How can the development of organ culture be triggered? The Hamburg Orgeltagung in 1925 is an interesting example as groundbreaking manifestation of the young German organ reform movement, the Orgelbewegung. This conference gathered organists, musicologists and organ builders, to exchange ideas and articulate visions for the future of the organ.
One of the key figures of the Hamburg meeting and the organ reform was the writer, music publisher and organ builder Hans Henny Jahnn, founder of Ugrino, a music publishing house which was also a community with utopian traits. At the end of World War I Jahnn had rediscovered the monumental 1693 Arp Schnitger organ in the Hamburg Jakobi Church, a major source of inspiration for the organ reform movement and the main focus of the Hamburg meeting. The symposium explores the significance of Jahnn’s work and ideas on historical organs as well as the Hamburg meeting, which triggered a development that was to dominate organ culture throughout the 20th and the early 21st century.
Harald Vogel Professor Emeritus of Organ, Hochschule für Kunst
Bremen, DE
Joel Speerstra Senior Lecturer in Music, Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg
Kerala J. Snyder Professor Emerita of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, US
Kimberly Marshall Professor of Organ, Arizona State University, US
Sverker Jullander Professor Emeritus of Musical Performance,
Luleå University of Technology
William Porter Professor Emeritus of Organ, Eastman School of
Music, University of Rochester, US
Paul Peeters organ researcher, Göteborg International Organ Academy
Bine Bryndorf Professor of Organ, Royal Academy of Music, London UK
In collaboration with Göteborg International Organ Academy
and Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg.
