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Organmistrzowski rodowód fortepianmistrzów

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Vogel B.

Aspekty Muzyki

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2017

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vol. 7

177-193

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For centuries all kinds of keyboard instruments such as organs, clavichords, harpsichords and pianos were made by organ builders, with pianos being additional by-products. The gradual specialization in manufacture came along with a growing demand for stringed keyboard instruments. Already in the 18th century, some organ builders in larger musical centers began making more harpsichords than pipe organs. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, one could clearly notice the trade specialization of makers originally educated as organ builders, of whom only few spent the rest of their lives manufacturing and repairing organs. Making harpsichords or pianos did not demand continuous journey in search for places or churches in need of new organs, where the maker had to stay for at least a few months, first to build the instrument and then to place it at the proper location within a given church. It did not demand adaptation to the architecture and acoustics of the sacral building. Instead, one could build these newly popular instruments in a stationary workshop or manufacture, and using a similar structural and artistic form, which in time simply gave way to serial production. This specialization process, first within the framework of a single trade, and later splitting in two different ones, will be shown on the examples of both European makers (such as Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence or Gottfried Silbermann in Freiberg), and Polish builders from the 18th–20th centuries — working in a variety of locations: from magnates’ mansions and small towns, like Sandomierz, through larger manufacture centers as Warsaw, Cracow, Gdańsk or Lvov.

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Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Regensburg. Das Regensburgische Diarium von 1760–1810 als Quelle orgelbauhistorischer Aspekte

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Haberl D.

Folia Organologica. International yearbook of organ and organ music

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2018

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issue 1

95-111

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The Regensburg organ life in the second half of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century is characterized by a surprisingly large variety. The playing and the building of organs and the organ trade have left clear traces in the Regensburg newspapers (“Regensburgisches Diarium”, “Regensburgische Frag- und Anzeige-Nachrichten” and “Kurfürstlich Erzkanzlerisches Regierungs- und Intelligenzblatt”). Organ music did not only take place in the Regensburg sacred buildings, but was also played on numerous verifiable house and chamber organs in the private houses and apartments of different social classes. Advertisements of about 40 organ instruments were documented during the reporting period. The domestic organ playing seems to have fulfilled a function in Regensburg at the end of the 18th century, which was replaced by the piano at the beginning of the 19th century. This large base of organ playing in Regensburg promoted the construction of organ positivs and house organs in different sizes (with up to three manuals and pedal) by the local organ builders. During their travels, numerous organ builders stayed as guests in Regensburg. The Regensburg and Regensburg-Stadtamhof-based organ builder families Herberger, Mälzel, Schmahl und Späth are documented with numerous entries in the “Diarium”. Both, the company and family stories of the individual organ building workshops like the contacts between local and traveling organ builders were extensively documented by newspaper reports. Especially the story of the famous Regensburg workshop Späth-Schmahl could be supplemented by the “Diariums” data to new findings. Also the knowledge of the organ and instrument maker family Mälzel and her best known son, the so-called metronome inventor Johann Nepomuk Mälzel the younger was augmented with important facts. The present evaluation of the organ-specific aspects of the “Regensburg Diarium” sees itself as a music-historical basic research for the local, regional as well as the national area. It would like to provide data and facts for later constructive research, well-founded starting point for new research approaches, detailed knowledge of the current state of research and reliable corrective of older researches.

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Historia organów w kościele pw. św. Wojciecha i Matki Bożej Bolesnej w Modlnicy

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Matoga P.

Nasza Przeszłość. Studia z dziejów Kościoła i kultury katolickiej w Polsce

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2020

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vol. 133

213-226

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The subject of the article is the history of the organ in the church of St. Adalbert and Our Lady of Sorrows in Modlnica. The article is based on the results of archival queries, with the largest number of sources coming from the parish archive. The research shows that the organ was present in the church at least from the first half of the 18th century. The present instrument was built in the years 1843–1844 by the Cracow organ builder, Ignacy Wojciechowski and was repaired, renovated and rebuilt several times. In 1888, the son of Ignacy, Tomasz Wojciechowski from Cracow, carried out the renovation, while in the second half of the 20th century, the company of Henryk Siedlar from Cracow added a pedal section to the instrument. The article contributes to the history of musical life in the parish of Modlnica and to the biography of Ignacy and Tomasz Wojciechowskis.

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Przedmiotem artykułu jest historia organów w kościele pw. św. Wojciecha i Matki Bożej Bolesnej w Modlnicy. Tekst oparty jest na rezultatach kwerend archiwalnych, przy czym najwięcej źródeł pochodziło z archiwum parafialnego. Podjęte badania wykazały, że organy w rzeczonej świątyni istniały co najmniej od pierwszej połowy XVIII w. Obecny instrument zbudował w latach 1843–1844 krakowski organmistrz Ignacy Wojciechowski. Organy te były wielokrotnie naprawiane, remontowane i przebudowywane. W 1888 r. renowację przeprowadził syn ich budowniczego, Tomasz Wojciechowski z Krakowa, natomiast w drugiej połowie XX w. firma Henryka Siedlara z Krakowa rozbudowała instrument o sekcję pedału. Artykuł stanowi przyczynek do historii życia muzycznego w parafii modlnickiej oraz do biografii Ignacego i Tomasza Wojciechowskich.

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Organmistrzowski rodowód fortepianmistrzów

Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Regensburg. Das Regensburgische Diarium von 1760–1810 als Quelle orgelbauhistorischer Aspekte

Historia organów w kościele pw. św. Wojciecha i Matki Bożej Bolesnej w Modlnicy