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Osiris file:  silbermann-hildebrandt.hofkirche.dresden.-.de.1755

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Location:      Hofkirche, catholic
               Dresden, Germany

Builder:       Gottfried Silbermann and
               Zacharias Hildebrandt

Year:          1750-55
Opus:

Case
  Builder:      original by Francois Coudrai, (the younger) and
                Johann Joseph Hackl.
                Present case by Max and Joachim Engelstaedter in
                accordance with photographs and sketches of original.
                Carvings by Walter Thuermer and Rosi Schwabe.
  Date:
  Materials:
  Console type:
  Stop controls:
  Pedals type:

Action
  Key:            mechanical - slider chests
  Stop:           mechanical

Temperament:      equal
Tuning (a'):      440 (originally 415)
No. stops:        47
No. ranks:
No. pipes:

Wind supply:
  Power:          2 bellows with electric blower
                  (originals burned in Feb. 1945)
  Pressures (mm): since 1971 manuals 94, pedals 100
                  originally         94.3       107.4
                 or possibly         85          96.8

History:          1740  First negotiations with Silbermann for new organ.
                  1750  Concluded contract for construction.
                        Silbermann contracted partnership with Hildebrandt
                        to do the construction.
                  1753  Silbermann died; work continued by Hildebrandt
                        and Silbemann's nephew Johann Daniel Silbermann
                        from Strassburg.
               1779/80  Restoration of Vox humana and Posaune by Johann
                        Christian Friedrich Treubluth, an assistant to
                        Hildebrandt.
             1799/1801  Major repairs by Treubluth and Carl August Venzky.
             mid 1800s  Several modifications to pitch level so that the
                        organ could be used with the orchestra and other
                        instruments.
                  1938  Pitch raised to about 440 hz.
                        Pedal range extended to f1.
                  1944  Pipework, chests and action moved to storage in
                        Kloster Marienstern.
                  1945  Case and bellows destroyed in the air attack on Dresden.
                  1964  Jehmlich Brothers moved the organ to their
                        workshop for restoration.
                  1971  Restoration completed. Equal temperament retained
                        (over considerable opposition) because pipework had
                        been cut down in 1938.

Bibliography:     Ulrich Daehnert, Historische Orgeln in Sachsen,
                    Verlag das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main, 1980
Discography:

Comments:

Specification:

  Hauptwerk: (C,D -d3)

    1. Principal         16'  English tin
    2. Octav-Principal    8'  English tin
    3. Cornet             V   c1 - d3, wide scale, open  English tin
    4. Viol' da gamba     8'  conical, with ears  English tin
    5. Bordun            16'  C - c wood, from c# metal
    6. Octave             4'  English tin
    7. Rohrfloete         8'  Metal, from c# with chimney
    8. Spitzfloete        4'  English tin
    9. Quinta             3'  English tin
   10. Octava             2'  English tin
   11. Tertia         1 3/5'  English tin
   12. Mixtur  IV         2'  English tin
   13. Cymbel  III    1 1/3'  English tin
   14. Fagott            16'  boots pearwood, bodies English tin
   15. Trompete           8'  boots pearwood, bodies English tin

  Brustwerk: (C,D - d3)

    1. Principal          4'  English tin
    2. Gedackt            8'  Metal
    3. Rohrfloete         4'  Metal, from d#2 conical, open, tin
    4. Nasat              3'  Metal, stopped with chimney;
                                from g#, wide scale, open, tin
    5. Octava             2'  English tin
    6. Sesquialtera      II   English tin
                 4/5' 1 3/5'
    7. Quinta         1 1/2'  English tin
    8. Sifflet            1'  English tin
    9. Mixtur  III        1'  English tin
   10. Chalumeau          8'  g - d3, bodies cylindrical, open, English tin

  Oberwerk: (C,D - d3)

    1. Principal          8'  English tin
    2. Quintaden         16'  English tin
    3. Unda maris         8'  a - d3, tuned high to beat with
                                Principal, English tin
    4. Gedackt            8'  Metal
    5. Octave             4'  English tin
    6. Quintaden          8'  English tin
    7. Rohrfloete         4'  Metal, from d#2 conical, open, tin
    8. Nasat              3'  Metal, stopped with chimney,
                                 from g# wide scale, open, tin
    9. Octava             2'  English tin
   10. Tertia         1 3/5'  English tin
   11. Flageolet          1'  English tin
   12. Mixtur  IV     1 1/3'  English tin
   13. Vox humana         8'  English tin
   14. Echo Cornet        V   c1 - d3,  English tin
                                 8' rank stopped with chimney,
                                 on 2 chests behind the windchests.
     Tremulant

  Pedal: (C,D - c1 -- since 1968/69 to d1)

   Front chest:
   1. OctavBass           8'  English tin
   2. OctavBass           4'  English tin
   3. Mixtur  VI      2 2/3'  English tin
   4. TrompetenBass       8'  pearwood boots, bodies English tin
   5. ClarinBass          4'  pearwood boots, bodies English tin

   Back chest:
   6. PosaunenBass       16'  boots maple(?), bodies English tin
   7. Principalbass      16'  wood
   8. Grosser Untersatz  32'  stopped, wood

Shove-couplers for the manuals
Ventils
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