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unusual facts about organ builder



Bragernes Church

The church organ has 38 votes and was built in romantic style of the Danish organ builder Carsten Lund.

Church of St Editha, Tamworth

Alexander Buckingham added a chair/choir division in 1809 and a pedal division was added by William Hill in 1841.

Kilgen

George Kilgen was born in Merchingen, Germany in 1821 and apprenticed to the organ builder Louis Voit in Durlach.

Pacific Union College Church

The stage of the PUC Church is dominated by Pacific Union College's pipe organ made by organ builder Rieger Orgelbau in the town of Schwarzach in Austria.


see also

Abbrederis

Matthäus Abbrederis (1652 – c. 1725), Austrian organist and organ builder

Alexandre Thierry

Alexandre Thierry (c. 1646 - 1699) was a French organ builder, son of the organ builder Pierre Thierry, and the most distinguished of the second generation of this organ-building dynasty.

Church of Mariahilf

The organ was built in 1763 by the Austrian organ builder Johann Hencke (3 Dec 1697 Geseke- 24 Sept 1766 Vienna).

Cor Edskes

He had a working relationship with the German organ builder Jürgen Ahrend that began in the 1950s, included the restoration of many organs in Germany and Holland, and culminated in the restoration of Arp Schnitger's largest surviving organ at St. Jacobi, Hamburg.

David Boe

Boe commissioned organ-builder John Brombaugh's first major instrument, Opus 4 in Lorain, Ohio, and has always been keenly interested in historical performance and early temperaments.

Dresden Cathedral

The cathedral features a carefully restored organ, the last work of the renowned organ builder Gottfried Silbermann.

Essen Minster

This organ was built by the renowned organ workshop, Rieger of Schwarzach, which was founded by the organ builder Franz Rieger.

Friedrich Ladegast

He worked first for his brother Christlieb, an organ builder at Geringswalde, and built his first two organs at the age of twenty.

Grinda Brothers

Honoré Grinda (30 September 1754 in Nice – 15 June 1843 in Prats-de-Mollo) first learned carpentry with his grandfather, then became an apprentice under Jean-Esprit Isnard, a Dominican from Tarascon near Avignon, himself a noted organ-builder.

Gustavus Hesselius

He also worked as an organ builder, having built an organ for the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1746.

Hermann Julius Grüneberg

He was the second of six children of the master organ builder August Wilhelm Grüneberg and his wife Caroline Henriette née Breslich from Cammin.

J. I. Wedgwood

Wedgwood now enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the Sorbonne, combining his studies with experiments at the works of a celebrated organ builder and activities at Russian Orthodox and Old Catholic churches.

Jean Titelouze

In 1600 Titelouze invited the famous Franco-Flemish organ builder Crespin Carlier to Rouen to work on the cathedral organ.

Kongsberg Gloger organ

The organ builder Jürgen Ahrend had recreated in the restored Gloger pipes the authentic sounds of old.

Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély

He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs.

Organ building

The organ builder usually receives a commission to design an organ with a particular disposition of stops, manuals, and actions, creates a design to best respond to spatial, technical and acoustic considerations, and then constructs the instrument.

Pedal clavichord

Various modern copies have been made of surviving pedal clavichords, such as the one in the Instrumenten-Museum in the University of Leipzig built in the 1760s by the organ-builder Johann David Gerstenberg from Geringswalde in Saxony.

Poitiers Cathedral

François-Henri Clicquot, at that time the leading organ-builder in France, was appointed to undertake the work, but died in Pentecost 1790 before completing the work.

Thomas Tomkins

In 1612 Tomkins oversaw the construction in Worcester cathedral of a magnificent new organ by Thomas Dallam, the foremost organ-builder of the day.