The first organ Montserrat Torrent ever played, at age 18, was in a chapel in Santa Coloma de Farners in the Spanish city of Girona, where her family spent their summers. “It was a simple organ, without pedal stops, but it was good,” she says. “I tried to play absurd things, like Chopin’s nocturnes, but there was no way to make them sound right.”

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