JULIAN RHODES' DREAM ORGANS

A collection of organ proposals which were still-born or greatly modified.

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• The genesis of the Schnetzler organ at Fulneck Moravian Chapel, 1747-48


• Cavaillé-Coll proposal for the Royal Church of St. Denis, France 1833


• Cavaillé-Coll proposal for St. Eustache, Paris 1845


• Proposals by S.S. Wesley 1846, Cavaillé-Coll 1847 and William Hill 1851 for St. George's Hall, Liverpool


• Proposals by Cavaillé-Coll 1860 and Merklin & Schütze 1862 for Notre-Dame, Paris


• Proposals by Edmund Schulze and A.W. Gottschalg for Cologne Cathedral
  
• Proposals by Cavaillé-Coll and Mutin for St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City


• Forster & Andrews proposal for Holy Trinity Church, Hull 1876


• Willis and Lewis proposals for Westminster Abbey 1879


• Sydney Town Hall, Australia: tender stoplist by Alexander Rea 1885


• Sydney Town Hall, Australia: proposal stoplist by Hilborne Roosevelt c.1885


• Robert Hope-Jones proposal for St. Alban, Holborn, London 1893


• Liverpool Cathedral: drafts & proposals 1912-1950


• Westminster Cathedral: Harrison & Harrison proposal 1920


• Westminster Cathedral: Willis contract stoplist 1920


• Stentor Division proposals for the Wanamaker organ 1926-7


• Atlantic City Convention Hall: tender stoplist 1929


• Buckfast Abbey: Ralph Downes / G. Donald Harrison proposal 1939


• Royal Festival Hall, London: Ralph Downes proposal c.1948


• Henry Willis III's proposal for Bolsover Church, Derbyshire 1960


• Grant, Degens & Bradbeer proposal for the Barbican Centre Concert Hall, London 1969


• C.B. Fisk's proposal for Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco 1976


• 1980s Frobenius proposals for St. James Piccadilly and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London


• La Grande Arche, La Défense, Paris: Guillou/Curley proposal 1985


• St. Peter, Westchester Square, Bronx, New York: Gluck proposal 1988

see also:


• Renautus Harris's 6-manual proposal for St. Paul's Cathedral, London, c.1712,

       with a suggested stoplist