The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France
For For organists and organ builders and historians of the organ reform movement; not for readers without an interest in the instrument.
A short essay published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig in 1906, first printed in the periodical Die Musik. Schweitzer compares the organs of Germany and France and the ways they were played, and argues against the factory-built organ of his day, praising the tonal qualities of older instruments and of the French builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. It is the founding text of his campaign for the preservation and sound building of organs, which led to his work on the international organ-building regulations of 1909 and made him one of the starting points of the organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung).
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