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.
Sud-Germany style at Bellelay Abbey - Choir organ - KUHN manufacture
The overall picture formed by the organs of the former Abbey of Bellelay at the beginning of the eighteenth century was to become reality again with the building of the choir organ, just after that of the regal organ and the reconstruction of the great organ. The building of the choir organ was made possible […]
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Italian style at Ste-Odile Church - Gérald GUILLEMIN workshop
Buffet peint et doré, Ripieno et jeux Da Concerto, Gérald Guillemin’s organ is designed for very “Italian” concerts. Built in 1979, this instrument is directly inspired by the classic Italian organ, by its sound aesthetics and by its painted, gilded case with the flat front made with mitres, flat faces and cornices. Like the type […]
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Iberic style at St-Martin Church - J. LOIS CABELLO and Ch. VETTER workshops - Polychromie by D. FERNANDEZ
Polychromy, gilding, short octave, chamades and cut keyboard, all the Spanish golden century in this instrument with contrasting and chiseled tones The construction of the instrument (2017/2018) was entrusted to a consortium of Spanish companies: Organos Moncayo of Christine Vetter in Tarazona, Aragon, and Taller de Organería of Joaquín Lois Cabello in Tordesillas, Castile. The […]
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Portable-organ at Abbey-Church of Bellelay and Jesuits-Church of Porrentruy - KUHN manufacture
The smallest organ in the former abbey church of Bellelay is a copy of the Ab Yberg family’s positive (made around 1600), now in the Basel Historical Museum. In the course of its history, the positive had undergone several transformations, in particular the extension and replacement of the original reed stop. The rehabilitation process restored […]
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JS BACH – RÉCEPTION ET INFLUENCE
07 Jun 2025
17 h – basilique St-Pierre et St-Paul LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) – concert Amis de l’orgue de Luxeuil (F) Olivier WYRWAS – Johann Sebastian Bach, réception et influence, œuvre de Bach, ses fils et ses élèves gratuit Tous samedis de l’orgue : à 11 h : présentation de l’orgue et introduction aux œuvres proposées – gratuit Informations au […]
NOËLS VARIÉS
05 Jul 2025
17 h – basilique St-Pierre et St-Paul LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) – concert Culture 70 (F) Matthieu Boutineau orgue Michel Corrette, Louis-Claude Daquin, Jean-François Dandrieu, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, Louis Vierne, Jean Langlais… gratuit Tous samedis de l’orgue : à 11 h : présentation de l’orgue et introduction aux œuvres proposées – gratuit Informations au 03 84 40 06 […]
DE BACH À SCHWEITZER
02 Aug 2025
17 h – basilique St-Pierre et St-Paul LUXEUIL-LES-BAINS (F) – concert Amis de l’orgue de Luxeuil (F) Thierry Mechler – œuvres de Johann Sebastian Bach, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Clara Schumann, Albert Schweitzer et improvisation gratuit Tous samedis de l’orgue : à 11 h : présentation de l’orgue et introduction aux œuvres proposées – gratuit […]
