Rogér vanDijk & Cees van der Poel Hugo Distler and ‘his’ organsHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 4, 18-34 [summary] Distler found a lively church-musical life in de Jakobikirche inLübeck in 1931. The two historical organs in this church, inparticular the Stellwagen organ,...
Jan Hage Organ music in Nazi GermanyHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 4, 36-43 [summary] German church music of the 1930s can be viewed as practically usefulchurch music originating from a re-orientation toward the roots ofGerman culture, in which neo-classical ideals like...
Auke Hendrik Vlagsma Four organs in Dordrechts historyHet ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 5, 4-15 [summary] The city of Dordrecht, from time immemorial a commercial city with international contacts, has a rich organ history involving native and foreign builders. The municipal...
Eddy Mul Bachs Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth Expression of a divine mystery?Het ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 5, 16-21 [summary] The Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth (BWV 591) by Johann Seb. Bach has 3 parts: Introïtus Centrum Exitus. Analysis of the form and the...
Peter van Dijk The liturgical function of Buxtehude’s organ worksHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 1, xx-xx [summary] Many organists in large North-German city churches improvised in theservices, but compositions were also written down for the use oforganists who did not...
Henk Verhoef Bach organs in Ansbach and DordrechtHet ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 5, 22-37 [summary] In 2007 two organs were completed that make claim to the title Bach organ. In the St.-Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach (Germany) the firm of Reil from Heerde reconstructed the...
Ibo Ortgies The next Buxtehude year in 2037 or 2038 (Thoughts concerning a problem in Buxtehude research)HetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 1, xx-xx [summary] The life and work of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died in 1707 inLübeck, were given much attention in 2007. The next...
Johann Th. Lemckert Messiaens early organ works (1928-1950): performance aspects, with particular reference to Gaston LitaizeHet ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 6, xx-xx [summary] Several twentieth-century composers demanded that their music be performed exactly as they...
Hans Beek Organ culture is benefited by research in archivesHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 1, xx-xx [summary] In Germany – otherwise than in the Netherlands – many sacred archivesare not deposited with regional or state archives. And these archiveshave often not...
René Verwer Messiaens organ at Ste.-Trinité, ParisHet ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 6, xx-xx [summary] In 1931 Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was appointed organiste titulaire of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Ste.-Trinité in Paris. From that time on he composed the greatest...
Rogér vanDijk en Cees van der Poel Two Smits organs: history and restorationHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 1, xx-xx [summary] Frans Smits I built an organ with three manuals in 1842 for theSt.-Petruskerk in Boxtel. The originally planned independentpedal was made only in...
Jan Hage Olivier Messiaen and surrealismHet ORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 6, xx-xx [summary] In 1946 Ernest de Gengenbach called Messiaen a surrealistic composer, a characterization which the composer accepted. Although personally colored surrealism, as defined by De...
Marieke Stoel Paul Barras and his organ compositionsHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 2, 18-27 [summary] The blind Belgian organist Paul Barras (born in 1925) was taught byFlor Peeters at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen and the KoninllijkeConservatorium at Antwerpen. After...
G.J. Lepoeter The first organs in protestant village churches on Zuid-Beveland (Zeeland)HetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 2, 28-39 [summary] The arrival of a new Dutch version of psalms in verse in 1773 led onZuid-Beveland, a region in the Dutch province of Zeeland, to the...
Rogér vanDijk The Buchholz organ in St.-Nikolai in StralsundHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 2, 4-17 [summary] In the oldest and richest church of Stralsund, St.-Nikolai, there wasalready a large organ in 1368. Around 1600 NicolausMaaß built a new organ, that deteriorated...
Henny Wullink Pastor J.H. Hulsken and his chorale bookHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 3, 4-13 [summary] Congregational singing and accompaniment in the Netherlands were not ofgood quality in the nineteenth century. J.H. Hulsken(1786-1876), pastor of the Hervormde Kerk in...
Peter van Dijk The organ in Overlangbroek and the organmaker Albertus van OsHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 3, 14-31 [summary] The organ in the Protestant Church in Overlangbroek (prov. Utrecht) wasrestored in 2007. Until the restoration it wasuncertain who had built the...
Cees van der Poel& Rogér van Dijk J.L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw is forty years oldHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 3, 32-41 [summary] In 1967 Jan van den Heuvel started his own organ shop. Sincethe 70s he has been assisted by his brother Peter van denHeuvel. In the past...
Jan Raas A life marked by the fear of life – Hugo Distler (1908-1942): a biographical sketchHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 4, 4-11 [summary] Hugo Distler (born 24 June, 1908) was raised by his grandparents. Hestudied at Leipzig conservatory with Günter Ramin an...
Jan Raas The organ works of Hugo DistlerHetORGEL 104 (2008), nr. 4, 12-17 [summary] A chronological overview of Distler’s organ works forms anaccurate mirror of his life, in which organ playing and church musicfaded more and more into the background as he, both in his...
