The church of Harkstede houses two organs: a reconstructed Schnitger organ from 1696 and the Eertman organ from 1908. The reconstruction of the Schnitger organ was inaugurated on 15 October 2025. James L. Wallmann wrote the article below about this unique instrument...
On 11 April 2025, a new organ was inaugurated in the Dutch Reformed Koepelkerk in Renswoude. It is a remarkable instrument, not least because it is the first opus of the organ building firms Mense Ruiter Orgelmakers of Ten Post and Van Rossum Orgelbouw of Wijk en...
The cathedral of Auch houses one of the finest organ cases in France, made for the organ built by Jean de Joyeuse. The organ stands on a gallery designed and constructed in 1689 by three architects: Barthélemy Duran, his son Pierre, and Barthélemy Biamouret. The...
The connection between North German organ music and the organs of Arp Schnitger may now seem self-evident. A closer look at the careers of the great North German masters – Heinrich Scheidemann, Jacob Prätorius Jr., Matthias Weckmann, Johann Adam Reincken, and...
In this article, Rogér van Dijk examines the life and work of the organ builder Hendricus Dominicus Lindsen (1794–1860), a now relatively little-known representative of nineteenth-century Dutch organ building. Drawing on archival sources and surviving instruments, he...
Mende, the capital of the département of Lozère, possesses a Romanesque cathedral that serves as the episcopal church of the Diocese of Mende, dating from the fourteenth century. The church is dedicated to Saint Privat, the first to preach the Gospel in the Gévaudan...
One could hardly invent it: a typically Roman Catholic instrument is built for a markedly Protestant province. It subsequently ends up in a Protestant church situated in an emphatically Roman Catholic environment. Finally, it returns to the Protestant province, but is...
Le Puy-en-Velay is one of the most remarkable towns in the Auvergne. It was an important pilgrimage centre on the route to Santiago de Compostela and was frequently visited by pilgrims. The cathedral dates from the eleventh century and has been subject to continuous...
The article describes the history and recent restoration of the house organ in the southern chapel of the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen. In 1988, national adviser Onno Wiersma identified the instrument as a work of the Leiden organ builder Pieter Assendelft (1714–1766). The...
A review of Ton van Eck’s book about the Willibrordus organ, subtitled ‘From Despised Instrument to National Monument’. The organ was built in 1923 for the St. Willibrordus Church in Amsterdam and moved to Haarlem in 1971. The article discusses its complex...
This article traces the history of the Timpe organ, which, after a period of relocation and decay, eventually found its home in Sint-Martinuskerk in Halsteren. Dirk Bakker, who served as organ advisor during the recent restoration, describes how the instrument...
Many readers will have a clear idea of what a French Baroque organ is like. Terms such as Plein jeu, Tierce en taille and Basse de Trompette instantly evoke a particular sound world. Similarly, the North German Baroque organ is firmly embedded in the collective memory...
Though Emanuel Fredrick van Montfoort may be unfamiliar to many—having built just one church organ and two positive organs, plus an extension to a positive in IJsselstein—his story is worth telling. This article explores not only his organ-building work but also his...
Though organ builder Antonius Kuerten of Huissen left behind little more than half an organ case, a wind chest, and some pipe work, his legacy in the Betuwe region was significant. Between 1830 and 1850, he constructed a dozen organs throughout the area and performed...
Since 1970, Utrecht Cathedral has housed the cabinet organ built by Gideon Thomas Bätz in 1796. Much about the instrument’s history remains uncertain. This article suggests that the organ originally stood in a house on the Kromme Nieuwegracht in Utrecht, owned by the...
Dirk Andries Flentrop and his workers performed a remarkable feat in 1953-6: the reconstruction and restoration of the Schnitger organ in the Grote of St.-Michaëlskerk in Zwolle. The approach to this project was in sharp contrast with the way in which in 1938 a...
Few post-war organs had as great a reputation as the organ that Marcussen made for the Nicolaïkerk in Utrecht in 1957. The result is that when you hunt for 3-manual tracker-action organs from the 50s, you’re led repeatedly to that organ. But already five years...
Recently an organ maquette made by the 19th-century organ builder H.E. Freytag was discovered. This rare object is discussed in this article. Starting from the question of how organ builders presented their instruments, the object is then placed in a broader...
For decades the Hinsz organ in Leens has lured Dutch and foreign adherents of North-German baroque organs to the province of Groningen. Since the restoration of this instrument in 1968 there have been more than a thousand concerts given, with a total of nearly 80,000...
