Peter Racine Fricker was prominent in British - and European - musical culture in his own lifetime, but now mention of his name is met with a vague memory of one or two pieces, or indifferent ignorance.

An important part of Fricker's oeuvre is his writing for the organ, which was premiered by the luminaries of several generations of organists, and totals some eighteen compositions over a thirty-eight-year period. Richard Moore provides a catalogue of these organ works, in this article from the RCO Journal of 2015.

He also discusses why Fricker, once the darling of the British Establishment, fell out of favour in the 1970s, in spite of writing prolifically until his death in 1990.

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