Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahms, contextualized against other church and concert organists' repertoire of the time.

• Preface
• Part I:
• 1: The Organ in the Life of Brahms
• 2: Bach, Counterpoint, and Chorales
• 3: Brahms as Revisor
• Part II:
• 4: The Early Works
• 5: The Eleven Chorale Preludes
• 6: Interpretation
• Appendix A: Editions
• Appendix B: The Organs in Brahms's World
• Appendix C: Organ Transcriptions of Brahms Work
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index