During the past 15 years, French literature between Louis IV and Napoleon III has been re-evaluated, resulting in important new publications and editions of Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Miroir, Sejan, Lasceux, Francois-Gervais Couperin, Boely, Niedermeyer, Schmidt, Benoist, Chauvet, and other signficant composers. The organbuilding of the period, represented by such giants as Dom Bedos, Francois-Henri Clicquot, Hamel, the Dallery family, the Callinet family, Daublaine and Callinet, and the young Aristide Cavaille-Coll, merits further study inasmuch as this post-classical style resulted in new combinations, forming the basis of later symphonic registration.

Jesse Eschbach is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he was a student of Robert Glasgow. He completed his education during a five-year residency in Paris as a student of Marie-Claire Alain and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. Since 1986, Eschbach has served on the faculty at the University of North Texas as the full-time Professor of Organ, and is Chairman of the Division of Keyboard Studies. Eschbach has several CDs to his credit. Released in 2003 was his 800+ page book, detailing the original stoplists of the majority of organs constructed by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. He currently studies with Sheila Paige, of the Piano and Organ Wellness Clinic.