Ancient European organs; Vaxjo and Malmo organs

This week we explored two of Europe's into a historical and musical interest. Here's a music composed by their contemporaries. With very few exceptions even on a worldwide basis it's not often a museum will devote its interest acquisition funds and display space to musical instruments. Generally speaking only the largest museums in the world's largest cities have sought to preserve this aspect of culture. Fortunately two very ancient Swedish organs have fallen into the hands of interested museums. So today's broadcast of ancient European organs was recorded in the museums in next year and mount higher in suite. The Fix You are in which we will hear first is the younger of the two.

Little is known of its history where it was originally erected and its subsequent wanderings before it reached the museum's doors. Fortunately however the builder was proud of his creation to sign and date it. The builder was Hans Heinrich common and the date of construction was 60 90. Historically this is the extent of our information about the vex your museum organ. It's relatively small in musical resources. It has only one manual no pedal and only eight stops. We have heard Kitty a bench that's getting a duplex creased am Kitty able to

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The second museum organ to be heard on today's program of ancient European organs is housed in the Mao museum considerable research over a period of years has failed to reveal the name of the builder of this rather impressive instrument. Although the exact date of its construction is also on our own it's reported that unmistakable evidence points to the fact that it was built sometime during the 15 hundreds. If this dating is correct the instrument was indeed a most impressive one for its time. It has two manuals and petal and twenty two stops. That was Ken's own up by Hans Lael Hosler one of the outstanding figures

in the 16th and very early 17th century European musical world. We come now to the concluding composition on today's program of ancient European organs performed on the tube manual and pedal instrument of twenty two stops preserved in the museum in Malmo Sweden. Go tot on air a place of work by another famous German organist on composer Samuel shite Shi'ite born in 15 87 was among the very first composers to treat the working out of the corral for organ in an artistic manner thus laying the foundations for the monumental corral Pragya woods of Johann Sebastian Bach which were to follow a hundred years later. Here is an improvisation on the English song fortune. My folks were composed by Samuel shite. That was an improvisation on the English song fortune. My folk

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