The August issue opens with an article by Frans Jespers on the remarkable phenomenon of several nineteenth-century Brabant organ builders who were also organists. He examines the social, ecclesiastical and musical circumstances that encouraged this combination, and...
The May 2026 issue opens with a substantial article by Pieter van Dijk on Hamburg registrations and repertoire, with particular attention to the organ of St Katharinenkirche. Drawing on historical sources, he examines the Zink and Trompet 16′ registration and...
The February 2026 issue (volume 122, no. 1) opens with an article by Kees Weggelaar and Jan Smelik on the relationship of the composer and music critic Willem Pijper (1894–1947) to the organ. Although Pijper left no works for the instrument, biographical evidence and...
The November issue of Het Orgel opens with the conclusion of the two-part series on Petrus Veerkamp, the Frisian organ builder who made his career in France in the nineteenth century. In this concluding part, Victor Timmer and Ton van Eck examine Veerkamp’s...
The August issue explores two main themes: French organ culture and the future of organ culture in the Netherlands. Victor Timmer and Ton van Eck open with “Petrus Veerkamp, a Frisian organ builder in French service (1),” examining the life and career of...
The May 2025 issue opens with an article by Sietze de Vries about the organ in Peterhouse Chapel, Cambridge. The renovation of this organ, completed in 2023 by Flentrop and Klais, represents a compromise between historical reconstruction and modern, multi-functional...
Frans Jespers examines the life of organbuilder Antonius Kuerten from Huissen. Though Kuerten’s legacy consists of only half an organ case, a wind chest, and some pipework, he constructed approximately ten organs in the Betuwe region between 1830 and 1850. His story...
The latest issue of Volume 120 (2024) focuses on Austrian composers: Anton Bruckner, Franz Schmidt, and Augustine Franz Kopfreiter. Bruckner was born 200 years ago, while Schmidt was born 150 years ago. Dirk Luijmes writes about the role Johann Sebastian Bach’s...
The September 2024 issue opens with an article by Lourens Stuifbergen on the organ compositions of Jacob Bijster (1902–1958). He explores the defining characteristics of Bijster’s organ works, illuminating their unique qualities. In his column, Jos van der Kooy...
The November issue has as its theme the 1950s. It opens with an article on the Flentrop organ of 1952 in the Catharinakerk in Doetinchem. The author, Theo Jellema, served as consultant for the restoration of this instrument in 2014, and is thus thoroughly familiar...
The September issue opens with an article on organ models, in particular a recently discovered example made by H.E. Freytag. The article, by Victor Timmer, contains a contribution made by Bernhardt Edskes shortly before his death in 2022. Memorable listening...
The July issue opens with two articles on historical organ recordings. The Danish organist Lars Rosenlund Nørremark argues that one should take seriously the old recordings of Widor, Lemare, Reger, Gigout, Messiaen, et al. as a source for historically informed...
In 2019 the Kathedrale Domkerk in Basel existed for a thousand years. For this occasion Daan Manneke composed the Basler Psalmen, an organ work in 7 movements on Genevan psalm melodies. The Dutch première was in September 2021, in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam;...
The May issue of Het Orgel opens with the second article by Theo Jellema on the Friedrich Leichel organ in the Lambertuskerk in Arum. In this final part he discusses the recent restoration and gives a few comments as a player and listener. In the week that this issue...
In October 2021 Orgelmakerij Bakker & Timmenga completed the restoration of the Friedrich Leichel organ in the Lambertuskerk in Arum. Theo Jellema, consultant for this project, did (archival) research on the organ history of Arum. The result can be read in the...
The 118th volume opens with the second and last article of ‘Developments in the style of the organ builders Smits’. Frans Jespers describes how the generations of the Smits dynasty held to the style of Frans Smits I, drawing conclusions about their building style and...
The September, 2021, issue of Het ORGEL is dedicated for a large part to Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, who died 400 years ago. Sweelinck specialist Pieter Dirksen wrote a fascinating analytical article on the Ricercar a1 (SwWV 280). He shows among other things how this...
The July issue of Het ORGEL opens with the conclusion of the article ‘Orgel midden in de stad’ (Organ in the middle of the town), a 2-part article on the 50-year-old organ in the Rotterdam concert hall De Doelen. This part discusses how Keijzer organized series of...
The issue of May 2021 opens with the first part of an article by Iddo van der Giessen on the history of the Flentrop organ in de Doelen in Rotterdam. He discusses the history from a special point of view: the use of the instrument by the two organists Arie J. Keijzer...
