Director of the International Mugham Center, People's Artist of Azerbaijan, professor Murad Huseynov, rector of the Azerbaijan National Conservatory, People's Artist of Azerbaijan, professor Siyavush Kerimi, Vice-rector of the Azerbaijan National Conservatory on Scientific Work, doctor of philosophy in art history, professor Lala Huseynova, head of the Research Laboratory on the improvement of the national musical instruments of Azerbaijan National Conservatory, research instrumentalist Mammadali Mammadov, Austrian musicologist,
organologist, composer, professor Thomas Shallabek, People's Artist, professor Fakhraddin Dadashov, teacher at Baku State University Latif Gurbanov and others will take part in the meeting.
Between the end of 2014 and the first months of 2015, the Royal Library acquired some music autographs of the Belgian composers Leon Frings, Guillaume Lekeu, and Gaston Knosp and, thanks to some donors, also extended its collections with hundreds of printed and manuscript scores, with one hundred letters written by the Belgian musicologist Paul Collaer during the First World War, and with the music archives of the Belgian
organologist Jean-Pierre Felix (who died in 2014).
One of the latest publications dealing with this subject is a book by the
organologist Petr Koukal, an employee of the workplace of the National Heritage Institute in Tele, with the rather canny title The Well-Untempered Organ, paraphrasing the title of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
Jeremy Montagu,
organologist and acquaintance of Brain, recalls that the early performances of the piece featured the 13th harmonic, but this was later changed:
And I am most interested, as an
organologist (one who studies musical instruments), in low brass instruments of the early nineteenth century, an area where I am quite active professionally.
He was later able to bring the pragmatic approach of a scientist and engineer to his work as a harpsichord builder, repairer, restorer, performer and
organologist. I was privileged to meet him on a number of occasions when in the sixties he lived with his wife and family at Godstone, Surrey.
The book is thus highly recommended for the technical specialist, restorer, and
organologist.
Milan Guitar, musician, programmer, electronic gadget designer,
organologist, pedagogue and writer, has been creating his own music for over three decades.
Cristina Bordas is an
organologist and a lecturer in musicology at the Complutense University, Madrid.
Fortunately, copies of six of these were made before the war, by an anonymous transcriber who may have been Robert Eitner and/or by a German
organologist, Gustav Fock.
Given that no other source known today calls the instrument anything but ala (or ele and suchlike), we are justified in agreeing with the
organologist Pavel Kurfurst that in the Olomouc source the adjective "boemica" is meant simply to indicate or stress the provenance of the instrument, and not as its real title.
In the loving vocabulary of a true
organologist, Waring begs for the listener's tolerance with what he terms the "kinetic endearments" of the unrestored organs: clunky pedals, clattery keys, clamorous stop actions, creaky organ benches, squeaky crank handles, and the like (p.