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EPILOGUEEARLY YEARS OF THE ORGAN REFORM MOVEMENT Industrialization during the late decades of the 19th century resulted in organs produced by a host of specialists with no one having the full survey. The symphony orchestrawas the great example, and the organ workshops grew into factories, producing bigger and heavier instruments far from the idea that an organ is a unique work of art. But a change arose after the First World War - ''The Organ Reform Movement'', seeking to revive the true sound of organs from renaissance and baroque. The organbuilding firms, Frobenius and Marcussen, are situated far from each other in Denmark, and each of them were influenced by different currents within the Organ Reform Movement: Frobenius in Copenhagen followed the Alsacian movement of Albert Schweitzer, and Marcussen in South Jutland was generally characterized by theHamburg-Lübeck organ-meetings in 1929, of which Hans Henny Jahnn was one of the leaders. In 1922 Sybrand Zachariassen, just 21 years old, became the leader of Marcussen & Son, being next generation of the family-owned firm in Aabenraa. This part of the country had after the First World War changed from German to Danish rule, and his firm worked hard to find its bearings toward the Danish market.<br>Poul-Gerhard Andersen, having for some years studied technology in Copenhagen and in his sparetime received classes in organ-playing, in 1926 became an apprentice at Marcussen & Son. A circle of persons contributed to evolving the instruments of the Marcussen firm, among them the conductor and organist Mogens Wöldike, and later his student, theorganist Finn Viderø. Having heard Schweitzer playing in Copenhagen, Viderø was influenced by Schweitzer's ideas of the neo-baroque style. Technically, Videre was a competent organplayer and soon created an image of himself as a pronounced organsoloist, with a radical style.<br>1942 he was appointed organist at the new-built Jægersborg Church, which yet hadonly a harmonium. But negotiations about building an organ were near the first step.(tbc..) EPILOGUE
Gentofte/Jægersborg, Jægersborg Kirke (Quelltext anzeigen)
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Much has happened since the Jægersborg organ had its heyday.<br>Today you can build uncompromising organs that in historic ways of building revive baroque organbuilding far more authentically. But imitation of some other instrument or era never was the ambition with the Jægersborg organ. On the contrary, the objective was to create a beautiful work of art. And so it was done.<br>
