2020.02

Daan Manneke has previously been given a platform in Orgelkunst. In 1996 he contributed an article on his own organ compositions. Later, in 2009, Kees Weggelaar wrote a portrait of the celebrated Dutch composer, and new organ works by Manneke were recorded for the CD supplement accompanying that issue. His 80th birthday, together with several recent honours—including a French distinction—provided the occasion for a second portrait, described as “flamboyant and surprising.”
The Norbertines have also become regular contributors to our journal. No richer crown than one’s own beauty! At Averbode Abbey they wholeheartedly believe this—especially when it comes to their organs. Jozef Van Osta, O. Praem., seized by a fiery passion for the organ, eloquent in speech and writing, and above all blessed with canonical patience, was able last year to crown his research with a doctorate on the rich and fascinating organ history of his abbey. His dissertation has since been published as an excellent scholarly study. In Orgelkunst he looks back on this achievement and shares his account.
Bart Wuilmus then travelled to Eversel to report on his visit to the recently restored organ attributed to Johannes Beerens. That instrument ultimately leads us to new findings on the German organ-building family Ruef, presented in a contribution by Paul Peeters.

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