English Organ Music: the early Georgians to about 1780

See also my playlists for the Later Georgians, for the Organists of Westminster Abbey (High Baroque Period), for the voluntaries of William Goodwin and Henry Heron, and for the Wesley brothers. -- English organs of the 18th c. usually had two or three manuals but no pedals. Even the biggest instruments were relatively small compared to the larger instruments of Germany, the Netherlands, or France (though they were more substantial than, for example, Italian organs of the period). In the 19th c. most older English organs were destroyed and replaced because it was felt that "real" organs should be big and loud and have pedals so you could play for example the works of J.S. Bach. On Victorian and later organs, the genteel, elegant, serene music of the pre-Victorian period is difficult or impossible to play. Anyway, in England this literature was (and to some extent still is) considered inferior in the same way as the old English organs. Outside England it was never well known in the first place. There is, then, much to rediscover here.