandre Eugène * Colinet, Arthur * Collin, Charles * Collin, Charles Augustin * Combes, Paul * Courtonne, Marcel * Dallier, Henri * Darros, Noël * Debat-Ponson, Georges * Decq, Adhémar * Delune, Louis * Delvincourt, Claude * Dodement, Arthur * Doney, Camille * Dumas, Louis * Dupré, Marcel * Eymieu, Henry * Fauchey, Paul * Fleuret, Daniel * Ganaye, Jean-Baptiste * Garbet, Gabriel * Gastoué, Amédée * George, Max * Gigout, Eugène * Gouard, Henri * Grigi, Constant Raoul * Grosjean, Ernest * Guilmant, Alexandre * Guiraud, Georges * Huré, Jean * Indy, Vincent d' * Jacob, Georges * Jacquemin, Louis * Jemain, Joseph * Kunc, Aloys * Lacroix, Eugène * Landais, Eugène

Composers in ''École française, volume II''

* Lefebvre, Charles * Le Guennant, Auguste * Letocart, Henri * Libert, Henri * Marichelle, Alfred * Marty, Adolphe * Massenet, Jules * Messerer, Henri * Mulet, Henri * Nibelle, Henri * Paraire, Saturnin * Perruchot, Louis-Lazare * Pessard, Émile * Philip, Achille * Pierné, Paul * Pineau, Charles * Planchet, Dominique-Charles * Pollet, Charles-Marie * Potiron, Henri * Prestat, Marie * Quef, Charles * Raffat de Bailhac, Amédée-Marie * Marc de RanseRanse, Marc de * Émile RatezRatez, Émile * Raugel, Félix Alphonse * Renard, Georges-François * Renaud, Albert * Renoux, André * Reuchsel, Amédée * Reuchsel, Léon * Reuchsel, Maurice * Rouher, Marcel * Rozan, Blanche * Saint-Réquier, Léon de * Schmitt, Alphonse * Schmitt, Florent * Selva, Blanche * Sérieyx, Auguste * Vadon, Jean * Vallombrosa, Amédée de * Vidal, Paul * Vierne, Louis * Vierne, René * Vivet, Armand * Walter, Désiré

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maitres Contemporains De L'orgue Compositions for organ French anthologies of pipe organ music