The Curt Sachs Award 1996

Peter Frederic Williams

The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society designated Peter Frederic Williams the recipient of the Curt Sachs Award for the year 1996 in recognition of his distinguished achievements as scholar, musician, teacher, editor of the Organ Yearbook and Director of the Russell Collection at the University of Edinburgh, and in acknowledgment of his fundamental contributions to organology and to the history and understanding of keyboard instruments and keyboard music in particular.