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Publications

The Organ Preludes of
Johann Sebastian Bach

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980
paperback edition, 1984
“Every organist (from the new student to the most senior player who has seen fashions come and go)
would benefit from familiarity with Mr. Stauffer’s ideas.”
–Peter Williams, Organ Yearbook

J.S. Bach as Organist:
His Instruments, Music,
and Performance Practices
editor (with Ernest May)

“No one interested in Bach’s organ music can afford to do without it.”
–Russell Stinson, Current Musicology

The Forkel-Hoffmeister & Kühnel
Correspondence: A Document of
the Early 19th-Century Bach Revival
editor

“The volume is well designed, with the German text and its English translation on facing pages.”
–Vivien Lo, Notes

Organ Technique: Modern and Early
(with George Ritchie)

“One of the most comprehensive organ methods available today.”
–Robert Clark, The American Organist

Bach Perspectives 2:
J.S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and
Eighteenth-Century Music Trade
editor

“There are plenty of nuggets to be mined by those able to dip into these pages.”
–Peter Ward Jones, Music & Letters

J.S. Bach: The Mass in B Minor

“Stauffer’s greatest contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Bach’s Mass lies in his extensive survey of the Dresden Mass repertory.”
–John Butt, Early Music

The World of Baroque Music:
New Perspectives

“Engagingly written by master scholars, the book is a ‘must read’ for anyone studying, teaching, or performing this repertoire.”
–L. Michael Griffel, Chair,
Music History Department,
The Juilliard School

About Bach
joint editor
(with Gregory G. Butler
and Mary Dalton Greer)

“The editors have excellent track records in the field and have attracted a broad range of approaches.”
–John Butt, Music & Letters

Writings on Bach (Bach Bibliography Homepage)

Amazon’s George B. Stauffer page