Organs of the Neustädter Church (Hanover)

Emmanuel Le Divellec will play the new Thomas organ in public for the first time on October 26, 2019.

The organs of the Neustädter Kirche in the Hanoverian district of Calenberger Neustadt are the so-called Spanish organ from 2001 by Patrick Collon from Belgium with 18 divided registers and the so-called Bach organ created in 2019 by the Belgian organ builder Dominique Thomas as the new main organ , which has over 51 Register on three manuals and pedal. It replaces Detlef Kleuker's main organ with 38 registers , which was sold in 2010 .

Main organ

For the year 1575, the activity of the organ builder Christoff Kahren in the previous building is proven. The Hanoverian court organ builder Hermann Willenbrock (Wullenbrock) created a new organ for the new church, which was inaugurated on May 25, 1702. Organ builder Christian Vater , who was baptized in Neustädter Church on November 11, 1679, took over the office of organist in 1708/1709 from his late father-in-law Johann Anton Coberg . From 1706 to 1756 father, who was initially in competition with Wullenbrock, was responsible for the maintenance and tuning of the organ and received 50 Reichstaler annually for the maintenance work on the organ in the castle chapel . For a major repair of the Neustädter organ in 1719, father received an additional 50 Rthlr. The brothers Carl Wilhelm and Eduard Meyer built a new organ in a baroque case in 1857/1858, which was equipped with 44 stops on three manuals and a pedal . This instrument was destroyed in World War II.

Organ after World War II

After the church was rebuilt, Detlef Kleuker built a new main organ on the west gallery in 1963, which had 38 registers distributed over three manuals and pedals. Stylistically, the instrument with the numerous reed registers and mixed voices in all four works was strongly “neo-baroque”. The organ was decommissioned due to irreparable material defects and sold to the Netherlands in June 2010. In 2013/2014 Ide Boogaard installed the organ in a heavily modified form in the Ichthuskerk in Urk , using a pipe work and the wind chests from Kleuker . The instrument had the following disposition in the Neustadt church :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Quintad 16 ′ Principal 08th' Capstan flute 08th' octave 04 ′ Dumped 04 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 02 ′ Mixture VI Sharp cymbal III Trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 08th'

II Swell C – g 3 Reed flute 08th' Viola da gamba 08th' Principal 04 ′ Gemshorn 04 ′ Forest flute 02 ′ Sesquialtera II Scharff V Dulcian 16 ′ oboe 08th'

III Breastwork C – g 3 Dumped 08th' Reed flute 04 ′ Principal 02 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Terzian II Zimbel III shelf 08th' tremolo

Pedal C – f 1 Principal 16 ′ Sub-bass 16 ′ octave 08th' Dumped 08th' octave 04 ′ High flute 04 ′ Peasant flute 02 ′ Mixture VI trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' Clairon 04 ′

• Coupling : II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P
• Playing aids : 2 free combinations, pleno, tongues off

The installation of an organ from the English workshop Forster & Andrews from 1902 as the new main organ on the west gallery was planned for 2011, but was not carried out. Instead, the English organ was installed in the Nazareth Church in 2018 by Organ Builder Reinhard Hüfken .

New baroque organ

Thomas organ console

After 112 months, the church received a new organ in place of the one sold in 2010. The Belgian workshop Manufacture d'orgues Thomas in Stavelot built a "Bach organ" as the new main organ (III + P / 51), which the Hanover University of Music will also use.

In autumn 2019, the new building of a baroque organ with 2,930 pipes, which was built in spring, was inaugurated. It is owned by the Hanover University of Music. The financing was provided by the state of Lower Saxony with 1.2 million euros and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover with 76,000 euros. The parish financed the renovation of the organ loft, which cost around 150,000 euros.

I Hinterwerk C – f 3 Dumped 08th' Pointed flute 08th' Quintadena 08th' Salicional 08th' Transverse flute 04 ′ Fugara 04 ′ Gemshorn 02 ′ Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ Cornet III Dulcian 16 ′ Schalmey 08th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – f 3 Principal 16 ′ Principal 08th' Reed flute 08th' Gemshorn 08th' Viola di gamba0 08th' Octava 04 ′ Pointed flute 04 ′ Quinta 03 ′ Octava 02 ′ Sesquialtera I 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Mixture IV-VI 02 ′ Cymbel III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ bassoon 16 ′ Trumpet 08th'

III Oberwerk C – f 3 Quintadena 16 ′ Principal 08th' Dumped 08th' Transverse flute 08th' Unda Maris 08th' Octava 04 ′ Pipe flute 04 ′ Nasat 03 ′ Octava 02 ′ Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Sifflöt 01' Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Cromhorn 08th' Vox humana 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Pedestal 32 ′ Principal bass0 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Violon bass 16 ′ Octavbass 08th' Dacked bass 08th' Violon 08th' Octava 04 ′ Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Trombone bass 16 ′ Trumpet bass 08th' Clarin bass 08th'

• Pairing :
  • Manual coupling: I / II, III / II (sliding coupling)
  • Pedal coupling: I / P, II / P, III / P
• Cymbelstern
• Mood : Well-tempered Le Divellec after Neidhardt I (for a big city)
• Pitch : a ¹ = 440 Hz at 16 °

• Extensions
  • Base 32 ′: from c ⁰ from Subbass 16 ′
  • Violon 8 ′: CH from violon bass 16 ′
  • Octavbass 8 ′: CH from Principalbass 16 ′

"Spanish organ" on the north gallery

Building history

The console of the Spanish organ

Spanish organ by Collon

Horizontal trumpets, including the horizontal shelf

The organ was built in 1998–2001 by Patrick Collon ( Belgium ). The instrument is set up on the north side gallery, lengthways approximately in the middle of the gallery.

The organ is not a replica of a particular Spanish baroque organ. Rather, it is a new building based on the design principles of the Spanish baroque organ. The construction is based on the 17th century organ in the Iglesia Colegial in Lerma ( Castile / near Burgos ). Other models are the organs from Covarrubias (Province of Burgos) and from Lietor (Province of Albacete ).

The organ is not owned by the parish, but by the Hanover University of Music and Drama, whose students also play on it during lessons and in master classes. This organ, together with the organ of the Evangelical Church in Züsch built in 2002 and the true-to-style copy built in 2014 for the Mainz University of Music, is one of the very rare instruments in the design of a Spanish baroque organ in Germany. It is also used for concerts and church services.

The instrument has a short octave , its registers are divided between c ¹ and c sharp ¹ , the wind pressure is 64 mm water column and the tuning is mid-tone in the low concert pitch (a ¹  = 415 Hz). This makes it particularly suitable for the presentation of organ literature from the early 16th to the 18th century.

The organ has slider chests and a purely mechanical play and stop action . The wind is supplied either by an electric fan or purely mechanically by a second person ( Kalkant ) who alternately pulls up two bellows by hand with two cords led out on the side of the housing.

The Violón register is used on this instrument for both the Gedackt 16 'and Gedackt 8' registers. The registers Lleno and Cimbala contain only fifth and octave choirs. The instrument has two horizontally in the brochure attached reeds : The upper row of pipes, a conical Horizontal trumpet ( Spanish trumpet ), consists in the bass from the register Bajoncillo in 4'-position and in the treble from the Clarín in 8'-position together. The Orłoś including one with short, partially covered cylindrical cans equipped horizontal shelf . The other trumpet stops are placed inside the organ case.

Disposition since 2001

Manual CDEFGA – c 3 Violón B / D 16 ′ Flautado B / D 08th' Violón B / D 08th' Octava B / D 04 ′ Octava nasarda B / D00 04 ′ Docena B / D 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Quincena B / D 02 ′ Diezisetena B / D 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Diezinovena B / D 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Lleno B / D Cimbala B / D Corneta D. 08th' Trompeta magna D. 16 ′ Trompeta real B / D 08th' Clarín B 04 ′ Clarín D 08th' Bayjoncillo B 04 ′ Orlos B / D 08th' Temblante

Pedal CDEFGA-G sharp 0 Attached, plug pedal

Technical specifications

• 17 registers
• Wind supply :
  • Electric blower
  • 2 bellows

Recordings / sound carriers

• Roland Götz : Roland Götz plays Francisco Correa de Arauxo . CD. Studio XVII Augsburg, 2003.
• Pier Damiano Peretti : Under the Spanish Crown (organ music from the "siglo de oro" by Bruna , Cornet , Correa de Arauxo , Froberger , Palero and Salvatore). CD. Motet, 2006.

literature

• University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover - Church Music Department (Ed.): Inauguration of the new baroque organ. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis. Hanover 2019.
• Patrick Collon: The Spanish organ of the Hanover University of Music. In: Ars Organi . 51, 2003, pp. 43-45
• Patrick Colon: What is a Spanish Organ? Explanations on the Spanish organ of the Hanover University of Music and Theater in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . and Paul-Uwe Ditzsch: The color version of the Spanish organ , in: Parish council of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis Hannover (ed.): Information brochure on the Spanish organ ( untitled ), Hanover (without year, end of 2001)
• Ruth M. Seiler (Ed.): The Spanish organ of the Hanover University of Music and Theater in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . Kallenbach, Detmold 2001.
• Reinhard Skupnik: The Hanoverian organ builder Christian Vater 1679–1756 (= publications of the organ science research center in the musicology seminar of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster , vol. 8). Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7618-0543-8 .

Web links

Commons : Organs of the Neustädter Kirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kleuker organ on organ database (Dutch)
• Spanish organ on pipe organs in Hanover
• Spanish organ on organ database (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skupnik: The Hanoverian organ builder Christian Vater. 1976, p. 28.
2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher (Ed.): Hannoversches biographical lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 368.
3. ↑ Skupnik: The Hanoverian organ builder Christian Vater. 1976, p. 29.
4. ↑ Kleuker organ in Urk (Dutch), accessed on November 1, 2019.
5. ↑ Kleuker Organ , accessed on November 1, 2019.
6. ^ Pipe organs in Hanover , accessed on January 1, 2020.
7. ^ Organ building Hüfken: Hanover. Retrieved November 1, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Lothar Mohn in: The Bridge. Church bulletin , August October 2019, p. 8
9. ↑ Website of the organ building company Thomas , accessed on January 3, 2020
10. ^ Raliza Nikolov: Hanover: New baroque organ for Neustädter Church. In: Internet presence. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , April 4, 2019, accessed on November 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Patrick Collon: The Spanish organ of the Hanover University of Music. In: Ars Organi . 51, 2003, pp. 43-45.
12. ↑ Patrick Colon: What is a Spanish Organ? Explanations on the Spanish organ of the Hanover University of Music and Theater in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis , in: Parish council of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis Hannover (publisher): Information on the Spanish organ (untitled), Hannover (no year, end of 2001), p. 5
13. ↑ St. Johannis Music Foundation , accessed on November 1, 2019.
14. ↑ Kantorei St. Johannis , accessed on November 1, 2019.