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The Organ as A Mirror of Its Time

Kerala J. Snyder

Abstract

Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft, and science of its day, the organ, more than any other instrument, continues to reflect the spirit of the age in which it was built. This book considers the instrument's historical and cultural significance, and reflects the efforts of twenty scholars of the organ. The book chronicles the history of six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, at least one specimen for every century from 1600 to the present. By considering their original contexts and their histories since they were built, as ... More

Keywords: the organ, instrument, spirit of the age, historical, cultural significance, repertoire

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2002 Print ISBN-13: 9780195144154
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195144154.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kerala J. Snyder, editor
Göteborg Organ Art Center

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Contributors

Illustrations

CD Contents

1 Organs As Historical And Aesthetic Mirrors

Kerala J. Snyder

Part I Court And City

2 Exordium: Organs By Compenius (1610) and Schnitger (1693)

Kerala J. Snyder

3 Ducal Courts and Hanseatic Cities: Political and Historical Perspectives

Gisela Jaacks

4 The Genesis and Radiance of a Court Organ

Harald Vogel

5 Hamburg Organists in Lutheran Worship

William Porter

The Organ in Seventeenth-Century Cosmology

Hans Davidsson

7 An Ideal Organ and Its Experts Across the Seventeenth Centuy

David Yearsley

Part II A Large European Organ in a Small Factory Town

8 Exordium: The Cahman Organ at Leufsta Bruk (1728)

Kerala J. Snyder

9 An Architectural Tour of Leufsta Bruk

GÖRAN SÖDERSTRÖM

10 The Cahman Tradition and Its German Roots

Axel UnnerbÄck

11 From Cathedral to Rural Parish: Organs and Organists in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Eva Helenius-Öberg And Pamela Ruiter-feenstra

12 Bach Comes Late to Leufsta Bruk: An Oral History

GÖranBlomberg

13 The Musical Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Germany

Celia Applegate

Part III A French Organ in Copenhagen

14 Exordium: The CavaillÉ-coll Organ in The Jesus Church, Copenhagen (1890)

Kerala J. Snyder

15 From Beer to Bricks to Organ Pipes: Carl Jacobsen and the Jesus Church

Sverker Jullander

16 Technology and The Organ in the Nineteenth Century

BArbara Owen

17 Aristide CavaillÉ-coll: Master of Masters

Jesse E. Eschbach and Lawrence Archbold

18 Welker and CavillÉ-coll: A Frano-German Competition

Paul Peeters

19 On the Organ Problem [As Seen in 1930]

FritzHeitmann

Part IV Revival and Renewal

20 Exordium: The Marcussen Organ in Oscar's Church, Stockholm (1949)

Kerala J. Snyder

21 The Organs in Oscar's Church: Sources of Inspiration and Some Controversy

Bengt Hambraeus

22 The Taciturn Charisma of Alf Linder

Kimberly Marshall

23 From Darmstadt To Stockholm! Tracing the Swedish Contribution to the Development of a New Organ Style

Martin HerchenrÖder

24 The Organ as Scrying Glass: Images From the Organ Reform Movement

Joel Speerstra

25 A New Organ For a New Millennium

Kerala J. Snyder

End Matter

Bibliography

Discography

Index