The document provides information about the Wayne Leupold Archives: 1) The Archives is a division of the Leupold Foundation which aims to preserve, reproduce, and disseminate pipe organ culture through its collection of over 25,000 pieces of organ music, 3,000 books, and other holdings related to the pipe organ. 2) The collection includes music, books, and other materials from various donors and organists, with the largest portions coming from Wayne Leupold's personal library and the former Guilmant Organ School. 3) The Archives is located in North Carolina and offers educational programs, internships, and access to researchers by appointment to utilize its collection and resources.

1. WAYNE LEUPOLD EDITIONS
WWW.WAYNELEUPOLD.COM

2. TheLeupoldarchives
A Division of The Leupold Foundation

3. Wayne Leupold holds a B.M. and a B.A. “with distinction” from Valparaiso
University, Valparaiso, Indiana, and a M.M. in organ performance from
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He pursued additional organ
study at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. Mr.
Leupold has given workshops for numerous Chapters of the American
Guild of Organists and has lectured and performed at many regional and
national conventions of the A.G.O. and the Organ Historical Society.
Wayne Leupold first began as a freelance editor of Romantic organ and
choral music with McAfee Music, Belwin-Mills, and later Warner Bros.
Publications. For thirty-two years he has edited a bi-monthly journal of
organ music entitled The Organist’s Companion. In total, Wayne Leupold
has edited over 300 volumes of organ music. In 1989 he formed the music
publishing company, Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc., with the purpose of
publishing organ teaching materials and organ music from all centuries
and national schools. He has published numerous articles in The American
Organist and other organ journals. A recent article, “The Performance
Practices Relative to the Organ in the Romantic Era,” appears in the two-
volume Groves Handbook of Performance Practices.
In October 1996 Valparaiso University awarded Wayne Leupold its
Distinguished Alumnus Award. This is the highest honor given by the
Valparaiso University Alumni Association “. . . in recognition of significant
personal and professional accomplishments.”
Wayne Leupold, M.M.
President, Wayne Leupold Editions
Chairman, The Leupold Foundation

4. The Leupold Archives Mission
The Leupold Archives, a repository of past and present organ music and related items for use in
the future, is a division of The Leupold Foundation whose mission includes the preservation,
reproduction, and dissemination of the culture of the pipe organ from all centuries and national
schools. The Foundation concept and its Archives were developed over a five-year period, from
2003 to 2007, by Wayne Leupold. It is a charitable foundation under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue code and has a nine-member board of directors, three rotating on and off each
year.

5. French Organ
Manuscripts
From top: Deshayes (5); Salomé (1);
Gigout (1).

6. American and
English Organ
Manuscripts
From top: Wolstenholme; Faulkes;
Bird; Luard-Selby.

7. Location
The Archives houses a research library, a repository of organ music and other related materials,
open to researchers by appointment. The Foundation and Archives, along with Wayne Leupold
Editions, occupy a 5,500 square-foot building at 8510 Triad Drive, Colfax (a suburb of
Greensboro), North Carolina. The collection is housed in three rooms, totaling approximately
1,500 square feet, which have been remodeled and upgraded to control moisture and
temperature. The organ music is stored in 1,000 acid-free boxes on approximately 300 linear
feet of metal stacks of seven shelves.

8. Eighteenth-
Century English
Organ Music
(clockwise, from top to left): Haydn,
Sinfonia, transcription; Handel,
Celebrated Overtures, transcriptions
[late 1700’s]; Geminiani, Six
Celebrated Concertos, transcriptions
[1735]; Haydn, Sinfonie, transcription.

9. Holdings
The official inception of the Leupold Foundation and Archives was January 2008, occasioned by a
substantial bequest of organ music and books from the estate of Mary Ann Dodd (1931–2007), former
university organist of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Current holdings of the Archives also
include the complete personal libraries of Wayne Leupold; Arthur Poister (1898–1980), formerly of
Syracuse University; George Oplinger, formerly of First Baptist Church, Syracuse, New York; Robert
Shamleffer; Ralph Kneeream (b. 1933); and all the organ music from the library of the former Guilmant
Organ School. The Guilmant Organ School was housed for the first half of the twentieth century at the
First Presbyterian Church in New York City. The archives contains significant portions of the personal
libraries of William C. Carl (1865–1936), Gerrit Smith (1859–1912), and Clarence Eddy (1851–1937), all
very significant American organ recitalists of the twentieth century. Calvert Johnson (b. 1949), Quentin
Faulkner (b. 1943), and William Osborne (b. 1937) have made significant gifts from their personal libraries.
In addition to being a permanent repository of organ music, it accepts and is a resource center for “all
things organ.”

10. The permanent collection includes:
 More than 25,000 pieces of printed organ music (original editions and
photocopies of original works, transcriptions, anthologies, facsimiles,
and music for organ and other instruments), covering all historical
periods to the present.
 Many first-edition works by lesser-known composers of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
 More than 3,000 books on: organ music; composers of organ music;
organ performance practices; historic organs; organ construction; and
general music.
 More than 400 hymnals from the last four centuries.
 The largest collection of organ and organ improvisation methods in the
U.S. (more than 350).
 More than 250 autographs of organists, composers who wrote music
for the organ, and authors of general music publications; prints of
organs; significant historical correspondence; and organ music
manuscripts.
 More than 500 microfilms.
 Organ and church music periodicals.
 Numerous organ recordings (78’s, 45’s, LP’s and CD’s).
 The company archives of Wayne Leupold Editions.
 The history of The Leupold Foundation.
The Leupold Archives
The Archives is supervised by a
professional librarian. Currently this
person is overseeing the cataloging of the
entire collection. Two types of catalogs
are being created: (1) an internal
database inventory catalog, and (2)
public records for OCLC’s WorldCat (URL)
according to international standards
(www.worldcatlibraries.org). The librarian
is assisted in this process by a volunteer
corps drawn from the greater
Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High
Point, North Carolina areas.

11. Educational Outreach
A strong educational aspect to the work of the foundation is a joint volunteer internship program between
the Leupold Archives and Wayne Leupold Editions, which began in the summer of 2013. This hands-on
program is for those, particularly college-age organists, who are interested in the mission of the
Foundation and Wayne Leupold Editions. The unpaid interns participate in all the basic skills used in: (1)
maintaining the Archives; (2) researching, developing, and producing organ publications; and (3)
administering all the activities of both organizations. In other words, the interns do not only observe but
actively participate in assisting various employees and volunteers in their specific activities. Internships
are offered for any length of time with a minimum of one full business week (5 days). The objective of this
program is to generate enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity in young organists and encourage them to
consider exploring (through research) organ music, organ performance issues, and biographical
information on composers, performers, and organ builders of the past and present. Reasonable rooming
accommodations for interns are usually available within six miles of the building and eating options are
within a short walking distance of the accommodations. Interns have the opportunity to visit the four
organs in the three chapels at Duke University and the restored two-manual 1800 Tannenburg organ at
Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

12. Partnering
The Foundation has begun and welcomes more partnering with organ departments of various
colleges/universities and AGO chapters to advance similar interests and missions of a greater appreciation
and understanding of the pipe organ and its music.
Current Partner Institutions:

13. Nineteenth and
Twentieth-
Century Organ
Music Periodicals
(clockwise, from upper right): The
Organ: American Organ Monthly;
Consolaire; The Organist’s Companion;
the Keyboardist’s Year; The Organist’s
Quarterly Journal and Review; The
Organist’s Magazine of Voluntaries;
The Organist’s Journal; Church and
Home Organist’s Companion; The
Organ Loft.

14. Museum
A museum component partially fulfilling the foundation’s mission of preservation and
dissemination of the pipe organ culture through education is also being developed. The building
on Triad Drive has two long hallways (a total of approximately 110 feet) that form an “L,” which
go the length and width of the building. Planning has begun to develop the hallways into a
gallery with display cases containing organ music manuscripts, first editions of organ music, and
old books pertaining to the organ. The walls will contain framed autographs and photographs of
organists, composers who wrote music for the organ, authors who wrote books on the organ or
related topics, manuscripts of organ music, and historic prints of organ cases.

15. Hymns
(clockwise, from top left): Julian, A
Dictionary of Hymnology, 1892; Allon
and Gauntlett, eds., The
Congregational Psalmist, 1864; Mason,
ed., Boston Handel and Haydn Society
Collection of Church Music, 1835;
Monk, ed., Hymns Ancient and
Modern, 1889; Bridge, The Methodist
Hymn-Book with Tunes, 1904;
Comer, The Boston Musical Institutes
Collection of Church Music, 1840.

16. Contributions
The plan of The Foundation, Archives, and its divisions, is to move firmly into the future with a
strong position—professionally, artistically, and financially—to preserve, reproduce, and
disseminate the rich and wonderful history, culture, and music of the pipe organ. In following its
philosophy to focus on “all things organ,” the Foundation and its Archives welcomes: (1)
donations of organ music and books on all aspects of the organ, including literature and
performance practices of organ music; (2) contributions of organ recordings and organ
memorabilia of any and all types (prints of organs, correspondence, autographs of organists and
organ composers; photographs; statues; and post cards); and (3) financial contributions. All such
gifts are tax deductible and will be used to fulfill the long-term mission to the organ world in
making its vast and rich heritage of music accessible to the public.

17. Books about the
Organ
(clockwise, from upper left):
Goodrich, The Organ in France, 1917;
Locher, Die Orgel-Register . . . , 1912;
Servières, La Décoration Artistique,
1928; Guédon, . . . Facteur d’Orgues,
1903; Miller, Révolution récente dans
la facture d’orgue, 1914.

18. Books about
Organists
(clockwise, from upper left): Stiven, In
the Organ Lofts of Paris, 1923;
Stiven/Smith, In the Organ Lofts of
Paris, 2010; Elvey, Life and
Reminiscences of George J. Elvey,
1894; Hodges, Edward Hodges, 1896.

19. Visits
The Foundation, Archives, and Wayne Leupold Editions also welcome pre-arranged visits from
interested individuals, researchers, high school and college organ students, college and
university organ teachers and their organ studios to tour the facilities and collections. On site
Wayne Leupold Editions offers for sale a stock of discounted, slightly-used, or damaged, selected
copies from its catalog. The Archives has discounted, used organ music for sale on site and also
services requests worldwide for photocopies of out-of-print publications from its collection. The
proceeds of such sales go toward the support of the Archives.

20. Organ Methods
(clockwise, from upper right):
Smart, The Organ Student;
Rinck, Practische Orgelschule, 1819;
Lemmens, Ecole d’Orgue, 1862.

21. Contact Information
The Foundation, Archives, and Wayne Leupold Editions also welcome pre-arranged visits from
interested individuals, researchers, high school and college organ students, college and
university organ teachers and their organ studios to tour the facilities and collections. On site
Wayne Leupold Editions offers for sale a stock of discounted, slightly-used, or damaged, selected
copies from its catalog. The Archives has discounted, used organ music for sale on site and also
services requests worldwide for photocopies of out-of-print publications from its collection. The
proceeds of such sales go toward the support of the Archives.

22. Contact
Information
The Archives can be contacted at: The
Leupold Archives, 8510 Triad Drive,
Colfax, North Carolina 27235; 336-996-
8653; archives@wayneleupold.com.

23. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
French Novelist and Playwright
“The Organ is in truth the grandest, the most daring, the most magnificent of all
instruments invented by human genius. It is a whole orchestra in itself. It can
express anything in response to a skilled touch. Surely, it is in some sort a
pedestal on which the soul poises for a flight into space, essaying on her course
to draw picture after picture in an endless series, to paint human life, to cross
the Infinite that separates heaven from earth?”
Honoré de Balzac