Cornelius H. Edskes

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Cornelius H. Edskes (also Cor Edskes ; * 1925 in Groningen ; † September 7, 2015 in Haren ) was a Dutch organ expert and leading Arp Schnitger researcher.

life and work

Edskes was born as the son of Albert Hendrik Edskes, chief secretary at the court in Groningen, and Gritje (from Marguerite) de Graaf and grew up in Groningen as the oldest of four musical brothers. He received his first organ lessons from Johan van Meurs, the organist at the Groningen Aa-kerk . From 1941 he played on the Schnitger organ from Uithuizen and was organist at the Doopsgezindekerk in Groningen from 1944.

He was shaped by his teachers Friso Molenaar, George Stam and Flor Peeters , but also by Helmut Walcha . In his first years he gave organ concerts at home and abroad and made radio recordings, but later gave up in favor of his organological research and his work as an organ expert. He learned practical organ building at the Doornbos company in Groningen.

From 1957 to 1963 Edskes was a member of the organ commission of the Dutch Reformed Church and during this time he accompanied over 50 organ projects, restorations and new buildings. From 1963 to 1968 he worked as an assistant to Hendrik Leendert Oussoren for the Dutch preservation of monuments and was involved in over 30 restorations of historical instruments. He then became a freelance organ expert.

For the organic journal Het Orgel he was editor from 1954 to 1957 and editor-in-chief from 1957 to 1963.

As with his brother, the organ builder Bernhardt Edskes , the work of Arp Schnitger was the focus of his interest. A collaboration with Gustav Fock began in 1939 when Edskes inventoried the organs of the province of Groningen for his Schnitger biography . Edskes was an expert on over 30 restoration projects, including the Schnitger organs in Stade / St. Cosmae (1972–1975), Cappel (1976/1977), the Martinikerk in Groningen (1976/1984), in Grasberg (1980–1985), Lüdingworth (1981/1982), Steinkirchen (1987/1991) and Hamburg / Sankt Jacobi (1993).

Edskes was regarded as one of the most internationally renowned organ experts in the field of organ restoration and reconstruction. With his detailed documentation he set standards for historically informed organ building in theory and practice. Organ pipes are measured and described on the basis of up to 30 criteria. For the proportions of the rows of pipes and the case proportions, Edskes has further developed the system for recording and displaying the data. As early as the 1950s, he was involved in the restoration of the oldest instruments in the East Frisian organ landscape by Ahrend & Brunzema , the organs in Westerhusen (1955), Uttum (1956/57) and Rysum (1959/60). At his suggestion, for the first time in the history of restoration, the medium-tone tuning was applied to instruments for worship and the original keyboard ranges were realized with a short octave . In Denmark he was the expert for the reconstruction of the organ in Helsingør (1960) and the restoration of the organs in Roskilde Cathedral (1991) and Clausholm Castle (1997), in Norway for the organs of Kongsberg Kirke (1993) and Røros Kirke (1994-1996).

In the Netherlands Edskes was occasionally active in organ building in the 1950s, for example with the voicing of the organs in Nieuwolda (1950) and the Groningen Martinikerk ( Rückpositiv , 1952). In 1951 he designed a new Rückpositiv for Ruinerwold. Together with Simon Graafhuis, he reconstructed three registers of the Schnitger organ in Noordbroek from 1955 to 1958 and in this way restored the original disposition of the Rückpositiv. Other Dutch projects in which Edskes provided advice were the organs in Amsterdam / Nieuwe Kerk (main and choir organ), Groningen / Nieuwe Kerk, Medemblik, Kantens and 't Zandt. A fruitful collaboration was established with the German organ builder Jürgen Ahrend and the Danish organ building workshop Marcussen . Mediated by Edskes, they built various new organs in the Netherlands and restored important historical organ works there. A highlight was the restoration of the Schnitger organ in the Martinikerk in Groningen by Ahrend.

In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg for his services to the organ project The North German Organ Research Project at Göteborg University .

Fonts

  • De nagelaten written by van de orgelmaker Arp Schnitger (1648–1719). Boeijenga, Sneek 1968.
  • The Organs of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam at the Time of Sweelinck . In: Alan Curtis (Ed.): Sweelinck's Keyboard Music. Appendix I . University Press, Leiden; Oxford University Press, London 1969, pp. 163-200.
  • Report on the organ in de Martinikerk te Groningen. Groningen 1971.
  • Repertory op de archivalia concerning the organ in de Martinikerk te Groningen. Groningen 1972.
  • With Helmut Winter: The Schnitger organ in Cappel. St. Petri and Pauli . Wagner, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-921029-52-X ( partly online [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  • Organ building in the Ems-Dollart area in Gothic and Renaissance periods . In: Ostfriesland. Magazine for culture, economy and transport . No. 2 , 1978, p. 29-33 .
  • The Schnitger researcher Gustav Fock 1893–1974 . In: Ostfriesland. Magazine for culture, economy and transport . No. 2 , 1978, ISSN  0030-6479 , p. 42-46 .
  • Organ building in East Frisia today . In: Ostfriesland. Magazine for culture, economy and transport . No. 2 , 1978, p. 33-34 .
  • With Helmut Winter : The Huss organ in Stade, St. Cosmae . KD Wagner, Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-921029-51-1 .
  • Het hoofdorgel van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam . Amsterdam 1981.
  • The organ of the Martinikerk in Groningen . In: Het Orgel . tape 81 , 1985, pp. 282-286 .
  • Rudolph Agricola and the Organ of the Martinikerk . In: Fokke Akkerman, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (Ed.): Rodolphus Agricola. Phrisius (1444-1485) . Brepols, Leiden 1988. pp. 112-117.
  • The pipework. In: Heimo Reinitzer (Hrsg.): The Arp Schnitger organ of the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1187-4 , pp. 186-226, 252-263.
  • With Anette Kruse: Roskilde domkirkes organ . Roskilde Domkirkes Salgsfond, Roskilde 2005, ISBN 87-90043-15-4 .
  • About the pitch and temperature of the Arp Schnitger organ from St. Jacobi in Hamburg . In: Hans Davidsson, Paul Peeters (eds.): Cornelius H. Edskes doctor honoris causa . Göteborgs University, Department of Musicology, Göteborg 1996, ISBN 91-85974-37-4 , pp. 19-41.
  • Less is more. On the history of the organ in Roskilde Cathedral . In: Organ International . Vol. 5, 2001, pp. 308-313.
  • With Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 .

literature

  • Hermann J. Busch: Edskes, Cor. In: Hermann J. Busch, Matthias Geuting (Ed.): Lexicon of the organ. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2007, ISBN 978-3-89007-508-2 , p. 193.
  • Hans Davidsson , Paul Peeters (Eds.): Cornelius H. Edskes doctor honoris causa . Göteborgs University, Department of Musicology, Göteborg 1996, ISBN 91-85974-37-4 .
  • Hans Fidom: Interview with dr. hc Cor H. Edskes: "Ik streef naar 'geobjectiveerde subjectiviteit'" . In: Het Orgel . Vol. 98, No. 4, 2002, pp. 4-11.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orgelkunst.be: Cor Edskes overleden . Retrieved August 30, 2019 . (Dutch).
  2. ^ Reformatorisch Dagblad of September 8, 2015: Organ professor Cor Edskes overleden , accessed on August 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Cornelius H. Edskes, Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 239 .
  4. ↑ Busch: Edskes, Cor. 2007, p. 194.
  5. ↑ Hans Fidom: Interview with dr. hc Cor H. Edskes: "Ik streef naar 'geobjectiveerde subjectiviteit'". In: Het organ . Vol. 8, No. 4, 2002, pp. 4-11.
  6. ↑ Davidsson, Peeters (ed.): Cornelius H. Edskes doctor honoris causa . 1996, p. 13.
  7. ↑ Cornelius H. Edskes: The pipework . In: Heimo Reinitzer (Hrsg.): The Arp Schnitger organ of the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1187-4 , pp. 186-195, 252-263.
  8. ↑ Peter Golon: And yet it was! Schnitger and Basedow , accessed August 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ Heimo Reinitzer (ed.): The Arp Schnitger organ of the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1187-4 , p. 130.
  10. ↑ a b Davidsson, Peeters (ed.): Cornelius H. Edskes doctor honoris causa . 1996, p. 9.
  11. ↑ Helsingør, Sancta Mariæ Kirke , accessed August 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ Davidsson, Peeters (ed.): Cornelius H. Edskes doctor honoris causa . 1996, p. 14.
  13. ^ Organ archive Klaas Bolt. (PDF) Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ rhinegold.co.uk: Cornelius Edskes (1925-2015) , accessed on August 30 of 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Edskes, Cornelius H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edskes, Cor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch organ expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2015
Place of death Haren