to the Organ Library of the Boston Chapter, American Guild of Organists, located at the School of Theology on the campus of Boston University. The Organ Library is a repository of music written or transcribed for the pipe organ, as well as books pertaining to the history of organ music and organ performance. It includes the archives and papers of notable concert organists.

Robert G. Owen

Robert G. OwenThis collection provides comprehensive documentation the professional career of Robert Owen (1918-2005), including his role as consultant for the Flentrop organ intended for (but never installed in) Carnegie Hall. A short autobiographical sketch recounts details of Mr. Owen’s period of study in Paris.This collection provides comprehensive documentation for Robert Owens’s early life, professional career, and the consulting work he did for the Carnegie Hall organ project. “Reminiscences” (26 pp.) that Owen prepared in 1988 provide an autobiographical account, especially of his year in Paris. There is a limited amount of correspondence.

The papers have been arranged in eight series:

  1. Early life and overview; biography
  2. Musical career
  3. Christ Church, Bronxville
  4. American Guild of Organists
  5. Correspondence
  6. Colleagues, composers and students
  7. Organ consulting
  8. Flentrop Organ for Carnegie Hall project.