Editing Pipe organ (section)

===Modern and contemporary===
Other composers who have used the organ prominently in orchestral music include [[Gustav Holst]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Ottorino Respighi]], [[Gustav Mahler]], [[Anton Bruckner]], and [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]].<ref>Barone, Michael (2004). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20050326113612/http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/articles/0503_what_to_play.shtml Pipe organs are popping up in concert halls nationwide. Now—what to play on them?]". ''Symphony magazine'', Nov–Dec 2004. Retrieved on 7 May 2007.</ref> Because these concert hall instruments could approximate the sounds of symphony orchestras, [[transcription (music)|transcriptions]] of orchestral works found a place in the organ repertoire.<ref>Lozenz, James Edward (2006). "Organ Transcriptions and the Late Romantic Period". In ''[http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04052006-155413/unrestricted/LORENZTREATISE.pdf An Organ Transcription of the Messe in C, op. 169 by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927154753/http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04052006-155413/unrestricted/LORENZTREATISE.pdf |date=27 September 2007 }}'' (PDF). Florida State University College of Music. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.</ref> As [[silent film]]s became popular, [[theatre organ]]s were installed in [[movie theater|theatres]] to provide accompaniment for the films.<ref name="romantic" />

In the 20th-century symphonic repertoire, both sacred and secular,<ref>Glück, Sebastian Matthäus (2003). "[http://www.albany.edu/piporg-l/FS/sg.html Literature-based reed assignment in organ design] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312010745/http://www.albany.edu/piporg-l/FS/sg.html |date=12 March 2007 }}". PIPORG-L. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.</ref> continued to progress through the music of [[Marcel Dupré]], [[Maurice Duruflé]], and [[Herbert Howells]].<ref name="romantic" /> Other composers, such as [[Olivier Messiaen]], [[György Ligeti]], [[Jehan Alain]], [[Jean Langlais]], [[Gerd Zacher]], and [[Petr Eben]], wrote post-tonal organ music.<ref name="romantic" /> Messiaen's music in particular redefined many of the traditional notions of organ registration and technique.<ref>Galuska, Andrew R. (2001). "[http://www.uh.edu/~tkoozin/projects/galuska/andrewgaluska.html Messiaen's organ registration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903113448/http://www.uh.edu/~tkoozin/projects/galuska/andrewgaluska.html |date=3 September 2007 }}". Moore's School of Music: University of Houston. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.</ref>

[[Albert Schweitzer]] was an organist who studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the [[Organ reform movement]].

Film composer [[Hans Zimmer]] prominently used the pipe organ in his score for the movie ''[[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]]''. The final recording took place in London's Temple Church on a 1926 four-manual Harrison and Harrison organ.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Church organ playing Hans Zimmer's epic 'Interstellar' theme makes our world feel tiny |url=https://www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer/church-organ-interstellar-theme-makes-world-feel-tiny/ |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Classic FM |language=en |archive-date=8 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608100747/https://www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer/church-organ-interstellar-theme-makes-world-feel-tiny/ |url-status=live }}</ref>