Organs of the Scheyern basilica

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Organs of the Scheyern basilica
Scheyern Basilica Organ 192.jpg
General
place Scheyern basilica
Organ builder Georg Jann
Construction year 1979
epoch 20th century
Organ landscape Upper Bavaria
Technical specifications
Number of pipes 2526
Number of registers 39
Number of manuals 3
Tone tract mechanically
Register action electro-pneumatic
Others
Eminent organists

Karl-Heinz Söndermann , Christian Bischof , Markus Rupprecht

The organ of the Scheyern Basilica , consecrated in 1979, was made by the master organ builder Georg Jann . The previous instrument was built in 1907 and rebuilt by the Nenninger company in the 1960s .

Main organ

Building history

New building by Jann 1979

The main organ, built in 1979 by Georg Jann (today: Thomas Jann Orgelbau ), has 2526 pipes , a free-standing console, 39 sounding registers , 46 stop pulls , a purely mechanical tone action, grinding windchest, electro-pneumatic stop action and 5 mechanical setting combinations. The organ was built into a neo-baroque main housing which was changed in its external shape. The Rückpositiv was designed in connection with the redesign of the gallery parapet by the architect Schedl.

Disposition from 1979

Main organ

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Wooden flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera 2 23 ′ + 1 35
Fifth 1 13
Cymbel III-IV 1'
musette 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 23
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV-VI 1 13
Cornett V
Trumpet 8th'
III Solo work C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Salizional 8th'
Beat 8th'
viola 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Nasat 2 23
Night horn 2 ′
third 1 35
Scharff IV 1 13
shelf 16 ′
Kromorne 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Revelation 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Fifth 10 23
Octave bass 8th'
Pipe bass 8th'
Hollow flute 4 ′
Mixture V 2 '
Bombard 16 ′
trombone 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
  • Pairing : I / P, II / P, III / P, I / II and III / II.

Chapter Church

Current organ

Built in 1970 by WRK-Orgelbau , Munich.

I. Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
mixture 1 13
II. Manual C-g 3
Willow pipe 8th'
flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Pedal C – g 1
Sub bass 16 ′


Organists

literature

Recordings / sound carriers

  • Organ music from the Scheyern Benedictine Abbey - Harald Feller (2004), Symicon, Hybrid SACD
  • Jozef Sluys plays Bach on the Jann organ of the Scheyern Benedictine Abbey (1995), Christophorus Records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Jann organ
  2. according to the invoice - see Scheyern monastery archive
  3. SYMICON online , accessed January 30, 2011.
  4. available from amazon.de, accessed on January 31, 2011