Organ Park

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The former "Parkkerk", today the "Orgelpark" concert hall

The Orgelpark is an international concert and cultural center in Amsterdam . It was founded in 2007 and has been housed in the former Parkkerk of Amsterdam ever since. The organ is to be integrated into today's musical life and connected to other art forms in new ways .

history

The Parkkerk was built from 1916 to 1918 according to plans by EAC Roest at the Vondelpark and restored in 2005. The Orgelpark Art Center was founded in 2007 and initially had three organs. Funding is secured by the Utopa Foundation.

Instruments

"Van Straten Organ"

When it was founded, the church's original organ ( Sauer ) from 1922, a salon organ (Molzer) from 1925 and a Van Leeuwen organ from 1954 were installed. The latter was given away to a Polish music school in 2017. In its place, the Utopa baroque organ (see below) was built by a consortium of various project partners by 2018 .

Since 2009 there has been a large organ from the company Verschueren from Heythausen in the French-symphonic style of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll with three manuals and 41 registers on the gallery opposite the Sauer organ.

In 2012 the Orgelmakerij Reil made a reconstruction of the oldest still existing organ in the Netherlands with two block works , a historical keyboard range (H 1 –f 2 ) and a mid-tone tuning ("Van Straten organ"). The starting point was the remains of an organ that Peter Gerritsz built in 1479 for the Utrecht Nicolaïkerk and which have been preserved in the Middelburg Abbey . The first reconstruction of a medieval block organ has attracted international attention.

In addition to a barrel organ (1924) and a chest organ (2006) , the organ park also includes two grand pianos (1899, 2002) and a Mustel pressure wind harmonium (19th century).

Utopa baroque organ

The organ was planned on behalf of the Utopa Foundation from 2012 and built until 2018 as a joint project of the following partners:

  • Elbertse Orgelmakers, Soest (Netherlands): case, wind supply, wind chests, game and stop action mechanism, wooden pipework, digital console
  • Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen , Bautzen : Metallic pipework
  • Munetaka Yokota, Tokyo: intonation
  • Sinua GmbH, Düsseldorf: digital technology

On the one hand, it closely follows the organ building of Zacharias Hildebrandt , but on the other hand, thanks to digital technology, it is also suitable for contemporary music. The role models are:

  • Disposition: Hettstedt , St. Jakobi (1749) and Dresden , Dreikönigskirche (1757)
  • Sound: Naumburg , St. Wenzel (1746)
  • brochure
  • Game table including stops: Naumburg, St. Wenzel (1746).
  • Register names: According to the draft contract for organ building in Naumburg from August 27, 1743 (in the Naumburg City Archives)

Disposition

I Hoofdwerk (I. Onderklavier ) C – d 3
(mechanical); C – a 3 (digital)
Burdun 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Pipe flute 8th'
Quintadehn 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Far whistle 2 ′
Sexquint altra II
Mixture V
Cymbel III
Cornett IV
bassoon 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Bovenwerk (II. Bovenklavier ) C – d 3
(mechanical); C – a 3 (digital)
Dumped 8th'
Violdigamba 8th'
Unda maris 8th'
Pipe flute 4 ′
Principal 4 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Sifflött 1'
Sharp IV
Vox humana 8th'
Beat
Pedal ( Pedaal ) C – d 1
(mechanical); C – g 1 (digital)
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Quint bass 12 ′
Octav 8th'
trombone 16 ′
trombone 8th'
Clarin 4 ′
  • Coupling : manual coupler (sliding coupler), pedal coupler (mechanical)
  • Subsidiary register :
    • nightingale
    • Cymbelstern. Tonal Design: Ibo Ortgies : 8 bells, tuned to b 4 , a 4 , c 5 , h 4 , gis 4 , cis 5 , g 4 , d 5 ). The speed of the cymbal star is digitally adjustable.
  • Playing aids : Composition system for the digitally playable organ

Technical specifications

  • II / P 33
  • Wind supply :
    • Four wedge bellows, bellows treadmill for max. two calcants , alternatively a fan
    • Wind pressure: 63 mm water column
  • Wind chest : Double spring chest (extendable). The dimensions of the chambers correspond to those of the chambers in Hildebrandt's grinding shop
  • Game tables :
    • Gaming table (mechanical)
    • Free-standing digital console (this also serves the Sauer organ and the "Busy Drone")
  • Action :
    • Sound system: solenoid valves controlled mechanically / by the digital console. These can be set individually with regard to the approach and arrangement of the pipes.
    • Stop action: electric, with a set system on the mechanical and digital console
  • Mood :
    • Tuning pitch: Standard pitch a 1 = 415.3 Hz (on the digital console, the pitch can be transposed to any note)
    • Temperature: Well-tempered, designed by Ibo Ortgies.
      The temperature is set up in such a way that it enables interaction with the equally tempered Sauer organ in the same room - the maximum beat difference of approximately the same pitches in the two organs is 1 Hz in the single octave. All D and G sharp of the Utopa baroque organ correspond to the notes C sharp and G of the Sauer organ.
      • Four narrowed fifths of 697.3 cents each, tempered by 1/5 Pythagorean commas : C – G – D – A – E
      • Two fifths of 699.6 cents each, tempered by 1/10 Pythagorean commas: BF and B-F sharp
Thirds and fifths above c G d a e H f sharp cis / des g sharp / as it / dis b f
Fifth (cent)
fraction pyth. K. 		697.3
- 1 ⁄ 5 		697.3
- 1 ⁄ 5 		697.3
- 1 ⁄ 5 		697.3
- 1 ⁄ 5 		702
0 		699.6
- 1 ⁄ 10 		702
0 		702
0 		702
0 		702
0 		699.6
- 1 ⁄ 10 		702
0
Major third (cent) 389.1 393.7 396.1 400.8 405.5 405.5 407.8 405.5 405.5 400.8 396.1 393.7
Minor third (cent) 296.5 301.2 303.5 308.2 308.2 303.5 301.2 296.5 296.5 294.1 294.1 296.5

Web links

Commons : Parkkerk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hans Fidom (Ed.): Orgelpark Research Reports. Vol. 5/2. Organ park; Amsterdam 2018. online (ePub: 16.2 MB) [About the Utopa Baroque Organ ].
  • Hans Fidom (Ed.): Timbres. Issue 23. Orgelpark, Amsterdam 2018 ( online ) [About the Utopa Barockorgel: pp. 10–21 u. 68-69].
  • Hans Fidom (Ed.): Orgelpark Research Reports. Vol. 5/1. 2nd Edition. Organ park; Amsterdam 2017 (1st edition 2014). online (ePub: 16.2 MB) [To plan the Utopa baroque organ].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After the foundation Orgelpark operated Foundation Utopa (Leiden, needles.)
  2. ↑ Verschueren organ
  3. ↑ Roland Eberlein : The reconstruction of an organ from 1479 in Amsterdam , accessed on May 24, 2015 (PDF file; 136 kB).
  4. ↑ The specification concerns the sounding notes, not the pitch of the foot.
  5. ↑ Specification of the reduction by the respective fraction of the Pythagorean comma

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '35.4 "  N , 4 ° 52' 5.8"  E