Best-selling US organist dies, 81
RIPThe ever-popular Michael Murray died last week at the age of 81.
A student of Marcel Dupré, whose biography he would write, Murray was organist of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 31 years. He made numerous best-selling recordings on the Telarc label, notably of Bach, Franck and Saint-Saëns.
He was also the biographer of the publisher and philosopher Jacques Barzun. Murray retired just over ten years ago.
Before he recorded for Telarc, he was an announcer on Cleveland’s classical music station, WCLV.
Sorry to hear this, RIP. Murray’s cd set of the complete Franck organ works terrific. It’s sad to see so many of the artists who we all started with in the CD era passing away. So many from the Telarc stable are gone now.
I wholeheartedly agree about the Franck album. Magnificent. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lop4Pq_7F1U
Jacques Barzun, who wrote the magnificent “Berlioz and the Romantic Century,” a “publisher and philosopher?” Not really one or the other.
Both, actually; one can add “cultural historian” to the list.
In what way was Barzun a publisher?