Organ of the Engelberg monastery

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Organ of the Engelberg monastery
General
place Engelberg Monastery
Organ builder Friedrich Goll , Goll Organ Builders
Construction year 1877/1926
Last renovation / restoration Organ building Graf, 1993
Illustrations
Prospectus of the organ

Prospectus of the organ
Technical specifications
Number of pipes 9097
Number of registers 137
Number of rows of pipes 157
Number of manuals 4th
Number of 32 'registers 2

The main organ of Engelberg Monastery is the largest organ in Switzerland .

The organ goes back to an instrument by Friedrich Goll from the years 1876/77 and is located in the collegiate church of the Benedictine monastery Engelberg in Engelberg . After extensions, the instrument now has 137 stops on four manuals and pedal . It should not be confused with the smaller choir organ from 1902 with 26 registers in the same church .

Building history

Friedrich Goll created a new organ for the monastery church as opus 12 with 50 stops on three manuals and pedal. It featured cone shops with bar handles and a swell .

The instrument has undergone several modifications. Organ builders Goll & Cie expanded the instrument to 134 registers between 1924 and 1926, installed a new console and installed a pneumatic tube system . The contract originally provided for 121 registers . A principal 8 'was added later.

From 1992 to 1993 a restoration was carried out by Orgelbau Graf AG. The instrument received a new console with a composer system and two new pedal registers. Today the organ has 137 registers with a total of 9097 organ pipes . The largest pipe measures 9.06 meters, the smallest has a length of 5 mm.

The instrument has numerous swell boxes that are staggered and enable orchestral, stepless dynamics. With the exception of the main work and the large pedal, all works are swellable, part of the upper work even two-fold and two stops three-fold. Six swell steps control the pneumatic coupling. The registers 50, 51 and 52 are built as penetrating tongues . The keyboards and stops are electric.

Disposition since 1993

I main work C – c 4
1. Major principal 16 ′
2. Gross Bourdon 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Solo principal 8th'
5. Flute Principal 8th'
6th Tibia 8th'
7th flute 8th'
8th. Flauto dolce 8th'
9. Gemshorn 8th'
10. Bourdon 8th'
11. Gamba 8th'
12. Dolce 8th'
13. Cornett V 8th'
14th Major fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Prestant 4 ′
16. Gemsoctave 4 ′
17th Hollow flute 4 ′
18th Dolciato 4 ′
19th Major third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Mixture IV-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Major seventh 2 2 ⁄ 7  ′
23. Super octave 2 ′
24. Flautino 2 ′
Sharp V (from 23, 26, 27, 28) 2 ′
Cymbel III (from 24, 27, 28) 2 ′
25th Major ninth 1 7 ⁄ 9  ′
26th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
27. Super-fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Sif flute 1'
29 Bombard 16 ′
30th Trumpet 8th'
31. Clairon 4 ′
II Echowerk C – c 4
32. Gross Salicional 16 ′
33. Large-covered 16 ′
34. Lovely principal 8th'
35. Suavial 8th'
36. Flauto amoroso 8th'
37. Pointed flute 8th'
38. Dumped 8th'
39. viola 8th'
40. Dulciana 8th'
41. Unda maris 8th'
Dolce Cornett V (from 38, 44, 46, 48, 49) 8th'
42. Small principal 4 ′
43. Transverse flute 4 ′
44. Reed flute 4 ′
45. Salicet 4 ′
46. Dolcequinte 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
47. Dolce mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
48. Octavine 2 ′
49. Dolce third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
50. Dulcian 16 ′
51. Physharmonica 8th'
52. Clarinet 8th'
53. Cromorne 8th'
54. shawm 4 ′
Tremolo lento
Tremolo vivo
III Solo work C – c 4
55. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
56. Violin principal 8th'
57. Solo flute 8th'
58. Viennese flute 8th'
59. Lovely bourdon 8th'
60. Double flute 8th'
61. Quintatön 8th'
62. Salicional 8th'
63. Aeoline 8th'
64. Vox coelestis 8th'
Solo cornet V (from 59, 65, 69, 71, 73) 8th'
String Cornet V (from 62, 68, 70, 72, 73) 8th'
65. Smalled up 4 ′
66. Small pointed flute 4 ′
67. Flûte d'amour 4 ′
68. Viole d'amour 4 ′
Harmonia aetherea III (from 68, 70, 72) 4 ′
69. Cane fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
70. String fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
71. Flageolet 2 ′
72. Soft violin 2 ′
73. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
74. Basset horn 16 ′
75. Oboe 8th'
76. French horn 8th'
77. English horn 4 ′
Tremolo lento
Tremolo vivo
IV Upper structure C – c 4
78. Cane-covered 16 ′
79. Horn principal 8th'
80. Fugara 8th'
81. Night horn 8th'
82. Flûte harmonique 8th'
83. Flute covered 8th'
84. Echo Bourdon 8th'
85. cello 8th'
86. violin 8th'
87. Vox angelica 8th'
88 Harmonica 8th'
Echo-Cornett V (from 83, 89, 93, 95, 96) 8th'
89. Octave 4 ′
90. Little Fugara 4 ′
91. Distance flute 4 ′
92. Flûte pastoral 4 ′
93. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
94. Echo Mixture IV-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
95. Piccolo 2 ′
Larigot II (from 95, 97) 2 ′
Acuta V (from 95, 96, 97, 98, 99) 2 ′
96. Echo third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
97. Echo super-fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
98 Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
99 None 8 ⁄ 9 ′
100. Basson 16 ′
101. Vox humana 8th'
102. saxophone 8th'
103. tuba 8th'
104. Trompette harmonique 8th'
105. Dulcian fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
106. Clarino 4 ′
107. Euphon ore 3 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremolo lento
Tremolo vivo
Pedal C – g 1
108. Contraprincipal bass 32 ′
109. Principal bass 16 ′
110. Violon bass 16 ′
111. Gemshorn bass 16 ′
112. Sub bass 16 ′
Large-Covered (from 33) 16 ′
Thatched (from 78) 16 ′
113. Covered 16 ′
Gross-Salicional (from 32) 16 ′
114. Harmonic bass (beat) 16 ′
Cornettbass VI (from 118, 120, 121, 124, 129, 130) 16 ′
115. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
116. Octavbass 8th'
117. Flute bass 8th'
118. Covered bass 8th'
119. violoncello 8th'
Harmonica (from 88) 8th'
120. Third bass 6 2 ⁄ 5  ′
121. Bass major fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Bass-Gross-Mixtur VIII (from 121, 125, 131) 6 1 ⁄ 3  ′
122. Seventh bass 4 4 ⁄ 7  ′
123. Principal flute 4 ′
124. Delicately covered 4 ′
125. Rauschpfeife IV 4 ′
126. Non-bass 3 5 ⁄ 9  ′
127. Bass major third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
128. Bass fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
129. Bass major seventh 2 2 ⁄ 7  ′
130. Flauto 2 ′
131. Back set III 2 ′
132. Bass major ninth 1 7 ⁄ 9  ′
133. Contrabombarde 32 ′
Basson (from 102) 16 ′
134. Trombone bass 16 ′
135. Trumpet bass 8th'
136. bassoon 8th'
137. Bass clarino 4 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling : II / I, III / I, IV / I, I / II, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
    • Super octave couplers (II, III and IV expanded to c 5 ): II / I, III / I, IV / I, II / II, III / II, IV / II, III / III, IV / III, IV / IV , II / P, III / P, IV / P
    • Sub-octave couplings : II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III
  • Playing aids :
    • 256-fold electronic setting system
    • Sequencer
    • Swell mechanism complete, swell mechanism inside, swell mechanism especially for Echo-Bourdon (84) and Vox humana (101), swell mechanism for the small pedal

literature

  • Norbert Hegner: The big organ in the Engelberg monastery church. Stiftsdruckerei, Engelberg 1976.
  • Christian Schweizer: Organs in the Nidwalden and Engelberg Region: From the 13th Century to the Present. Keller, Lucerne 1983.
Engelberg Collegiate Church

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disposition
  2. ↑ www.edition-lade.com: Information about the organ , seen October 14, 2011.
  3. ↑ www.graf-orgelbau.ch: Information on the organ , seen October 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ www.edition-lade.com: Disposition , as seen on September 14, 2013.

Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '14.7 "  N , 8 ° 24' 35.7"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seventy-four thousand one hundred and eighteen  /  185,968