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Joost Langeveld Six theses on the future of Dutch organ cultureHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 1, 5-7 [summary] Thesis 1 Dutch organ culture is doing well: there are many impressive organs, many recitals and good magazines. Thesis 2 Dutch organ culture is doing not so well:...21/01/2011 | Common
Kees Weggelaar The organ composer Maurice van ElvenHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 39-42 [summary] Maurice van Elven (1950) composes organ music regularly. He studied organ with Piet Kee and Jan Raas and composition with Robert Heppener. Van Elven teaches at the Muziek...21/01/2011 | Common
Marcel Verheggen The new Verschueren organ in Averbode AbbeyHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 13-19 [summary] The turbulent history of Averbode Abbey (Belgium) began in 1135. After a devastating fire in 1942, rebuilding was begun in 1969.In 1866, Hyppolyte Loret built a...21/01/2011 | Common
Victor Timmer Organs in Catholic churches in Groningen and Drenthe (the northern Netherlands) around 1850 (part V) Het ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 20-26 [summary] The Catholic Church manifested itself ever more strongly after the restoration of the episcopal hierarchy in...21/01/2011 | Common
Christine Kamp (Organ) culture in RumaniaHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 5-12 [summary] Rumania shows in many respects that it was a communist country not long ago. One of these respects is the organ culture. As I prepared to make recordings of the Sauer organ in the...21/01/2011 | Common
Wannes van der Hoeven Petrus Stevens-Vermeersch: a Flemish organ builder in the periphery of romanticismHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 27-31 [summary] In 1822, Theodoor Smet (1782-1853) established an organ building firm at Duffel, a small town in the neighbourhood of...21/01/2011 | Common
Jan R. Luth The organ as an iconographical and allegorical phenomenonHet ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 2, 32-38 [summary] Whereas the Calvinist point of view is that instrumental music only tickles the ear, the Lutheran tradition never rejected the use of instruments in...21/01/2011 | Common
Hans Fidom Organ in the Der Aa-Kerk at Groningen discussed once again Het ORGEL 99 (2003), nr. 1, 13-16 [summary] The preliminaries of the restoration of the famous organ in the Der Aa-Kerk at Groningen, originally built by Arp Schnitger in 1702, have made...