Organs of the Königsberg Cathedral
The organs of the rebuilt Königsberg Cathedral are a four-manual main organ with 90 registers and a two-manual choir organ with 32 registers, which were built in 2006/07 by Schuke Orgelbau in Kaliningrad. Both are electronically linked and can be played together. The main organ is the largest organ in Russia.
history
Oldest organs
In 1333 the plans for the construction of the cathedral also included an organ on the rood screen. This is the oldest surviving mention of such an instrument in the entire Baltic region . In 1582 the City Council of Königsberg asked the Lübeck organ builder Julius Anthoni in vain to build a new organ for the cathedral. Who then built such a new instrument in 1586/87 is unknown, Joachim Zickermann would be possible . With 59 registers, this organ was the largest in Prussia and Western Pomerania . It had an upper work with 16 voices, a back positive with 18 voices, a chest positive with seven voices and a pedal with 18 voices. Eight secondary registers are known on side trains.
Mosengel organ from 1721
From 1718 to 1721 a new instrument was built by Johann Josua Mosengel . This had three manuals with a main movement with 17 registers, an upper positive with 14 registers, a chest positive with seven registers and a pedal with 20 registers. It was inaugurated in 1721.
A total of five conversions followed. Adam Gottlob Casparini continued the work from 1742. His organ builder Johann Preuss (1722–1798) and Wilhelm Braveleit (? -1795) are also mentioned as organ builders at the cathedral, until in 1888 the organ was completely rebuilt by Max Terletzki .
New building 1928/29
In the years 1928/1929 a completely new instrument from P. Furtwängler & Hammer was created behind the baroque prospectus including the prospectus pipes . This organ received three manuals and a pedal with a total of 64 stops and pneumatic action .
With the cathedral, the organ was destroyed by the air raids on Königsberg at the end of August 1944.
Today's organs
When the cathedral was rebuilt, which began in the 1990s, there was initially no priority for a new organ instrument. It was only during a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2005, whose wife Lyudmila is from Kaliningrad, that the financing of a new organ could be initiated. The Alexander Schuke Potsdam organ building in Werder (Havel) was commissioned . A total of 3.5 million euros was taken over by the Russian management for the two new instruments. The choir organ was inaugurated in 2006, the large main organ on 12/13. January 2008 with a festive concert.
Main organ
The large instrument was created in 2007 by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau . It has 90 sounding registers (6,269 pipes) on four manuals and pedal as well as an effect register (cymbal star). The three Chamaden registers can be freely coupled to each manual and the pedal. The wooden pipes were made by the Vogtland Organ Builder Thomas Wolf.
The prospect was largely based on photographs of the magnificent Baroque organ by Johann Josua Mosengel from 1721. It is decorated with 17 standing wooden figures and 6 moving figures. These were manufactured by Maxick from Kaliningrad under the direction of Max Ibragimow. Only minor changes were made to the baroque model: the organ is now crowned by a phoenix , as a sign of rebirth after the destruction, where a Prussian eagle was previously enthroned. A historicizing Madonna with child was placed in place of the former central figure David with the harp , which had no special meaning in the Orthodox tradition. The Königsberg city coat of arms has also been modified: a crowned Russian double-headed eagle now acts as a shield holder instead of the original Prussian eagle. The back positives, which stood in the middle of the gallery, were moved to the parapet. This was provided with a wrought iron grille that has no historical models. The steel frame for the main organ was built by a steel construction company from Kaliningrad.
Disposition
The organ has the following disposition:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, IV / I, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
Technical specifications
- Slider drawer
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Action :
- Tone action: double action
- Stop action: electric
Choir organ
In 2006 a smaller choir organ was built on a side gallery. This has two manuals with a pedal and 32 stops. The prospectus has a modern design.
Disposition
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Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
Technical specifications
- Slider drawer
- Action:
- Tone action: double action
- Stop action: electric
Connections and technical possibilities
Both organs are connected to one another by control lines and can be played from both gaming tables. When two organists play together, they are connected by a headset, monitor and cameras and can communicate with each other. Both organs have PC connections through which the music can be recorded and saved.
Web links
- Artyom Khachaturov plays Youtube, 2018
- Artjom Chatschaturow plays Toccata in D minor by JS Bach Youtube 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rimantas Gučas : The organ building tradition Königsberg-Lithuania. In: Acta Organologica . Volume 30. 2008. pp. 35-66, here p. 35
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca : History of organ building art in East and West Prussia . Volume 1. Weidlich, Würzburg 1984. pp. 26, 70f.
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca: History of organ building art in East and West Prussia . Volume 1. Weidlich, Würzburg 1984. p. 40
- ^ Walter Eschenbach : The new organ in the cathedral and cathedral church in Königsberg i.Pr., built by P. Furtwängler & Hammer, Hanover . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1928.
- ^ Hermann Fischer , Jan Janca : The former Mosengel organ in the Königsberg cathedral. In: Ars Organi . Volume 50, 2002. pp. 70-75.
- ^ Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
- ^ Walter Eschenbach: The new organ in the cathedral and cathedral church in Königsberg i.Pr., built by P. Furtwängler & Hammer, Hanover . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1928.
- ↑ The big cathedral organ is ready Kaliningrad currently from January 15, 2008.
- ^ Heinz Hohmeister : Inauguration of the organ in the cathedral in Königsberg / Kaliningrad . Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 71 (2008) p. 80.
- ^ Organ project in Königsberg Cathedral / Kaliningrad (Vogtland organ builder Thomas Wolf)
- ↑ Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding , M. Schuke: Schuke organ in the "Königsberg Cathedral" based on the model of the Mosengel organ from 1721. In: Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 71 (2008), pp. 39–42.
- ↑ Disposition of the choir organ
- ↑ The big cathedral organ is ready Kaliningrad currently from January 15, 2008