St. Jacobi

One of Europe's ancient order this was

not some flux of historical and musical in the performance of music composed

by one of its kind.

One of civilized man's definitions of Rock Creek Park.

Word away with the OS when you're

almost at every state bias where we

all were leveled to the ground make way for New Jersey

public buildings businesses walk my way home

long before I was going to photos or with seemingly no regard for

their national historical or cultural importance.

Fortunately the opposite seems to be true in most European countries.

There are all encompassing laws rigidly enforced protective structures of

all kinds. Buildings which because of their age and long

association with the life of the country have become part of the national heritage of the

land in turn. I'm not at all surprising way these have

become magnets of tremendous power attracting tourists by the millions.

But of even greater significance is the inestimable value of these buildings and their

contents to the scholar who would understand the culture of the past so that he

might perceive the significance of events today and be prepared for the dawn of tomorrow.

It's no accident that the great organ of the 17th century in the U.S. Jacoby

church in Hamburg Germany still exists in virtually its original form.

Rather it is by design the result of at least two events which although planned

and carried out with considerable skill border on the miraculous.

Late in World War One about one thousand thirteen thousand nine hundred fourteen the

German army requisition a large and valuable tin pipes of the organ

although they were extremely difficult to duplicate. These ranks were rebuilt to

original specifications and replaced. During World

War Two by one of those strange intuitions of impending danger. The entire

organ was carefully dismantled and hidden away. Subsequently

St. Jacoby's was very badly damaged. But on Sunday January

29 one thousand sixty one the original seventeenth century organ was

rededicated that work having been carefully carried out by the firm of Kemper

in Hamburg. The organising Jacoby's church was built

by are generally regarded as the greatest of the Baroque organ builders if

not one of the greatest organ builders of all time. Certainly that was the

most international of the builders of his time. His instruments are found not only in

Germany chiefly North Germany but also in Holland England faraway

Spain and even remote Russia. That girl was born

in sixteen forty eight in the county of old inboard. He died in Homburg nine

felt in 1728. His date's Sixteen forty eight

to seventeen twenty coincide for his manhood thirty five years with those of the

greatest organist of the time Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in sixteen 85

and dying in 1758. The

organs in the churches of aren't stopped in your house and Weimar Go-To and

lights over which Bach resided with considerable distinction no longer

exist but the organ of St. Jacoby's in Homburg has been preserved for us as

it was when it enchanted the young Bach would come to audition for the post of

organist and choir master the good burghers turned him down but only three

years later he went to the Thomas care to invite sig where he created more monumental

organ compositions and a stupendous quantity of incomparable sacred choral music.

The organist too won out over the youthful Bach and who served St. Jacoby at the

same time has long since been forgotten. The unique

beauty of this baroque organ was not truly rediscovered until the second decade of the

20th century. This was not a period in which a different conception of tone

called romantic but about run it's course fish that are organ and saying to

Kobe's was the subject of an organ symposium in one thousand twenty five in which

time any German organist sent the famous organ teachers and recital lists going to Rahman

and Carl participated. The changing taste in organ tonal

design which is now in turn about run its course dates from this

symposium. Stick your skill as an organ builder remains unchallenged to

this day as was customary in those times he began his profession with an apprenticeship

as carpenter and wood carver. Many organ historians credit him with major interest

and concern reflecting the mechanical portions of the organ which may be true but

it's also true that this was a general concern of all organ builders during the Baroque period.

Undoubtedly there was at least equally concerned with the tonal aspect of his

instruments. The scene Jacoby organ typifies the art of

organ building in northern Germany among instruments surviving from this epoch which is the

largest and by far the most important. It took four years to build and it was

not finished until 16 93. It has 67 stops distributed

between four manuals and pedals. There's a total of three thousand five hundred

planks. Connector took the oldest pipes for his new instrument from an organ

built for Saint Jacoby's between the years 15 12 and 15 16

constant improvements had been made on this original organ for one hundred seventy five years

and 60 93 when she erected his monumental instrument.

Each of the four manuals bears the trademark with a tone complete chorus effect. The

great power of the full organ is achieved with a six to eight rank mixture is employed.

And the special note of the 16 foot principle forming the basis for the chorus on the great manual

and the thirty foot pedal principle. In

1959 the aging Albert Schweitzer visited Saint Jacoby's and asked the organist Hanks

Wunderlich to play some of Johann Sebastian Bach compositions for him. The organist

obliged with the extended part or variations on the

tune Zagat grist. Incidentally this

composition is a perfect vehicle for displaying the wide variety of solo stops and combinations

as well as the numerous ensembles possible on this large instrument. Hinds

ventilate the incumbent organist to St Jacoby's church in Hamburg Germany. When

I perform this Partita of Johann Sebastian Bach based on that Dylan

grist Hail to the beloved Jesus.

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the beloved Jesus.

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Listening to another program in the series going through European or

instruments a regular during the period from the Middle Ages and

gather with the spot in which they are close to the

boat by men who are their contemporaries.

Today's thought was recorded in a city Jacoby's church in Germany

instead was played by organized Hines Wunderlich incumbent organist FC to

Kobe's was built and erected by the most famous and with knowledge of the German folk

for the art for a manual at that or the

67 stops running for the principal

at 0 6 0.

Live pictures of my instrument includes pipes from the original

organising dating from 15. Well the burials for these

broadcasts of recordings by members of the European Broadcasting your new program being

supplied by the North German radio program was prepared and written

by how well it produced at the University of Michigan. Speaking like this

next week or so time.

Another probe into European markets.

This is the national educational radio network.