Ancient European organs; Pontifical Institute of Music

We. Were hoping the pontifical Institute of Historical interest performances during the 70s and 80s. History records the fact that around the middle of the seventeenth century there were more than

200 positive organs stand in Rome. This was about the time the punishment I'm dream of. Said. O'Gara was a violist attached to a French court as a politician position. Cardinal Richard Court of Louisville 30 even extends. This impressive number of instruments most impressive in fact that I've carried in history only a handful has survived. The instrument we were here today is one of them is carefully preserved at the Pontifical Institute of sacred music in Rome the first composer to be heard on today's broadcast as Francesco Spong guy Italian organist composer who in 16 27 became principal of the great school of St. John the Evangelist in Rome. Here is best at oh by Francesco spunk. I said oh by Francesco spunk it appears that there was a

special type of positive organ common only to Rome in which the pipes were arranged in descending ranks from right to left. With this arrangement of pipes it recalls the form of the ancient partitive instruments. The author Bach Otto and his book are a the law does indeed classify these instruments as portable and says that the best of the wing had one such as are used in Rome. In speaking of wings the author actually refers to large doors used to cover the instrument when it's not in use. When swung open by means of hinges on the larger Rand they do resemble huge Wayne from the pontifical Institute of Music in Rome. Organist Sandro Dali now plays two short compositions by the sixteenth century Italian composer Andrea Koppel. Creased a dummy sapa Stallone and Kitty Aidan I mean a pasta lot. Do compositions by Andrea Gabriele a creased nun I mean passed

along and give me a down I mean pasta Laura. The organ we are exploring today and the pontifical Institute of Music in Rome is a true positive organ. It came from the Church of St.. Priest on the up and Tyne where the Augustinian nuns settled down after abandoning the church of St. Martin in the Collegio Romano in 1870 according to Monsignor customary. The small organ in all probability it was built originally for St. Mark time its builder was a field of protest who dated the instrument in 1716. The instrument came to the attention of such men as gust away and the Englishman did Williams both of whom were especially interested in old organs and their preservation was because of their interest in it. But the organ was removed to the Pontifical Institute of sacred music where it is since been kept in fine working condition. We'll hear this remarkable little instrument again now as organist plays the

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sixty two that the instrument we're hearing today was carefully restored by Alfredo ph in L.A. under the direction of Jovian a lady who since 1933 has taught principal organ and organ RFA at the Pontifical Institute of sacred music in Rome where the organ is now housed. The organ still has but seven registers one manual and no pedals exactly as it was originally conceived in 1716 by its builder Philip protest. The stops are the as principal 8 foot 8 15 19 20 second Twenty sixth and Twenty ninth. It's interesting to note that there are no flutes or reads only the principal and a series of stops adding harmonics to the unison picture now we will hear a composition by Giovani Gabrielli cons on a Quatro. Giovani Guppy a lase comes on a Quatro organist

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today's program of ancient European organs we're aware by Giovani about Tista also an 18th century contemporary of the craftsmen who built the organ we are now hearing and one of the distinguished organist of St. Mark's in Venice. Here is the Sonata by escape a. So not a sick onda by the 18th century Italian composer and organist of St.

Mark's Venice Giovanni Battista. Been listening to another program in the series ancient European organ instruments erected during the period from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Together with facts about them and the structures in which they are housed and music which was performed on them by their contemporaries. Today's broadcast featured the one manual and no pedal organ originally erected in 1768 by a few to protest the Church of St. Martin in the Carnegie Albert to the only cute of sacred music.

Do note that the programs are recorded by members of the European bloc asking your. Pardon. On his radio or television program prepared and written well over at the University of Michigan I can listen again next week at the same time or another program of European organ. This is the national education or radio network.