Schneider / Schiager - The Koenig Organ - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Organist Halgeir Schiager's first on the LAWO Classics tag is a tribute to German composer and organist Johann Gottlob Schneider (1789-1864). Today Schneider is virtually forgotten, but in his time he was compared to Paganini and given the sobriquet Inchking of organists.Inch He represents organ literature between Bach and Mendelssohn, traditionally regarded as a period of decline.