The Lancaster Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will host nationally renowned, award-winning organist Mark Laubach for a recital presenting the music of Cesar Franck. The event will take place on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, 501 E. Orange St., Lancaster. Admission is free.

Franck, a French organist, composer, and pedagogue, was one of the most influential organ composers of all time, paving the way for other French composers. This December will mark the 200th anniversary of Franck's birth.

At the concert, Laubach will perform some of Franck's most difficult organ works on St. Anthony Church's organ, which has a full-bodied sound that mimics that experienced by Franck. Laubach serves as organist and choirmaster at St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre as well as professor of organ at Marywood College in suburban Scranton.