This is a new printing of the original on sturdy paper. 52 pages in 9 pieces. All markings are original. We provide a photo and capsule biography. Highest quality guaranteed. Graphics below are reduced in size and quality for faster loading. Size of music is 12.5" x 9.5". $17.00.

Walter Russell Johnston (1841-1900), was for more than 40 years the organist at St Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City. Through self study and with nearly no conventional music training, he became a prolific recitalist and composer. He was a prodigy and played in Boston’s Tremont Temple at age 12 but began at St Mary’s Episcopal in Brooklyn at age 8. These pieces are melodic, evocative, and within the technique of nearly all organists. Opus 32 started as six miniatures but ultimately grew to nine. In Number 1, “Largo,” there are two pedal notes, a B and Bb below bottom C, which may have been intended for an older G-compass organ at another church in the area; most of us will simply play the notes an octave higher. Easy to Moderately easy.