Van der Putten organs at Bremen and Aurich by Peter van Dijk

Van der Putten organs at Bremen and Aurich by Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk Van der Putten organs at Bremen and AurichHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 2, 4-13 [summary] In 2002 the organ building firm of Van der Putten (Finsterwolde) completed a new organ in the Evangelische Kirche at Walle, a suburb of Bremen (Germany). It is built...
Piet J. Groenendijk: the organ works by Kees Weggelaar

Piet J. Groenendijk: the organ works by Kees Weggelaar

Kees Weggelaar Piet J. Groenendijk: the organ worksHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 5, 14-20 [summary] Piet J. Groenendijk (*1948) studied organ with Piet van den Kerkhoff, and, at the Rotterdam Conservatory, with Arie J. Keyzer. At the conservatory, he studied music theory...

A Renaissance organ at Dordrecht by Auke Hendrik Vlagsma

Auke Hendrik Vlagsma A Renaissance organ at DordrechtHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 5, 21-23 [summary] In his article on the convent of the Magdalena Sisters at Dordrecht, published in 1903, J.L. van Dalen mentions an organ in the Heilige Sacramentskapel at Dordrecht....

Willem Vogel: more than a hymn composer by Martin Moree

Martin Moree Willem Vogel: more than a hymn composerHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 6, xx-xx [summary] Willem Vogel is especially known for the large number of hymns he composed. But he wrote organ music as well, inspired, at first inspired by the Bätz organ in the Grote...
Jean-Baptiste de Pauw by René Verwer and Herman de Kler

Jean-Baptiste de Pauw by René Verwer and Herman de Kler

René Verwer and Herman de Kler Jean-Baptiste de PauwHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 4, 4-46 [summary] Organist and pedagogue Jean-Baptiste de Pauw (1852-1924) was born in Brussels to parents who were interested in art and music. After the music lessons from his father, De...

The future of the organ by Anton Vernooij

Anton Vernooij The future of the organHet ORGEL 101 (2005), nr. 1, 19-25 [summary] The assumed crisis in today’s organ culture can be approached best by taking the relation between organ, church and liturgy as the point of departure. The organ will only survive if it...
The secret of organ festival Toulouse-les-Orgues by Hans Fidom

The secret of organ festival Toulouse-les-Orgues by Hans Fidom

Hans Fidom The secret of organ festival Toulouse-les-OrguesHet ORGEL 101 (2005), nr. 1, 26-31 [summary] In October 2004, the ninth international organ festival Toulouse-les-Orgues was held. In two weeks’ time sixty activities were presented, all of which were very...

The former organ at Manor Ter Horst by Corrie de Kool

Corrie de Kool The former organ at Manor Ter HorstHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 2, 14-18 [summary]   – In one of the annexes of Manor Ter Horst, near the village of Loenen (Veluwe) there was a clandestine chapel from 1792 until 1849. In 1849, when Catholic Churches were...

Use and ‘disuse’ the organ in the future by Joost Langeveld

Joost Langeveld Use and ‘disuse’ the organ in the futureHet ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 2, 19-25 [summary]   – If we take no action, it is not impossible that the organ in the future will be played only to remind the audience of past times. Although organ culture is quite...

‘We just pull all the stops’ by Jan Veldkamp

Jan Veldkamp ‘We just pull all the stops’Het ORGEL 100 (2005), nr. 2, 26-30 [summary] ‘We just pull all the stops’ was the answer, when organ builder Jan Veldkamp offered to explain to the local organist some of the registration possibilities of an instrument his firm...