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David Craighead

David Craighead was a noted American organist. Craighead was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. He studied with Alexander McCurdy at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in 1946. While at Curtis he met his future wife Marian Reiff, also a pupil of McCurdy. They married in 1948. From 1955 until his retirement in the summer of 1992 he was both Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Division of the Keyboard Department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Craighead was also organist of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester, a position he held for 48 years. In June 1968, Craighead received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. He recorded works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pierre du Mage, César Franck, Felix Mendelssohn, Olivier Messiaen, Samuel Adler, Paul Cooper, Lou Harrison, William Albright, Vincent Persichetti, Max Reger, Leo Sowerby, Dudley Buck, and Louis Vierne. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Craighead_(organist)) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

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David Craighead, Fairfield Orchestra & John Welsh

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Organ Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 59: IV. Adagio

David Craighead

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5 Pieces for Organ 4 Hands: No. 5, Intermezzo

Marian Craighead & David Craighead

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Organ Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 60: III. Introduction and Fugue

David Craighead

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Organ Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 59: V. Finale

David Craighead

Albums

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Hanson, H.: Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings / Nymph and Satyr / Concerto Da Camera / 2 Yuletide Pieces / 4 Pieces for Chorus 2000

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Sowerby: Works for Organ and Orchestra 1999

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An American Romantic 1994

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Reger, M.: Organ Sonata No. 2 / Vierne, L.: Organ Symphony No. 6 1990