Cavaille-Coll''s Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter''s, Rome - Bigger Than Them All

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Ebrecht is Artist in Residence and University Organist at Wesleyan University. Klappentext Cavaillé-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All , by Ronald Ebrecht, tells the engrossing story of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll's quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the biggest church at the time. Cavaillé-Coll is often referred to as the greatest organ builder of all time, and his efforts to build this impressive organ were complicated by intricate, intractable problems. Saint-Peter's Square, now a part of the Vatican City State, was then part of the newly-united Italy, which had just deposed the pope as ruler of the center of Italy and taken over the papal lands. It was a part of the Italian state so hotly contested that the Italian Republicans would not accept an organ hanged from the basilica wall, lest the nearby, oft-disputed boundary shift. Before, or since, has the music sphere ever provoked such a question that could bring nations to swords?

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Ebrecht, Ebrecht Ronald
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780739167281
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6728-1
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 263 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, MUSIC / Religious / General, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Keyboard instruments, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music