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E. Power Biggs, Concert Organist: E. Power Biggs, Concert Organist

E. Power Biggs, Concert Organist

E. Power Biggs, Concert Organist

ILLUSTRATIONS

Recording Haydn at Eisenstadt, 1963

Alice Maud Tredgett Biggs with “Jimmy,” ca. 1906

Biggs at 14, 1920

A passport photo of Biggs, ca. 1930

Biggs on the beach, Newport, ca. 1931

Leo Sowerby, Colette Lionne, and Biggs, ca. 1940

Biggs in Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 1936

The tenth anniversary of Biggs’s naturalization, 1947

Biggs at his Cambridge home, 1940s

With Emmanuel Winternitz, New York, 1942

With Richard Burgin, Cambridge, 1940s

Albert Schweitzer at the Germanic Museum, 1949

Charles Munch, Biggs, and G. Donald Harrison, 1950

Biggs and Arthur Fiedler, 1950

Biggs in Methuen Memorial Hall, 1950s

The Cambridge Portative, 1954

Biggs with a model of a hydraulis on TV, 1956

Biggs trying his hand at glass blowing, 1956

Biggs at Westminster Abbey, 1954

Biggs, Peggy, and Pall Isolffson, Iceland, 1955

On the Mozart trail, 1955

The Schnitger organ at Zwolle, 1957

Great Packington, 1957

Celebrating the opening of the new Germanic Museum organ, 1958

Biggs at the Flentrop organ, 1960s

Recording the Soler Concertos with Daniel Pinkham, 1960

At Philharmonic Hall, New York, 1961

Biggs and Eugene Ormandy, 1962

The pedal harpsichord, ca. 1966

At St. George’s Church, New York, ca. 1967

The Gabler organ, Weingarten, 1955

At St. George’s Church, New York, 1972

Autographing records in the Harvard Coop, 1975

Biggs’s last recording session, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 1975

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