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Reger on Europe's Largest Pipe Organ: Passau Cathedral

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BIG GERMANIC MUSIC on a BIG GERMANIC INSTRUMENT. The folks in Passau & at 1st Congregational Church in LA tussled for many years over which place had the "World's Largest Church Organ" -- a somewhat interesting designation since the 2 largest instruments in the world are in a department store & a stadium-sized auditorium. The LA church finally won, but it could be temporary, since they're always adding pipes at both places in this never-ending struggle. In the mean time, Passau now stakes claim to being "The largest organ outside the U.S." In any event, it's a monster. It's actually 5 instruments situated at various places around the building: 357 ranks, all playable from a central 5-manual console in the gallery. Passau is in southeastern Bavaria, at the intersection of 3 rivers: the Inn, the Danube, & the Ilz. I had to edit out about 20 seconds of this piece to fit inside the Tube's time limits. Hopefully, it's not too obvious where; some people say Reger should be edited much more ;-). He CAN take a long time to explore a musical thought.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: a55b47

Length: 09:43
Rating: 4.77
Views: 47848

Tags: Cathedral  classical  organ  organo  orgel  orgue  Passau  pipe  Reger  

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bachprofessore (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The church has an interesting architecture. Search for vierzehnheiligen on google to get some pictures!
sandcrab132 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
How is that physically possible?
bachprofessore (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A reverb like tis is standard in Bavaria, there are churches which are just 60 meters long and have a reverb of seven seconds.
bachprofessore (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think it is unimportant how big an organ is. Important is the sound of the organ and the acoustic of the room it is in, the rest are details. As bigger an organ is, as lower it's sound level.
MANTLEBERG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
What tragedy belies the mind of a composer like this? it frightens me to the extreme, im having nightmares while awake....help..help.
tjugofyra (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just read that the Evangelienorgel has a Saxophone 8' register! I have never heard a organ saxophone stop!
danhervin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
233 stops I think
tjugofyra (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
1.19-2.00 gives me goose bumps! In fact the whole sonata gives me goose bumps but 1.19.2.00 is above all!
Shadowtech666 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
most 55, some have 88.
a55b47 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Passau Cathedral has a web site for its instruments. Just Google. Also, I recommend highly Martin Doering's Die Orgelseite (Google again), which provides more information than you could ever want about organs all over Europe.

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