Composer, performer, editor, musicologist and publisher, Félix-Alexandre Guilmant is considered, along with Charles-Marie Widor, one of the founders of the nineteenth-century French Romantic school of organ-playing. His organ music can be divided into concert works and those written for church service. Foremost among Guilmant’s concert output are the magnificent elegy, Lamentation in D minor, a lavish Scherzo symphonique, and the March on a Theme by Handel (the chorus Lift up your heads from Messiah). Guilmant’s liturgical repertoire is represented by the exquisite Noël languedocien, and a set of variations based on a well-known Easter hymn, the Offertoire ‘O filii’.