Solar organ
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| place | Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul (Görlitz) |
| Organ builder | Mathis organ building |
| Construction year | 1992-1997 |
| Last renovation / restoration | 2004 Mathis (extension) |
| epoch | 20th century |
| Organ landscape | Saxony |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Number of pipes | 6219 |
| Number of registers | 87 |
| Number of manuals | 4th |
| Number of 32 'registers | 2 |
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The sun organ in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Görlitz is a specialty. The prospectus from 1703 is provided with 17 suns with organ pipes. The present work was built in 1997 by Mathis Orgelbau .
Predecessor organs
Casparini organ from 1703
In 1691 the church of St. Peter and Paul was badly damaged by fire. Since 1697 Eugenio Casparini built a new organ with his son Adam Horatio . This had 57 registers on three manuals and pedal and was the largest in Silesia at that time. The prospectus by Johann Conrad Buchau was provided with 17 suns, behind which organ pipes of equal length were placed. Twelve of them each sound a tone of a twelve-fold pedal mix. The organ was inaugurated in 1703. In 1704 Christian Ludwig Boxberg wrote a detailed description of the instrument.
The organ attracted a lot of attention. In 1715, Tsar Peter I of Russia was so impressed by the instrument that he commissioned Boxberg to design a monstre orgue for St. Petersburg, which was never built. Johann Sebastian Bach , on the other hand, described it as a horse organ that was difficult to play in terms of horses. Even Johann Andreas Silbermann expressed his 1741 critical.
Some repairs have been made with no major changes. In 1894 the company Schlag & Söhne from Schweidnitz is said to have installed a new instrument while retaining some registers and the prospectus, but no actual evidence has been found in recent times.
Sauer organ from 1928
From 1926 to 1928 the W. Sauer company from Frankfurt (Oder) built a new instrument with 89 registers on four manuals and pedal, with an electro-pneumatic stop action. This was again the largest organ in Silesia. In 1979 the organ was expanded for the upcoming extensive renovation of the church. Only the historical prospectus remained and was restored.
Mathis organ from 1997
Since 1990 the construction of a new organ has been planned. The company Mathis Orgelbau from Switzerland received the order . The disposition should be based on the Casparini organ. It was designed by the organist Matthias Eisenberg . It included an additional swell, which should make playing 19th century music even better.
In 1997 the organ was inaugurated, initially with 64 stops on three manuals and pedal. In 2002 the pipes in the suns were restored by Mathis. In 2004 the company added 23 additional votes to the swell. Since then the organ has had 87 stops on four manuals and a pedal.
Disposition
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, IV / I, IV / II, IV / III, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P.
- Super octave coupling: III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / III
- Secondary register: cymbal star, nightingale, bird song, tamburo 16 ′, cuckoo, sun mixture (12-fold pedal mixture with tromba 8 ′)
- Playing aids : Tutti, storage, coupling aids, 1000-fold setter , crescendo rollerwith four combinations.
literature
- Günter Lade (Hrsg.): The sun organ of the Protestant parish church St. Peter and Paul zu Görlitz. Festschrift for the organ consecration. Goerlitz 1997.
Web links
- Solar organ
- Organ Edition drawer, with photos and CD information