NEW: Great exceptional organ photo book, published by Dr. J. Butz-Verlag

By Martin Doering, the author and operator of this OrganSite (all photos and texts, layout, typesetting and prepress)


Spectacular photos never seen before!
  • 460 fascinating highest quality color photos
  • 49 important organs from 16 European countries and the US
  • Exceptional and breathtaking perspectives
  • Photos of (some previously undisclosed) details and curiosities
  • Short texts focusing on the essentials about the organs and the buildings in which they are located
  • All texts completely bilingual in English and German
  • Complete stoplists at the latest status including current rebuilts and extensions
  • 208 pages, 30 x 24 cm, luxurious finish, hardcover with ribbon bookmark
Perhaps the most beautiful tribute to the “queen of instruments”
between two book covers

 Price: 44 €


➤ Printing, binding and entire production “Made in Germany”
➤ Completely without AI / ChatGPT etc., all done by hand
➤ Without use of drones, everything photographed myself with SLR cameras



Contents Insights into the book (click to enlarge)
Cologne St. Peter and Mary Cathedral
Seville Cathedral
Lucerne Court Church of St. Leodegar
Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle
Speyer Imperial and St. Mary‘s Cathedral
Strasbourg Notre-Dame Cathedral (Minster)
York Minster (St. Peter‘s Cathedral)
Rotterdam Sint Laurenskerk (Grote Kerk)
Waldsassen Collegiate Basilica
Milan Duomo di Santa Maria Nascente
Reykjavík Hallgrímskirkja
St. Florian Abbey Church (‘Bruckner Organ‘)
Schwerin Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John
Palma de Mallorca St. Mary‘s Cathedral (‘La Seu‘)
Alkmaar Sint Laurenskerk (Grote Kerk)
Paris Saint-Eustache
Dresden Frauenkirche
Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall
Stockholm Hedvig Eleonora Church
Vilnius Arkikatedra (Cathedral)
Berlin St. Hedwig‘s Cathedral
St. Urban Monastery Church
Riga St. Mary‘s Cathedral
Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral
Amsterdam Nieuwe Kerk (New Church)
Passau St. Stephen‘s Cathedral
Melk St. Peter and Paul Abbey Church
Trondheim Nidaros Cathedral
Weingarten Basilica of St. Martin & St. Oswald
West Point Military Academy Cadet Chapel
Naples Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
Hildesheim St. Mary‘s Cathedral
Wroclaw St. Elisabeth‘s Basilica
Kampen Sint Nicolas Bovenkerk
Görlitz St. Peter and Paul (‘Sun Organ’)
Budapest St. Stephen‘s Basilica
Hamburg St. Michael‘s Church (‘Michel’)
Ebersmunster Saint-Maurice Abbey
Leipzig St. Nicholas Church
Garden Grove Christ (formerly Crystal) Cathedral
Rostock St. Mary‘s Church
Chester Cathedral
Munich Cathedral of Our Lady
Maassluis Groote Kerk
Landsberg Parish Church of the Assumption
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Auditorio de Tenerife
Kempten St. Lawrence Basilica
Évora Cathedral
Münster St. Lamberti






The organ book in the press / interviews / reviews


 Article in the journal "organ" 1/2026

You can read this article (in German) here or by clicking on the picture on the right:
  Article "Acrobatics for the Queen – How a new photo book on the organ came to be"
Published in "organ – Journal für die Orgel" 1/2026, © Schott Music, Mainz 2026

Presentation of the book on MDR „Organ Magazine”

You can listen to the program (1/2 h, in German) here:
  Broadcast on February 1, 2026, on MDR Klassik — hosted by Claus Fischer

Presentation of the book on „our Radio” of the Diocese of Passau

You can listen to the broadcast (1/2 h, in German) here:
  Broadcast of „our Radio” of the Diocese of Passau - hosted by Thomas König




The author at work ...                                       ... and the results













All photos in the book were taken with the highest quality camera equipment: most with a Canon EOS R5 and EOS 5D Mark IV, a few (older ones) with a Canon EOS 7D, and very few with an EOS 20D.