Organ of the Dorpskerk Noordbroek

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Organ of the Dorpskerk Noordbroek
Noordbroek organ.jpg
General
alternative name Schnitger organ
place Dorpskerk Noordbroek
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1695-1696
Last renovation / restoration 1955–1958 Cornelius H. Edskes , Simon Graafhuis
epoch Baroque
Technical specifications
Number of registers 24
Number of rows of pipes 33
Number of manuals 2
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically

The organ of the Dorpskerk Noordbroek in the Dutch province of Groningen was completed by Arp Schnitger in 1696 . Today it has 24  registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The case and the original register inventory have largely been preserved in their condition from 1809.

Building history

New building by Schnitger 1695–1696

Crowning structure above the Rückpositiv from 1809

In the large medieval cruciform church in Noordbroek there was a previous organ, from which Schnitger took three high-quality registers for his new building from 1695–1696, two flute parts in the Rückpositiv and the fifth 3 ′ in the main work. The new organ comprised 20 registers, which were divided into the main work, Rückpositiv and pedal work. The pedal mechanism was placed behind the case of the main mechanism, as with the organ in Cappel (1680) and the organ in Uithuizen (1701). The exact disposition is not known. After the expansion of the organ in the Martinikerk in Groningen between 1691 and 1692, Schnitger's organ in Noordbroek was his first major work in the Netherlands.

The Rückpositiv case in the gallery parapet is the reduced form of the Hauptwerk case and still has the original five-part Schnitger shape. The elevated polygonal central tower is flanked by two pointed towers. In between there are two-story flat fields that are divided by profiled transom strips .

Later work

Albertus Antonius Hinsz added three registers to the instrument in 1768 and enlarged the manual housing towards the rear for this purpose. He also built in new manual keyboards with a larger pitch range. The main work was now playable from the lower manual. For the manual works, Hinsz created new wind chests and new carvings. Hinsz placed a cartouche under the Rückpositiv with an inscription, which is surrounded by rich carvings in the Rococo style .

A major renovation was carried out between 1806 and 1809 by Heinrich Hermann Freytag on a new wooden gallery. The parapet is decorated with relief-like carvings in panels between pilasters . Freytag moved the pedal work with new drawers to the side of the main work and added a register. For the new pedal towers, he made new prospect pipes with pointed upper labia in the style of the early 17th century. When designing the prospect pipes and the pedals, Freytag may have taken inspiration from the organ in Noordwolde, on which he had worked in 1802. He connected the pedal towers with the Hauptwerk case by flat panels in the Schnitger style, so that the organ now has a greatly widened, nine-axis front. In addition, crowning vases and urns on the case as well as new side wings were added and almost the entire carving and ornaments in the pipe fields were renewed in the classicism style by the sculptor Mattheus Walles. In this way, the prospectus combines different styles. Freytag built a new bellows system with four new wedge bellows behind the organ, where the pedals had previously been. The west wall behind the organ was painted with a drapery in 1809 . The total cost of the renovation was 3,450  guilders .

In 1855 Petrus van Oeckelen built in a pedal coupler and replaced three registers in the Rückpositiv.

Restorations

Plans in the 1920s for a comprehensive modernization did not come to fruition. The organologist Cornelius H. Edskes and Simon Graafhuis, who worked as an organist in Noordbroek from 1946 to 1983, traced the Rückpositiv back to the state of 1809 between 1955 and 1958. The removal of the layers of paint from the gallery and organ case was completed as part of the church renovation between 1968 and 1974. In 1974 Graafhuis repaired the organ. The Flentrop company reversed van Oeckelen's conversion of the Quintadena 16 'into a Bourdun 16'. Berend Veger & Winold van der Putten carried out further work in 1983 and partially restored the reeds. Veger and van der Putten carried out another repair in 1996. In 1998, the registration plates were renewed in accordance with the information in the 1806 contract with Freytag. In addition, the manual keyboards were restored. In 2001 Mense Ruiter restored the bellows and built a new wind tunnel. A year later, Ruiter re-intoned three registers of the Rückpositiv. The dark color of the prospect pipes is due to a smoldering fire in the church. In 2003, the Ruiter workshop put the waiters in the mood. In 2015 the windchests were restored.

Disposition since 1958

I main work C – c 3
Praestant 8th' Fr.
Quintads 16 ′ H / E
Holpijp 8th' S.
Octaaf 4 ′ S.
Speelfluit 4 ′ S.
Quint 3 ′ V / S
Octaaf 2 ′ S.
Mixing door IV – V 1' S / H
Trumpet 8th' S.
Vox humana 8th' H
II Rückpositiv C – c 3
Praestant 4 ′ Fr.
Fluit douce 8th' V / S / H
Spitsfluit 4 ′ V / S / H
Octaaf 2 ′ vO / E
Sesquialter II-III 2 ⁄ 3 E.
Scherp III-IV 1 ⁄ 2 E.
Dulciaan 8th' H / E
Pedal C – d 1
Praestant 8th' Fr.
Bourdon 16 ′ S.
Gedekt 8th' Fr.
Octaaf 4 ′ S.
Bazuin 16 ′ S / Fr
Trumpet 8th' S / Fr
Cornet 4 ′ S / Fr
Remarks
V = from previous organ (probably Hendrick Huisz, 1658)
S = Schnitger (1696)
H = Hinsz (1768)
Fri = Friday (1809)
vO = van Oeckelen (1855)
E = Edskes (1955)

Technical specifications

  • 24 registers, 33 rows of pipes.
  • Wind supply :
    • Bellows: 4 wedge bellows (Freytag)
    • Wind pressure: 82 mm water column
  • Wind chests : Manuals (Hinsz), pedal (Freytag)
  • Action:
    • Keyboards (Hinsz)
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :
    • Well-tempered mood (Kellner-Bach modified)
    • Pitch: a little over half a tone above normal (a 1 = 470 Hz)

literature

Web links

Commons : Noordbroek church organ  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Arp Schnitger Orgeln (English), accessed on March 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 64.
  3. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 191.
  4. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 235.
  5. ↑ page by H.-W. Coordes , accessed March 2, 2018.
  6. ↑ Cornelius H. Edskes, Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and His Work . Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-092-9 , pp. 175 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 21.1 ″  E