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2018.02
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Content
- Luk Bastiaens, De orgels van de Sint-Baafskathedraal te Gent van de 19de eeuw tot 1913
- Luk Bastiaens, De organisten van de Sint-Baafskathedraal te Gent
- Gilbert Huybens, Hommage aan dr. Godelieve Spiessens
- Bart Wuilmus, Het Pels & Van Leeuwen-orgel van de Sint-Pieterskerk te Tielt
- Luk Bastiaens, Het Orgelpark te Amsterdam neemt nieuw orgel in gebruik voor Bach én nieuwe muziek
Details
- Luk Bastiaens, The organs of St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent from the 19th century up to 1913
The history of the organs at St Bavo’s Cathedral is rather complex. Especially in the first half of the 20th century source material was published. Information about the 18th century is scant, but from the early 19th century up to the present we are fairly well informed. The main document from the 19th century was drafted by Parisian organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899). It is a specification commissioned by the cathedral’s director of music to renovate the Grandes Orgues. In it Cavaillé-Coll has included a description of the condition of the 1855 organ, which had almost entirely preserved its 18th century character. It is the first stoplist of the cathedral organ since 1653.
In 1868 both Maximilien Van Peteghem and Petrus Vereecken drew up new specifications. Cavaillé-Coll reused his 1855 draft. It is Petrus Vereecken who won a contract to repair and renew the organ. The new pedals foreseen in the specification were not built. Around 1900 the organ was apparently considered unsatisfactory, for organ builder Pierre Schyven from Brussels was asked to draw up a plan for the construction of a new pneumatic organ with independent pedals. However, it was organ builder Georges Cloetens who signed an agreement with the church council for the construction of a new three-manual organ with pedals. The instrument that was constructed counted 40 stops, had four manuals and a pedalboard and was dedicated and inaugurated on October 22nd 1913. Cathedral organist Emiel De Groote and organ builder Georges Cloetens performed works by Lemmens, Clérambault, Mendelssohn, Capocci, Franck and Mailly.