Harald Vogel is a German organist and organologist born on June 21, 1941, in Ottersberg. He studied at the Hamburg University of Music and became a leading expert on Renaissance and Baroque keyboard music, specializing in historical performance practices. In 1972, he founded the North German Organ Academy to train organists on historical instruments. Vogel was appointed professor of organ at the University of the Arts Bremen in 1994 and has also taught at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton. His extensive discography includes a seven-volume complete recording of the organ works of Dieterich Buxtehude and the 1999 album The Young Bach. As a scholar, he edited critical editions of the complete organ works of Nicolaus Bruhns and Vincent Lübeck, and co-authored the 2009 book Arp Schnitger und sein Werk. Vogel has received numerous honors for his contributions to music, including the 2012 Echo Klassik for Instrumentalist of the Year, the 2018 Buxtehude-Preis, and the Federal Cross of Merit in 2024.
