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Organ In The Martinikerk At Groningen
The west gallery organ of the Martinikerk in Groningen dates from the 15th century; it took its present form in the 18th century when it was expanded by Arp Schnitger, his son Franz Caspar Schnitger and his successor Albertus Antonius Hinsz. It has 52 speaking stops on three manuals and pedal, and is one of the largest and most famous baroque organs in Northern Europe. Building history Predecessor An instrument was built in the Martinikerk in the middle of the 15th century; this was expanded in 1479 after the construction of the Gothic tower, probably under the direction of Rodolphus Agricola, Groningen's syndic and a noted humanist. From this late-Gothic instrument, numerous pipes survive today. Even beyond the time of Schnitger's rebuilding, the organ was 'branded' as the work of Agricola, as indicated by the panel placed below the Rugwerk ('Chair organ') in 1691 by the city fathers: "OPUS RUDOLPHI AGRICOLAE ...". An unknown organ builder (possibly the young Andreas de Mare) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinikerk Groningen Orgel
Martinikerk may refer to one of several churches in the Netherlands: * Martinikerk (Bolsward) * Martinikerk (Doesburg) * Martinikerk (Easterein), Easterein * Martinikerk (Franeker), Franeker * Martinikerk (Groningen) * Martinikerk (Sneek), Sneek Other uses * Martinikerk Rondeau, a documentary See also * St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht * St. Martin's Church (other) {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. It occurred after the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages and was associated with great social change. In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a "long Renaissance" may put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. The traditional view focuses more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argues that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the Middle Ages. However, the beginnings of the period – the early Renaissance of the 15th century and the Italian Proto-Renaissance from around 1250 or 1300 – overlap considerably with the Late Middle Ages, conventionally da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sietze De Vries
Sietze K. de Vries (born 1973) is a Dutch organist, church musician and academic teacher. In the context of his international concert activities, he became known for his renowned organ improvisations on chorale, psalm, and hymn melodies in numerous styles and the ''Genevan Psalter'' in numerous styles, but most especially in that of the Renaissance and the Baroque. He is one of several organists at the Martinikerk in the Dutch city of Groningen. Life Sietze de Vries' father was the organist at the Gereformeerde Kerk (Vrijgemaakt) in Niezijl, where his grandfather was the sexton. During his school years, de Vries attended the ''Gomarus College'' in Groningen. Since 1988, he received organ lessons from lecturers at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen. The lessons took place at the famous Organ in the Martinikerk at Groningen, which received its authoritative form in 1692 through Arp Schnitger. de Vries studied at the Groningen Conservatory with Johan Beeftink, Jan Jong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Fock
Gustav Fock (18 November 1893 – 12 March 1974) was a German music historian, editor early music and organologist (musical instrumentologist). He is considered the most important Arp Schnitger, Schnitger researcher of his time. Life and work Born in Neuenfelde, Fock was a captain's son from a family of seafarers in 1893. His father's name was Claus Hinrich Fock and he died early in 1913. His mother was Greta, ''née'' Fortriede, Tiedemann († 1969). Claus Hinrich Fock was the owner and skipper of the two-masted ships called "Cadet" and later "Greta". His lifelong fascination for Arp Schnitger - who was also born in Neuenfelde - and his encounter with Schnitger's organ there awakened his lifelong fascination for this organ builder. He attended the Royal Music Institute of Berlin in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1919/20, then studied musicology with Max Seiffert at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and with Fritz Stein in Kiel, where he was granted his doctorate in 1931 on "Hamburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipe Organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks'', each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass. Most organs have many ranks of pipes of differing timbre, pitch, and volume that the player can employ singly or in combination through the use of controls called stops. A pipe organ has one or more keyboards (called '' manuals'') played by the hands, and a pedal clavier played by the feet; each keyboard controls its own division, or group of stops. The keyboard(s), pedalboard, and stops are housed in the organ's ''console''. The organ's continuous supply of wind allows it to sustain notes for as long as the corresponding keys are pressed, unlike the piano and harpsichord whose sound begins to dissipate immediately after a key is depressed. The smallest po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürgen Ahrend
Jürgen Ahrend (born 28 April 1930) is a German organ builder famous for restoring instruments such as the Rysum organ and the Arp Schnitger organ in St. Jacobi, Hamburg (St James's Church) as well as building original instruments. He is interviewed extensively in the film '' Martinikerk Rondeau'', released in 2009. Ahrend was born in Göttingen on 28 April 1930. From 1946 to 1948, he served an apprenticeship in the firm of . Afterwards, he worked for the firm as employee. In 1954, he formed a partnership with in Leer-Loga, Lower Saxony. They produced 54 new organs and made 19 restorations, until Brunzema left the firm in 1972. Since January 1972, the workshop has been operating under the name ''Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau''. Since 2005, his son Hendrik Ahrend has run the workshop. Awards * 21 May 1986 Niedersachsenpreis for Culture * 19 April 2000 Honorary doctorate from the Monash University, Victoria, Australia * 5 May 2007 The Buxtehude Prize from the city of Lübeck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cor Edskes
Cornelius Herman "Cor" Edskes (7 August 1925 – 7 September 2015) was a Dutch organbuilder and organologist who was one of the most important authorities on the history of organ building in Northern Europe. He acted as the consultant for the restoration of many of Europe's most important historical organs, including those in the Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam) and Roskilde Cathedral (both working with the firm Marcussen & Son). Born in Groningen, Edskes had a working relationship with the German organ builder Jürgen Ahrend that began in the 1950s, included the restoration of many organs in Germany and Holland, and culminated in the restoration of Arp Schnitger's largest surviving organ at St. Jacobi, Hamburg. Edskes was the major onscreen contributor to the documentary ''Martinikerk Rondeau ''Martinikerk Rondeau'' is a 110-minute documentary film directed by Will Fraser and produced by Fugue State Films for Boeijenga Music Publications, about the historic organs of the Dutch pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regency Style
Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era The Regency era of British history officially spanned the years 1811 to 1820, though the term is commonly applied to the longer period between and 1837. George III of the United Kingdom, King George III succumbed to mental illness in late 18 ... in the early 19th century when George IV of the United Kingdom, George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. The period coincides with the Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Federal style in the United States and the French Empire style. Regency style is also applied to interior design and decorative arts of the period, typified by elegant furniture and vertically striped wallpaper, and to styles of clothing; for men, as typified by the dandy Beau Brummell and for women the Empire silhouette. The style is strictly the late phase of Georgian architecture, and follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontispiece (architecture)
In architecture, the term frontispiece is used to describe the principal face of the building, usually referring to a combination of elements that frame and decorate the main or front entrance of a building. The earliest and most notable variation of frontispieces can be seen in Ancient Greek Architecture which features a large triangular gable, known as a pediment, usually supported by a collection of columns. However, some architectural authors have often used the term "frontispiece" and "pediment" interchangeably in reference to both large frontispieces decorating the main entrances, as well as smaller frontispieces framing windows which is traditionally known as a pediment. Frontispieces in pre-20th century architecture were considered decorative and ornamental structures used predominantly to dignify the façades of the building rather than for any structural or practical purpose. With the proliferation of minimalistic ideas in 21st century architecture, a large emphasis is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groningen Martinikerk Orgel Spieltisch 01
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of the country; as of December 2021, it had 235,287 inhabitants, making it the sixth largest city/municipality of the Netherlands and the second largest outside the Randstad. Groningen was established more than 950 years ago and gained city rights in 1245. Due to its relatively isolated location from the then successive Dutch centres of power (Utrecht, The Hague, Brussels), Groningen was historically reliant on itself and nearby regions. As a Hanseatic city, it was part of the North German trade network, but later it mainly became a regional market centre. At the height of its power in the 15th century, Groningen could be considered an independent city-state and it remained autonomous until the French era. Today Groningen is a university city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syndic
Syndic (Late Latin: '; Greek: ' – one who helps in a court of justice, an advocate, representative) is a term applied in certain countries to an officer of government with varying powers, and secondly to a representative or delegate of a university, institution or other corporation, entrusted with special functions or powers. The meaning which underlies both applications is that of representative or delegate. Du Cange (''Gloss, s.v. Syndicus''), after defining the word as defensor, patronus, advocatus, proceeds "Syndici maxime appellantur Actores universitatum, collegiorum, societatum et aliorum corporum, per quos, tanquam in republica quod communiter agi fierive oportet, agitur et fit," and gives several examples from the 13th century of the use of the term. The most familiar use of ''syndic'' in the first sense is that of the Italian ''sindaco'' and the French ''syndic'' who is the head of the administration of a ''comune'', comparable to a mayor, and a government official, elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolphus Agricola
Rodolphus Agricola ( la, Rudolphus Agricola Phrisius; August 28, 1443, or February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the Northern Low Countries, famous for his knowledge of Latin and Greek. He was an educator, musician, builder of church organs, a poet in Latin and the vernacular, a diplomat, a boxer and a Hebrew scholar towards the end of his life. Today, he is best known as the author of ''De inventione dialectica'', the father of Northern European humanism and as a zealous anti- scholastic in the late fifteenth century. Biography Agricola was born in Baflo in the Dutch province of Groningen as the illegitimate son of the cleric and future abbot Hendrik Vries and Zycka Huesman, a rich farmer's daughter. He was originally named ''Roelof Huesman'', or ''Huisman'', his mother's surname. The Latin adjective ''Phrisius'' identifies him as a Frisian. Educated first by the school of St. Maarten in Groningen, Agricola matriculated at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
