Organ of the Moritzkirche (Halle)
Organ of the Moritzkirche (Halle) | |
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General | |
alternative name | Moritz organ |
place | Moritzkirche (hall) |
Organ builder | W. Sauer organ building Frankfurt (Oder) |
Construction year | 1925-1927 |
Last renovation / restoration | 2009–2011 by organ builder Reinhard Hüfken Halberstadt |
epoch | Late Romanticism |
Technical specifications | |
Number of registers | 59 (+ 4 transmissions) |
Number of rows of pipes | 85 |
Number of manuals | 3 |
Wind chest | Pocket drawer |
Tone tract | Pneumatic |
Register action | Pneumatic |
Number of 32 'registers | 1 |
Number of 64 'registers | - |
Others | |
Eminent organists |
The organ of the Moritzkirche (Halle) , popularly called Moritzorgel for short , was built in 1925 as opus 1307 by the company W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) . It has 63 registers (including 4 transmissions), distributed over three manuals and pedal . The action is purely pneumatic, the wind chest system of the action action is the pocket drawer .
As a monument organ, it is an important example of German late romantic organ building art.
Building history
New building by Sauer 1925–1927
In the 1920s, Adolf Wieber, organist of the Moritzkirche, suggested building a new organ in the Moritzkirche; then there were negotiations in 1925 with Wilhelm Rühlmann ( Zörbig ) and Wilhelm Sauer ( Frankfurt (Oder) ). The Sauer company received the order to build the new organ. The final cost estimate, which led to the order being placed on June 17, 1925, was over 32,200 Reichsmarks . The Sauer company took parts of the old organ in payment, but did not use them to build the new organ.
In many other important churches in the city there were organs from the Rühlmann company, for example in the market church of Our Lady , in the Ulrichskirche (today's concert hall) and in other churches. These organs were still characterized by the industrial production customary at the time; Sauer, on the other hand, had already abandoned it.
On September 13, 1925, the organ was inaugurated by the Thomaskantor Günther Ramin ; Oscar Rebling, then organist at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women , prepared the acceptance report . The organ initially had 53 stops. Both the console and the inside of the organ were left with space for later extensions, which were carried out in 1926 and 1927. After that the organ had reached its current number of 63 registers. The organ was definitely intended as a concert instrument, as the expansion of the manual keyboards to five whole octaves and the provision of playing aids show. Thus, in addition to being used in church services, the organ was also used for concerts. She had the following disposition :
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In the swell, all registers except for those marked with * are expanded up to c 5
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: III / II, III / I, II / I, I / P, II / P, III / P, P / II.
- Super octave coupling: Super III, Super III / II, Super III / I.
- Sub-octave coupling: Sub III, Sub III / II, Sub III / I.
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, fixed combinations: P, MF, F, FF, Tutti, wind choir, flute choir, string choir, trigger, roller off, tongues off, hand register off, coupling out of the roller, hand register for Fr. Comb., Crescendo Roller, pedal down, manual 16 ′ down, switches off.
Reconstruction in 1945
There were drastic changes to the organ in 1945, when Cantor Heinz Wunderlich was working as organist at the Moritzkirche: An organ builder from Crimmitschau (Michel) changed eight registers in line with the organ movement . She then had the following disposition:
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In the swell, all registers except for those marked with * are expanded up to c 5
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: III / II, III / I, II / I, I / P, II / P, III / P, P / II.
- Super octave coupling: Super III, Super III / II, Super III / I.
- Sub-octave coupling: Sub III, Sub III / II, Sub III / I.
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, fixed combinations: P, MF, F, FF, Tutti, wind choir, flute choir, string choir, trigger, roller off, tongues off, hand register off, coupling out of the roller, hand register for Fr. Comb., Crescendo Roller, pedal down, manual 16 ′ down, switches off.
- Notes A.
- ↑ Until 1945: Bourdun 16 ′.
- ↑ Until 1945: fifths 5 1 ⁄ 3 ′.
- ↑ Until 1945: viol 8 ′.
- ↑ Until 1945: Gambetta 4 ′.
- ↑ Until 1945: Viola 8 ′.
- ^ Until 1945: Oboe 8 ′.
- ^ Up to 1945: Salicional 8 ′.
- ^ Until 1945: Fugara 4 ′.
- ↑ Until 1945: Cello 8 ′ .
Until 1969 Helmut Gleim was cantor at the Moritzkirche. He continued the practices of his predecessors Wieber and Wunderlich.
The organ began to deteriorate in the 1970s after the use of the Moritzkirche by the Protestant community at the time was discontinued and the organ was forgotten. During the extensive restoration of the building after the right of use was handed over to the newly founded Catholic parish of Halle-Neustadt , the organ was defenselessly exposed to the adversities during the construction work; in the end it made it unplayable.
Repair from 1998
When Ernestine Frost started working as a church musician in 1979, efforts were made to make the organ playable again. The waiting time estimated by the Sauer company was 15 years. In a first phase in 1998/1999, Sauer made the organ playable again.
In 1999 the organ sounded for the first time in twenty years. Eleven of the 63 registers were playable. Another construction phase followed in 2000/2001: 13 more registers were added, in 2002 another one, with which 25 of the 63 registers and 2 of the 3 manuals could be played.
Disposition since 2001
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- s = playable again since 2001
In the swell, all registers except for those marked with * are expanded up to c 5
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: III / II, III / I, II / I <, I / P, II / P, III / P, P / II
- Super octave coupling: Super III, Super III / II, Super III / I.
- Sub-octave coupling: Sub III, Sub III / II, Sub III / I.
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, fixed combinations: P, MF, F, FF, Tutti , brass choir, flute choir, string choir, trigger, roller off, tongues off, hand register off, coupling out of the roller, hand register for Fr. combination, crescendo roller , Pedal down, Manual 16 ′ down, switches off.
Restoration from 2009
A support association , together with Florian Kleidorfer, who had been a church musician at the Moritzkirche in Halle and the Propsteikirche in Halle since 2005 , advocated the continuation of the restoration of the Sauer organ in accordance with the monument and true to the original.
On September 13, 2005, and thus on the 80th anniversary of the organ's consecration, the Organ Friends' Association was founded. This serves to promote the restoration of the organ and aims to provide ideal and financial support for all measures directly and indirectly aimed at it. It is recognized as particularly worthy of support and charitable. Among other things, benefit concerts are held and donations are collected for the organ.
Together with the Moritz parish in today's Catholic parish Halle-Mitte, numerous efforts were made to raise the necessary financial resources and to keep the organ in the public consciousness. As a result of these efforts, the complete restoration of the organ began in December 2009, restoring its original condition.
The organ restoration was carried out by the organ building company Reinhard Hüfken from Halberstadt. As part of the 600th anniversary of the Moritzkirche, Bishop Gerhard Feige inaugurated the fully restored organ on September 18, 2011. Since this faithful return, the instrument has its original disposition from 1925/27.
According to the expert opinion of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony-Anhalt from August 16, 2005, the historic Sauer organ of the Moritzkirche is an integral part of the equipment of this church and part of a cultural monument. Regardless of this context, the instrument is to be assessed as a monument organ of outstanding historical and musical value and to be treated according to the provisions of the Monument Protection Act.
Technical specifications
- 59 registers + 4 transmissions, rows of pipes, pipes.
- Wind chest : pocket drawer.
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Game table (s) :
- Detached.
- 3 manuals.
- Pedal.
- Register rockers.
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Action :
- Sound treatment: Pneumatic
- Stop action: Pneumatic
Organists
- Adolf Wieber
- 1943–1957: Heinz Wunderlich (1919–2012)
- 1957–1969: Helmut Gleim
- 1979–2005: Ernestine Frost († 2013)
- 2005–2011: Florian Kleidorfer
- 2011–2012: Tobias Geuther (vacancy replacement, honorary)
- since 2013: Tobias Fraß
literature
- Katrin Barnick: Organ is no longer silent: first concert in 30 years . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . tape 11 , 2000, pp. 14 .
- Holger Brülls: The Sauer organ from 1925 in the Moritzkirche in Halle, an important organ monument of the 20th century . In: Saxony-Anhalt: Journal for nature and homeland friends . tape 16 , 2006, ISSN 0940-7960 , p. 26-28 .
- Karl Friedrich Senff : Sermon at the inauguration of the newly built organ in the St. Moritz Church in Halle: on the 22nd Sunday after the Trinity. Held in 1784; Along with a short message about the construction of this organ . Gebauer, hall 1784.