Laurence Libin was born in 1944 and educated in Chicago and London. He became interested in organ building while in high school, and between 1973 and 1999 served as the Director of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Between 2007 and 2009, he served as President of the Organ Historical Society. Currently, he is Honorary Curator of Steinway & Sons, and emeritus research curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he received the Anthony Baines Memorial Prize from the Galpin Society (U.K.) in 2006 for services to organology. Mr. Libin has taught in the graduate schools of Columbia and New York University, and publishes and lectures widely, recently at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Piano Technicians Guild and the International Society of Organbuilders in Amsterdam. He is a consultant to cultural institutions worldwide and a leading advocate for historical preservation.
From the description of Four notebooks of pipe organ stoplists, [196-?]-1969. (Organ Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 660834582
