Wayne Leupold Editions

Wayne Leupold holds a B.M. and a B.A. “with distinction” from Valparaiso Uni-versity, Valparaiso, Indiana, and a M.M. in organ performance from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He pursued additional organ study at the East-man 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-seven years he edited a bi-monthly journal of organ music entitled The Organist’s Companion. In total, Wayne Leupold has edited over 200 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 nine-teenth- and twentieth-century organ and choral music. His most recent article, “The Performance Practices Relative to the Organ in the Romantic Era” appears in the new 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.”

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