Given the sluggish rate of publication of original compositions for organ in the years around the foundation of the College of Organists, it was an enlightened move for the College to promote, as one of their first acts, a competition for an original organ piece.  Graham Barber looks at the state of organ composition in England around this event, with musical examples.  This article originally appeared in the RCO Journal in 2014.

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