Kurt Lueders,a graduate of Yale University, studied the organ in Paris with Maurice Duruflé, Édouard Souberbielle and André Fleury. Secretary of the International Society of Organbuilders prior to receiving a doctorat from the Sorbonne in 2002 with a dissertation on Alexandre Guilmant, his specialty of the 19th-century organ and its literature has led him to publish articles and give numerous concerts, lectures and master classes throughout the world, to which is added a long series of republication of unjustly forgotten organ music as well a good dozen recording projects from the late 1980s onward. His editions include a recent anthology (5 volumes to date) of original Romantic music for solo strings and organ (Butz edition, Bonn). He has also been editor since 1978 of the specialized review La Flûte Harmonique published yearly by the Association Aristide Cavailé-Coll. Having taught at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne for some years as well as teaching organ from 1991 to 2015 at the Conservatory in the Paris suburb Plaisir (Yvelines), Kurt Lueders is presently organist at the Eglise Protestante Unie du Saint-Esprit in Paris and active as a professional translator of musical texts in French and German.