{"id":5799,"date":"2022-03-31T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/abbey-church\/kirche\/organ-and-the-monks-choir\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:49:37","slug":"organ-and-the-monks-choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/abbey-church\/kirche\/organ-and-the-monks-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ and the monks\u2019 choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leav\u00ading the church, one pass\u00ades beneath the mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent Wel\u00adtenburg mar\u00adble gallery cre\u00adat\u00aded for the organ by Pietro Francesco Gior\u00adgi\u00adoli. This organ, built&nbsp;in<br>\n1728\u201329), is char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic of the famous organ builder J. K. Bran\u00adden\u00adstein. In its present form, it has 13 reg\u00adis\u00adters, which are played from a sin\u00adgle man\u00adu\u00adal and ped\u00adal. Look\u00ading up to the gallery from the nave, one sens\u00ades a light-filled room behind the organ, tied archi\u00adtec\u00adton\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly to the main space of the church by the sur\u00adround\u00ading cor\u00adnice. Reached com\u00adfort\u00adably via a spi\u00adral stair\u00adcase, the monks\u2019 choir is an inti\u00admate space ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded to choral recita\u00adtion. Beneath the ceil\u00ading vault of 1736, with its Asam fres\u00adco admon\u00adish\u00ading the brethren to atten\u00adtive prayer, the horse\u00adshoe-shaped ranks of pol\u00adished oak and spruce wood choir stalls (c. 1730) are orna\u00adment\u00aded with carv\u00ading and inlay&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/strong><br>\n<strong>man\u00adu\u00adal<\/strong><br>\nMain (8\u2032)<br>\nGam\u00adba bas\u00adso (8\u2032)<br>\nGam\u00adba disc. (8th\u2019)<br>\nEcho (8\u2032)<br>\nCopel (8\u2032)<br>\nDol\u00addrums (4\u2032)<br>\nGemshorn (4\u2032)<br>\nQuint (3\u2032)<br>\nFor\u00adest dol\u00addrums (2\u2032)<br>\nSupe\u00adr\u00adoc\u00adtave (2\u2032)<br>\nMix\u00adture triple (1\u2032)<br>\nOctave (4\u2032)<\/p>\n<p><strong>ped\u00adal<\/strong><br>\nsub bass (16\u2032)<br>\noctave bass (8\u2032)<\/p>\n<p>Man\u00adu\u00adal range: C, D, E. F, G, A \u2014&nbsp;c\u2019<br>\nPed\u00adal range: C, D, E, F, G, A \u2013 a\u00b0. The man\u00adu\u00adal reg\u00adis\u00adters also sound via the ped\u00adal, so it is \u201cattached\u201d and has two addi\u00adtion\u00adal ped\u00adal registers.<br>\nMechan\u00adi\u00adcal actions left in their his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal condition.<br>\nThe wind tur\u00adbine works with a fan and mag\u00ada\u00adzine bel\u00adlows or with three recon\u00adstruct\u00aded wedge bel\u00adlows, as they were com\u00admon in 1729; they are wound either by hand or by elec\u00adtric motors, as in the past, as is the case with our recording.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5799-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/orgel.mp3?_=1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/orgel.mp3\">https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/orgel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Audio exam\u00adple: Pas\u00adtorale in F major, BWV 590 from the CD Donauk\u00adl\u00f6ster Wel\u00adtenburg, Met\u00adten, Nieder\u00adal\u00adtaich, avail\u00adable in the monastery shop.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leav\u00ading the church, one pass\u00ades beneath the mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent Wel\u00adtenburg mar\u00adble gallery cre\u00adat\u00aded for the organ by Pietro Francesco Gior\u00adgi\u00adoli. This organ, built&nbsp;in 1728\u201329), is char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic of the famous organ builder J. K. Bran\u00adden\u00adstein. In its present form, it has 13 reg\u00adis\u00adters, which are played from a sin\u00adgle man\u00adu\u00adal and ped\u00adal. Look\u00ading up to the gallery&nbsp;\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/abbey-church\/kirche\/organ-and-the-monks-choir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cOrgan and the monks\u2019 choir\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5758,"parent":5787,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5799","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5799\/revisions\/5840"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kloster-weltenburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}