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  het ORGEL 2010/04
Robert Jan August Robert Schumann’s BACH-fugues
Sietze de Vries Restoration of the organs in Zandeweer & Zuidbroek
Léon Berben Ornamenting in the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach

 

  het ORGEL Previously published summaries
Christian Ahrens and Jonas Braasch  Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein: inventor of the organ stops with free reeds
Aad Alblas  The Genevan Psalter in its time
 Second Symposium on Calvin's Psalter
Robert Jan August Robert Schumann’s BACH-fugues
Pieter Bakker  Musica mathematica
 New developments connected with the organ festival VOOR DE WIND
 Key Characteristics
Wolfgang Baumgratz  Albert de Klerk: Organ Works
Hans Beek  The ‘Husumer Orgelbuch’ of 1758
How fast should we play 17th and 18th century music?
Sketch of Dieterich Buxtehude’s (musical) daily life
Organ culture is benefited by research in archives
Michael Belotti The earliest sources of Buxtehude’s organ music
Léon Berben Sweelinck’s keyboard works: were they perhaps played on clavichords?
Ornamenting in the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach
Aart Bergwerff The Organ and world music – les extrêmes se touchent
Berry van Berkum  Saxophonist Gijs Hendriks and the organ
Jos Beijer  The organworks of Ton Bruynèl
Geert Bierling  A plea for rehabilitation of playing of 'transcriptions'
Jan Böcker  Gerard Bunk (1888-1958)
Joachim Bollen  Lefébure-Wely, a composer of decadent organ music?
Richard Bot The organ in the Roman Catholic liturgy since the Second Vatican Council
Christian Ahrens and Jonas Braasch  Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein: inventor of the organ stops with free reeds
Jaap Brouwer  The Hill organ in the Pieterskerk at Leiden
Hermann J. Busch Organ music – The panorama of 1938. (Lecture at the symposium ‘Pro Organo Pleno’ - 13 June, 2008)
Antonio Caporaso Giovanni Salvatore - a contemporary of Frescobaldi
Willem Jan Cevaal  The music publisher Ars Nova
Albert Clement Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the chorale (1)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the chorale (2)
Gemma Coebergh  Charles Matthews wins Franck Contest
 Guus Janssen: Pruledium and Momba
Wim Diepenhorst  The Van Covelens organ in the St.-Laurenskerk at Alkmaar
 The Verschueren organ at Roggel
 The organ in the Hervormde Kerk at Sassenheim
Bert van Dijk Wire for organ actions since the 19th century
Peter van Dijk  Sweelinck Symposium 1999
 The Van Hagerbeer organ in the Pieterskerk at Leiden
 Orgelcultuur in Stralsund en Tallinn
 Organ building after 2000 (V)
 Bach in the Netherlands around 1900
 The electronic organ in the Boogkerk in Amersfoort
 60th anniversary of Gebr. van Vulpen Organ builders
   The König/Verschueren organ in the Paterskirche at Kempen (Germany)
 Kristian Wegscheider restores Friese organ at Zettemin
 Gaston Kern and the Silbermann organ at Ebersmunster
 The organ of the Dom in Innsbruck (A)
 Flentrop revisited
 The organ builders Gebr. Reil
 Johann Heinrich Mundt and the organ in the Church of the Virgin Mary before the Tyn at Prague
 The Arp Schnitger organ in the Jacobikerk at Uithuizen
 The organ in the Reformed Church at Mijdrecht
 The organ in the Magnuskerk at Anloo
 Recent organological papers
 Two new practice organs
 The Garrels organ in the Oud-Katholieke Kerk at Den Haag
 The restoration of the Organ in the Der Aa-Kerk, Groningen
 Discussion about organ Der Aa-kerk Groningen continued 
 Dutch organ culture between 1965 and 1970
 Cornet and Sweelinck: new evidence on their keyboard music
The organs of the St.-Jan parish at Laren
Estonia: a dynamic organ culture
The significance of the organ building firm Van Oeckelen according to HET ORGEL
Van der Putten organs at Bremen and Aurich
 The liturgical function of Buxtehude’s organ works
The organ in Overlangbroek and the organmaker Albertus van Os
Rogér van Dijk  The Van Covelens organ in the St.-Laurenskerk at Alkmaar
 The Verschueren organ at Roggel
 The organ in the Hervormde Kerk at Sassenheim
 The Mense Ruiter organ in the Reformed Church at Enter
 The organ builder Albert de Graaf
New organs from organ builder Steendam
The organs at Kedichem, Heelsum and Apeldoorn
Organ Building Firm Bakker & Timmenga celebrates 125th anniversary
Het Knipscheer-orgel of the Noorderkerk at Amsterdam
Het Müller-orgel of the Kapelkerk at Alkmaar
The Cavaillé-Coll organ in the “Philharmonie” in Haarlem
Three organ restorations by the firm Gebr. Van Vulpen
A full and harmonious sound (Restorations by the firm of Adema)
The Seventy-fifth anniversray of ‘Mense Ruiter Orgelmakers’
The organ builders Kaat & Tijhuis – recent work
Two Smits organs: history and restoration
The Buchholz organ in St.-Nikolai in Stralsund

Hugo Distler and ‘his’ organs
J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw is forty years old
Van Dijk & Van Dijk
 The new organ in 'De Oerdracht' in Joure
 The organ builders Witte
 The new organ in the Noorderkerk in Spakenburg
 New organs at Gouda and at Soest
Pieter Dirksen  The Authorship of the Prelude and Fugue in f minor ( BWV 534)
 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s organ and harpsichord music
 Bach's partita 'Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen'
 An unknown painting of Sweelinck's organ
Fingering in 17th-century keyboard music (Scheidemann)
Roland Eberlein Imagine: the organ plays but nobody comes to listen
Ton van Eck  The manuscript of César Franck's Final op. 21
Two opus lists of the organ building firm Dekker
Charles-Marie Philbert and the Adema organ in the St.-Jacobsgesticht in Amsterdam
Smaller instruments by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in The Netherlands
Janno den Engelsman  Two congresses on organ building
Wim Eradus  Understanding organ sound better through scientific research
Friedrich Ladegast: pioneer of ‘the modern organ’
Jean-Pierre Felix  Belgium: organ building after the French Revolution
Jean Ferrard Organ instruction in Brussels in the 19th century
Hans Fidom & Martin Rost The restoration of the Sauer organ at Bremen cathedral
Hans Fidom  IAOD-congres in Gotenburg
 Historicism in the 21st century
 The new organ in the Bovenkerk in Kampen
 Electronics and organ art
 Dutch Organ Façades in the first half of the 20th century
 Casting organ metal on sand
 Dutch organ building in the early 20th century: German backgrounds
 The ‘artistically inherent motivation’ of organ music (discussion)
 Interview with organ consultant dr. h.c. Cor H. Edskes: 'I strive for "objectified subjectivity" '
 Does history repeat itself? On the importance of early 20th century organs
 Organ in the Der Aa-Kerk at Groningen discussed once again
 A new medieval organ
 Organ building after 2000 (II)
 ‘Can I pump?!’ Utopa’s organ course
Musicus index legum! Interview with Piet Kee
Organ sound and organ philosophy: the world of Bernhardt Edskes
 Colloquium: ‘The organ between yesterday and tomorrow’
The secret of organ festival Toulouse-les-Orgues
‘CDs are always just surrogates’ / Interview with Erik Sikkema
Improvising should be a second nature to organists, says Henco de Berg
An essay on the quality of organ culture in The Netherlands
From Willem-Hendrik Zwart to world music: a different perspective on church organ playing
The Orgelpark focuses on improvisation
Organ music – The panorama of 2008. (Lecture at the symposium ‘Pro Organo Pleno’ - 13 June, 2008)
Anthony Fiumara  The composer Fons Brouwer
Stefan Gruschka  Colloquium: ‘The organ between yesterday and tomorrow’
Lex Gunnink The organ music of Jaap Dragt
International Composition Contest at Kampen
Jan Hage  Jets d'Orgue - Jan Vriend
The organ works of Petr Eben evaluated
Organ music in Nazi Germany
Olivier Messiaen and surrealism
The organ Works of Wim de Ruiter
Tjibbe Heidinga  Organ building after 2000 (III)
Joris De Henau  Storm in the St Niklaaskerk at Gent in 1856
Jaap den Hertog Jan Adam Reincken and his garden of music
Klaas Hoek  Trivento and other organ-like instruments
 New chances for organists
 Recently published new organ music
Kees Hoeksma  The new Regulation for church musicians
Wannes van der Hoeven  Petrus Stevens-Vermeersch: a Flemish organ builder in the periphery of romanticism
Kees Huges  Herman van Vliet’s credo
 Matthijs Koene: ‘We owe respect to the panpipe !’
 Interview with composer Saskia Macris
 Organ music and psychiatry
Christa Hijink  The Göteborg International Organ Academy 2000
 The National Monument Service and organs
The Dutch National Heritage Service: an interview
Hans Jansen  Ernst Pepping (1901-1981) and the church hymn
Fans Jespers  The organs of Pereboom & Leyser
Jan Jongepier  The organ in the Hervormde Kerk at Duurswoude
 The organ in the Grote Kerk, Enschede
 The organ in the Hervormde Kerk, Ilpendam
 The organ in the Hervormde Kerk, Driesum
 The Maarschalkerweerd organ in the St.-Martinuskerk
 Over Five ages organ history in the Martinikerk at Franeker
 Organ consultancy: changing perspectives
 In memoriam Dirk Andries Flentrop
Christine Kamp  (Organ) culture in Rumania
Joop A. Klaassen  Organ building after 2000 (IV)
Wolf Kalipp  Johann Patroclus Möller
Jan Pieter Karman  The Flentrop organ in the Grote Kerk at Doetinchem
Herman de Kler  The history of organ music and the accompaniment of congregational singing
  Amsterdam, 1932: bank employee appointed cathedral organist
Jean-Baptiste de Pauw (1852-1924)
Wim Kloppenburg  The report of the Commission 'HBO-Kerkmuziek'
KNOV  Continuing discussion concerning the organ in the Aa-kerk in Groningen
Jan Piet Knijff  Fish, chips and organs (interview with three young organists)
 Organ building after 2000 (IV)
 An interview with Gustav Leonhardt
 Modern American organ culture: an impression
 Bert Matter retires after 33 years in Zutphen
 A Round table discussion with four retired conservatory teachers
 A new choir organ in the Bovenkerk at Kampen
 The organfront according... [seven interviews]
   A Simple Oneness. Interview with D.A. Flentrop
The Tannenberg organ at Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Henk Kooiker  Loudspeakers and organ music
 New developments connected with the organ festival VOOR DE WIND
Barker levers: technical aspects
Ewald Kooiman  How did Mendelssohn play the organ?
 The historic organ and improvisation
 Recent organ tutors by Laukvik, Ritchie and Stauffer
Fingering and pedalling in 19th-century organ music
Corrie de Kool The former organ at Manor Ter Horst
Gyula Kormos Historical organs in Lutheran Churches in Hungary
Aart de Kort Recent new organs, part 2: The Adema organ in Scherpenzeel
Recent new organs - part 3: the Verschueren organ in the Orgelpark in Amsterdam
Wim van Kraanen  Sound reproducing equipment and organ music
Pavel N. Kravchun The history of the organ in Russia
Wout van Kuilenburg Beyond the borders: organs, organ makers and organ cases; view from Boxmeer
Joost Langeveld  Six theses on the future of Dutch organ culture
Use and ‘disuse’ the organ in the future
Jos Laus  A noteworthy organ for the Hofkerk in Bergeijk
Robin A. Leaver Martin Luther and the organ
Jacob Lekkerkerker  The ‘artistically inherent motivation’ of organ music (discussion, part 2)
Looking for perspective in the Noorderkerk at Amsterdam
Christo Lelie  Festival Voor de Wind [i.e. Festival Flying High]: starting shot
Festival VOOR DE WIND in Amsterdam
Johann Th. Lemckert Adriaan Engels (1906–2003)
Messiaen’s early organ works (1928-1950): performance aspects, with particular reference to Gaston Litaize
Michel Lemmens & Prosper Sevestre  European Organ Symposium, Brussel 1997
Michel Lemmens  Arnold Clerinx (1816-1898)
G.J. Lepoeter The first organs in protestant village churches on Zuid-Beveland (Zeeland)
Kurt Lueders  Bach in France around 1900
Jan R. Luth  German influences on Dutch church music after 1800
 Why do we sing at a lower pitch?
 The organ as an iconographical and allegorical phenomenon
 Organ playing in Arp Schnitger's time
 The organ and congregational singing in the early 17th century
 Did Buxtehude's Magnificat primi toni have a liturgical function?
   German Choral Books from the 19th century
Accompaniment of congregational singing in the 19th century
Calvin, Calvinists, and the organ
Johan Luijmes  Festival Voor de Wind [i.e. Festival Flying High]: starting shot
Dirk Luijmes  New music for the psalm pump
Paul De Maeyer  How to learn to improvise?
Wietse Meinardi  Organ building after 2000
 Organ building after 2000 (V)
Ben Mensing  Organ builder Hendrik Haffmans
Jozef Mertens & Michel Lemmens  The organ builder König and the organ at Alden Biesen
Martin Moree German Chorale-Preludes from the decades around 1900
Willem Vogel: more than a hymn composer
Church organs in Communist East Germany
Eddy Mul  Buxtehude's Passacaglia in d: liturgical music?
 The ‘Defect’ of Werckmeister
 Johannes Kepler and his influence on organ music
   Two congresses on organ building
Bach’s ‘Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth’ – Expression of a divine mystery?
Hans van Nieuwkoop  Slurs and tempo indications in Mendelssohn's organ music
Ibo Ortgies  Split keys on historical organs between 1468 and 1721
 Vallotti in the Province of Groningen: On restoring temperaments
The next Buxtehude year in 2037 or 2038 (Thoughts concerning a problem in Buxtehude research)
Ibo Ortgies and Frank van Wijk  Pure harmony’ at Alkmaar / Tuning and temperament in The Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries
Peter Ouwerkerk  New teaching material for organists
 Two new organworks
 Paul Hindemith and the organ
   The improvisation contest 2003 at Zwolle
“Composing is the spice of my life” - A chat with Jan Welmers
The invisible organist. The Sweelinck-Muller award, 7 November, 2009
Guido Persoons  Cornet and Sweelinck: new evidence on their keyboard music
Tjeerd van der Ploeg  The organ works of Charles Tournemire
 Charles Tournemire and L'Orgue Mystique
Cees van der Poel New organs from organ builder Steendam
The organs at Kedichem, Heelsum and Apeldoorn
Organ Building Firm Bakker & Timmenga celebrates 125th anniversary
Het Knipscheer-orgel of the Noorderkerk at Amsterdam
Het Müller-orgel of the Kapelkerk at Alkmaar
The Cavaillé-Coll organ in the “Philharmonie” in Haarlem
Three organ restorations by the firm Gebr. Van Vulpen
A full and harmonious sound (Restorations by the firm of Adema)
Vicissitudes of three restored Robustelly organs, part 1
Vicissitudes of three restored Robustelly organs, part 2
The Seventy-fifth anniversray of ‘Mense Ruiter Orgelmakers’
The organ builders Kaat & Tijhuis – recent work
Two Smits organs: history and restoration
J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw is forty years old
Hugo Distler and ‘his’ organs
Three restorations by Pels & Van Leeuwen
Recent new organs, part 2: The Adema organ in Scherpenzeel
Recent new organs - part 3: the Verschueren organ in the Orgelpark in Amsterdam
Wijnand van de Pol  Italian organ building since 1960 –
 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Gerard Quaedvlieg  The organ from the former Predikherenkerk at Maastricht
Jan Raas A life marked by the fear of life – Hugo Distler (1908-1942): a biographical sketch
The organ works of Hugo Distler
Organ spring in Moscow
Wim S. Ros  Thoughts on Bach's Orgel-Büchlein
Martin Rost & Hans Fidom The restoration of the Sauer organ at Bremen cathedral
Matthias Schneider Stylus phantasticus and Buxtehude’s organ music
Albert van der Schoot  Johann Sebastian Bach and many, many figures
Harald Schützeichel  Albert Schweitzer’s perception of Bach
Andreas Sieling  How did Mendelssohn play Bach?
 Berlin: ‘Capital of Bach’
Jan Smelik  Relations between liturgical and non-liturgical singing in the Netherlands around 1900
 The new Evangelical Hymnal
  Bach interpretation according to HET ORGEL, established in 1886
Whaddya mean ‘King of Instruments’? A Symposium on the future of Dutch Organ Culture
Bibliography of Ewald Kooiman’s writings
Albert van der Schoot  Johann Sebastian Bach and many, many figures
 Who invented the Golden Section?
Prosper Sevestre & Michel Lemmens  European Organ Symposium, Brussel 1997
Piet van der Steen  Rhythm in Messiaen's organ works
Jacob Bijster and his organ music
Sicco Steendam  Organ building after 2000 (II)
Piet van der Steen Joep Straesser and his organ works
Jaap Jan Steensma Link between Scherer and Schnitger. The Stellwagen-organ in the Marienkirche of Stralsund restored
Händel, Haydn, and the barrel organs
Jean-Pierre Steijvers  The history of the organ in Russia
Sarah Stiles  New developments connected with the organ festival VOOR DE WIND
Marieke Stoel Paul Barras and his organ compositions
Ronald Stolk  Modern American organ culture: an impression
Music in wax and gold. The organ universe of Jean-Louis Florentz
Rudi van Straten In memoriam Onno Wiersma
Willem Tanke New directions in organ art
New approaches to improvisation and composition
Stephen Taylor  I hate music! But I like to sing...
 Into the future with Distler
 The organ at the Nicolaïkerk at Utrecht
John Terwal  Ansgar Wallenhorst wins international improvisation competition
 Haarlem 2002: just one round
Victor Timmer  Catholic organs in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (I)
 Catholic organs in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (II)
 Catholic organs in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (III)
 Catholic organs in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (IV)
 Catholic organs in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (V)
   Belgium: Contributions to organ history in Catholic churches in the Dutch province of Overijssel in the 19th century
Two opus lists of the organ building firm Dekker
An unknown activity of Charles-Marie Philbert
Charles-Marie Philbert and the Adema organ in the St.-Jacobsgesticht in Amsterdam
Verheijen and Philbert, a meeting with consequences (part 1)
Verheijen and Philbert, a meeting with consequences (two parts)
Smaller instruments by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in The Netherlands
Nicholas Thistlethwaite  The English Cathedral Organ in the 20th Century
Harmen Trimp Sweelinck’s faith tested. Speculation about the religious beliefs of the ‘Orpheus of Amsterdam’
Stef Tuinstra  Schnitger, European organ builder in past and present
 Johann Adam Reincken's An Wasserflüssen Babylon as organ oratorio
Fred Unlandt Children and the organ. The “Bavo weeks” project in Kesteren
Wannes Vanderhoeven  Two recent organ projects in Brussels / an impression
Jan Veldkamp ‘We just pull all the stops’
Joris Verdin  César Franck and the harmonium
 The organ: fit for expression?
 Discussions on César Franck
 Is Léon Boëllmann’s Heures Mystiques organ music?
 Liszt’s harmonium-piano
French symphonic organ music
Marcel Verheggen  The new Verschueren organ in Averbode Abbey
Henk Verhoef  The restoration of the Sauer organ in the St Nicolaaskerk at Amsterdam
The organ of the St. Martinuskerk at Westwoud
Bach organs in Ansbach and Dordrecht
Anton Vernooij The future of the organ
René Verwer The heyday of the Cavaillé-Coll-organ in the Amsterdam Industry Palace
Messiaen’s organ at Ste.-Trinité, Paris
Jean-Baptiste de Pauw (1852-1924)
Pierre Cochereau – on the 25th anniversary of his death
Auke Hendrik Vlagsma The former organ of the Reformed Church at Boerakker
A Renaissance organ at Dordrecht
Four organs in Dordrecht’s history
An organ from Amsterdam in Friedrichstad
Organs in the Baptist Church in Steenwijk
Three 4’ organs from the period 1680-1725
Markus Voigt Organ building and the ‘Orgelbewegung’ in the German Democratic Republic
Jan Marten de Vries New Listening
Sietze de Vries  Organ building after 2000 (III)
Recent new organs. Part 1: The Van Vulpen organ for the Dutch Reformed Congregation (Gereformeerde Gemeente) in Gouda & the Škrabl organ in the Westerkerk in Veenendaal
Restoration of the organs in Zandeweer & Zuidbroek
Cor van Wageningen  Max Reger's Chorale preludes
 Organ music between 1800 and 1825
Jan Dirk Wassenaar Hearing God’s footsteps. The protestant theologian Oepke Noordmans and the organ
Kees Weggelaar  The composer Tamara Ibragimowa
 The organ composer Maurice van Elven
  Composing for organ at Noorbeek
Unknown for no good reason: the music of Bernard Bartelink
Piet J. Groenendijk: the organ works
Daan Manneke: organ works
The organ works of Johann Th. Lemckert
Ten years after the death of Cor Kee (‘A musical giant’)
Bernard Winsemius  Sweelinck, his students, their works
Wim Winters  Organ building after 2000 (II)
Arie de Wit  Physical aspect of organ pipes
Henny Wullink Pastor J.H. Hulsken and his chorale book
Ibo Ortgies and Frank van Wijk  Pure harmony’ at Alkmaar / Tuning and temperament in The Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries
Erik Zwiep The ‘Göteborg International Organ Academy 2009’