This is a new printing of the original edition on sturdy acid-free paper. This offertoire is the third in the “Stearns’ Collection” and illustrates the timely attempt to bring substantial organ music with an obbligatory pedal part to American organists. Thayer was commissioned to write this specifically for F A Stearns. 8 pages. We provide a capsule biography and photo. Highest quality guaranteed. Size of music is 10.5" x 13.5". $8.00.

Eugene Thayer (1838-1889), a contemporary of Dudley Buck and John Knowles Paine, was one of the early American organ virtuosi who composed many works for the organ. This composition serves as a showcase for the Vox Humana which was an especially expressive stop as found on the Boston Music Hall Walcker organ. It would be a pleasant concert piece as well as an offertory in services. The great engraving on the cover, rotatated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, is of the III/42 Jardine (1873) in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York. Easy. (Also in this series:  Offertoire in D, Morgan ,  Prelude in D, Morgan )