Organ of the Dominican Church in Vilnius

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Organ of the Dominican Church in Vilnius
General
place Holy Spirit Vilnius Monastery Church
Organ builder Adam Gottlob Casparini
Construction year 1774-1776
Last renovation / restoration Rimantas Gučas , 1995-2006
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Lithuania
Illustrations
Šv. Dvasios bažnyčia Vilniuje. Vargonai.jpg
Technical specifications
Number of registers 31
Number of rows of pipes 38
Number of manuals 2

The organ of the Dominican monastery church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius is the only surviving organ from Adam Gottlob Casparini . Most of it has been preserved in its original condition from 1776 and is considered an important baroque organ. It has 31 registers with two manuals . The organ is located in the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit , in the old town of Vilnius .

history

New organ built 1774–1776

After the previous organ with the church burned down in 1770, Adam Gottlob Casparini from Königsberg was asked to build a new instrument. The contract was signed on January 19, 1774, and 350 gold pieces were promised. There is an inscription from this year in the wind chest of the cymbal register from his student Christoph Braveleit, who was obviously involved in the work. The prospectus was designed by Johann Holz from Vilnius, eight sculptures were carved by Anton Grosman. The organ was completed in the spring of 1776, and an inscription said March 20th. Paintings and gilding were made until 1787.

Some minor work was done in the 19th century. Around 1900 the keyboard of the manuals and the pedal were replaced.

Restoration 1995-2006

Since 1995 the organ building company of Rimantas Gučas from Vilnius has been restoring the organ. At the same time, a reconstruction of the instrument for Christ Church in Rochester, New York, began in 2000. This was intended to expand knowledge about the design of the instrument through detailed analyzes and thus support the restoration in Vilnius. The register Vox humana had to be recreated because the original was no longer available. The keyboard of the manual could be made from preserved parts of the Casparini organ from Barciany (Barten). In 2006 the restoration work was completed.

Disposition

The basic structure of the organ has largely been preserved in its original version. The register Vox Humana 8 ′ has been redesigned.

The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – c 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Idleness 8th'
Quintatena 8th'
Octava Principal 4 ′
Lull Travers 4 ′
Qvinta 3 ′
Great Octava 2 ′
Flasch Flöt 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixtura V
Trumpet [8th']
II Pozytyff C-c 3
Iula 8th'
Principal Amalel 8th'
Slack major 8th'
Unda Maris 8th'
Principal [4 ′]
Play flute 4 ′
Flaut Minor 4 ′
Octava 2 ′
Forest Flöt 2 ′
Mixtura IV
Vox Humana 8 ′ (rec.)
Pedal C – c 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Violon bass [1] 6 ′
Full bass 12 ′
Octava bass 8th'
Flaut & Quint Bass 8th'
Great Octava bass 4 ′
Trombone bass 16 ′
Trumpet bass 8th'

Effect register:

Valves:

  • Valve ad Clavituram Primam
  • Valve ad clavituram secundam
  • Valve pedal

Technical specifications:

  • Concert pitch a 1 = 465 Hz
  • Tuning: Neidhardt modified, 1732 ("for the village")

replica

Since 2000, the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt) company has been building a faithful copy of the Vilnius organ. After extensive documentation, construction began in 2004 with the support of a team of experts. In 2008 the organ was inaugurated at Christ Church in Rochester.

The register Vox humana 8 ′ was reconstructed according to historical models, as in Vilnius, Dulcian 16 ′ was the only new addition. The disposition is:

I main work C – c 3
Borduna 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Idleness 8th'
Quintathon 8th'
Lull Travers 4 ′
Octava Principal 4 ′
Qvinta 3 ′
Great Octava 2 ′
Flasch Flöt 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixtura IV-V
Trumpet 8th'
II Pozytyff C-c 3
Iula 8th'
Principal Amalel 8th'
Unda Maris 8th'
Slack major 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Play flute 4 ′
Flaut Minor 4 ′
Octava 2 ′
Forest Flöt 2 ′
Mixtura III-IV
Dulcian 16 ′ (added)
Vox Humana 8th'
Pedal C – c 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Octava bass 8th'
Flaut & Quint Bass 8th'
Full bass 8th'
Great Octava bass 4 ′
Trombone bass 16 ′
Trumpet bass 8th'

Other registers:

  • two tremolo
  • Gwiazdy (Zimbelstern)
  • Vox Campanorum (glockenspiel g 0 -d 3 )
  • Bebny (drum)
  • Calcant

Technical specifications:

  • Concert pitch a 1 = 465 Hz
  • Tuning: Neidhardt modified, 1732 ("for the village")

literature

  • Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume II, 2. Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 432–453.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Restoration Casparini 1776 (English)
  2. ^ The Organ Casparini 1776
  3. ↑ Vilnius, Dominican Church of the Holy Spirit Organ Index (German)
  4. ^ Organ in Rochester Göteborg Organ Art Center (English)
  5. ^ Pipe Organs in Rochester Christ Church Rochester
  6. ^ Organ in Rochester Göteborg Organ Art Center