LOR aims to showcase an exceptional concentration of remarkable instruments by creating a tourist dynamic with the organ as its common thread.
This site will guide you on the discovery of these organs, will help you to prepare your itinerary, and will point out the concerts and various musical entertainments which take place along this atypical line.
Franco-alsatian style at Collegiate Church - historic J. BESANÇON / restauration by Bertrand CATTIAUX workshop
Before the French Revolution, organ builders often settled in episcopal capitals, where they could count on the many convents clustered around the cathedral as potential customers. On the left bank of the high Rhine valley, the city of Strasburg attracted prestigious builders like the Silbermanns. The city of Basel could not exert the same attraction […]
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Sud-Germany style at Bellelay Abbey - Great organ - KUHN manufacture
The great Bossard organ of the former Premonstratensian monastery of Bellelay, which dated back to 1721, disappeared during the French Revolution. Among the visible traces of the instrument, the most mysterious was its silhouette: it was drawn on the west wall, like a memorial, seeming to express the expectation of its rebirth. In addition to […]
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L’école française à la cathédrale St-Christophe – historique J.-B. WALTRIN puis Frères CALLINET / restauration manufacture K. SCHWENKEDEL
The Organ of la Cathédrale Saint-Christophe, three dates, three faces: 1750 – the creation and Jean-Baptiste Waltrin, 1850 – the extension and the Callinet brothers, 1970 – the reconstruction and Kurt Schwenkedel In 1749, the city of Belfort ordered an organ from Jean-Baptiste Waltrin. The father of Jean-Baptiste had built the organ of the old […]
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Central-Germany style at Jesuits-Church - Jürgen AHREND workshop
The wishes expressed by the local officials and the handsome decorations of the Jesuit church prompted me to choose a historical façade – a model by Gottfried Silbermann. The fact that up to then no organ builder had ever attempted an integral copy of these beautiful organ cases was a further major incentive. The goal […]
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LES SAMEDIS DE L’ORGUE – I
04 May 2024
17h – basilique de LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) – concert Amis de l’orgue de Luxeuil–les-Bains(F) Jean-Claude Raupp avec la participation des Ambrosiniens -11h : « mise en bouche » : introduction aux œuvres proposées au concert (gratuit) -17h : présentation de l’orgue historique suivi d’un concert gratuit
STAGE D’ORGUE ESPAGNOL
07 May 2024
au 11 mai – église de Grandvillars (F) – L’orgue espagnol et sa littérature Professeur Jean-Charles ABLITZER – Stage proposé par ACORG (www.acorg.fr) Accueil mardi 7 mai en fin d’après-midi, départ le samedi 11 après-midi Renseignements et inscriptions via notre formulaire de contact (page d’accueil, onglet “nous contacter” – Places limitées
LES SAMEDIS DE L’ORGUE – II
01 Jun 2024
17h – basilique de LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) – concert Amis de l’orgue de Luxeuil–les-Bains(F) Jean-Claude Raupp avec la participation des Ambrosiniens -11h : « mise en bouche » : introduction aux œuvres proposées au concert (gratuit) -17h : présentation de l’orgue historique suivi d’un concert gratuit
LES SAMEDIS DE L’ORGUE – III
08 Jun 2024
17h – basilique de LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) Amis de l’orgue de Luxeuil-les-Bains (F) Constance TAILLARD Versailles Westminster – 11h « mise en bouche » : introduction aux œuvres proposées au concert (gratuit) – 17h présentation de l’orgue historique suivi d’un concert gratuit Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell, Louis Couperin, Guillaume-Nicolas Nivers, Nicolas Lebègue Informations au 03 84 40 06 41
