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It’s a must-see for all organ fans: The film ‘Heavenly Sounds - The Organ and its Fascinating Versatility’ by Peter Schlögl. This music documentary explores the sounds of Germany’s organs, from one of the oldest church organs in the world in the town of Ostönnen in Westphalia, to the late romantic organ in the Berlin Cathedral, to a milestone in contemporary organ-building: the organ in the church of St. Martin in Kassel. Virtuoso organists and organ experts present ‘their’ organs, tell us about their histories and technical details, and give us a taste of the possible sounds that this largest of instruments can make.
Due to its enormous sounds, the organ, known as the Queen of Instruments, remains enduringly fascinating to this day. The Deutscher Musikrat, part of the International Music Council, made the organ ‘instrument of the year’ in 2021.
(00:00) Music excerpt:
Georg Muffat (1653 - 1704)
Passacaglia
From: Apparatus musico-organisticus
Andreas Sieling, organ
Played live on 30 June 2021 in the Berlin Cathedral
(01:15) Music excerpt:
Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’, Op. 95
II. Largo (arranged for organ)
Hannes Ludwig, organ
Played live on 1 July 2021 in the Marienkirche, Prenzlau
(02:12) Joachimsthal/Kreuzkirche: Organ from 1820 built by Johann Tobias Turley (1773 - 1829)
(04:22) Music excerpt:
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier (1734 - 1794)
Rondo
Christoph Hauser, organ
Played live on 21 June 2021 in der Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Fürstenfeldbruck
(04:22) Fürstenfeldbruck/St. Mary of the Assumption: Organ from 1736 built by Johann Georg Fux (1651 - 1738)
(05:46) Music excerpt:
Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784)
Organ Sonata in F major (B.4.I.12)
III. Grave
Christoph Hauser, organ
Played live on 21 June 2021 in der Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Fürstenfeldbruck
(08:34) Visiting the workshop of organ builder Christoph Kaps in Munich
(11:03) Music excerpt:
Antonio de Cabezon (1510 - 1566)
Hymn ‘Ave maris stella‘ 1
Léon Berben, organ
Played live on 24 June 2021 in the St. Andreas Church, Ostönnen/Soest
(11:03) Ostönnen/St. Andreas: Organ from 1721 with parts from 1425
(12:26) Music excerpt:
Antonio de Cabezon (1510 - 1566)
Hymn ‘Ave maris stella‘ 1
Léon Berben, organ
Played live on 24 June 2021 in the St. Andreas Church, Ostönnen/Soest
(13:31) Music excerpt:
Antonio de Cabezon (1510 - 1566)
Hymn ‘Ave maris stella‘ 1
Léon Berben, organ
Played live on 24 June 2021 in the St. Andreas Church, Ostönnen/Soest
(14:22) Berlin Cathedral: Organ from 1905 built by Wilhelm Sauer
(15:43) Music excerpt:
Georg Muffat (1653 - 1704)
Passacaglia
From: Apparatus musico-organisticus
Andreas Sieling, organ
Played live on 30 June 2021in the Berlin Cathedral
(17:07) Kassel/St. Martin: A 2017 organ built by the Austrian company Rieger
(18:59) Music excerpt:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, 'Dorische', BWV 538
Eckhard Manz, organ
Played live on 23 June 2021 in St. Martin, Kassel
(19:58) Music excerpt:
Antonio de Cabezon (1510 - 1566)
Hymnus ‘Ave maris stella‘ 1
Léon Berben, organ
Played live on 24 June 2021 in the St. Andreas Church, Ostönnen/Soest
(22:53) Kassel/St. Martin: A 2021 organ for anyone to try out and experiment on
(25:03) Music excerpt:
Georg Muffat (1653 - 1704)
Passacaglia
From: Apparatus musico-organisticus
Andreas Sieling, organ
Played live on 30 June 2021 in the Berlin Cathedral
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@OrganNLou 2 жыл бұрын

THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS!!! (Great documentary!)

@sarahwarner6917 2 жыл бұрын

As a young organist and apprentice builder I always appreciate it when videos like this one give the general public a little insight as to how majestic and powerful the organ really is 🎶 😁!

@dbertobis 2 жыл бұрын

It’s just a marvelous instrument. And it’s almost incredible that nowadays there’s still people who care about them. There’s hope

@tom7601 2 жыл бұрын

The King of Instruments everywhere in the world except Germany? Got it!

@bio7738 2 жыл бұрын

Well, because the noun Orgel is feminine in German „die Orgel“ not „der Orgel“. So it would be extremely bizarre and grammatically wrong to refer to it as „the king of instruments“ in German. The reporter, however should be aware of this difference and translate correctly.

@ichi_san 2 ай бұрын

I love the organ. One of the most beautiful instruments around. Thank you for such an insightful documentary

@skn9895 2 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed that the Berliner Dom and it's organ weren't destroyed during the bombing raids. Sadly the great Silbermann organ in Dresden's Frauenkirche, once played by Bach himself, was destroyed this way.

@richardharrold9736 2 жыл бұрын

The Berlinerdom was heavily damaged, but the organ was untouched. The dome wasn't reinstated until the 1990s, the organ was exposed to rain and pigeons, but that spared it the ravages of the Orgelbewegung and enabled it to survive untouched until it was restored exactly "as was". Few German romantic organs of that size survive - not just because of the war, but because of the neo-baroque reform movement - so its survival is all the more remarkable and precious.

@leopardtiger1022 2 жыл бұрын

DW documentaries are Gold wert. Very good.

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Dear leopard tiger, Thank you for your lovely comment! 😊🙏

@zoomzoom3950 2 жыл бұрын

"To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments." - W. A. Mozart Other than the DW narrator, I've never heard the organ referred to as a "queen" of instruments? And, the oldest working organ in the world is in the Basilica of Valère in Sion, Switzerland ; some of the working components date back to the 14th century AD.

@anabarba2666 7 ай бұрын

Hello! It is because in German, the word for Organ, “Orgel”, is feminine (die Orgel), so that kinda makes it the queen rather the king 😊

@grahaml3449 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. The unstated problem, of course is that Germany, along with Netherlands and others, has this rich treasury of historical instruments, really the focus of their cultural heritage. However, fewer people actually go to the churches now, as secularity is the "new religion". So funds are lacking to maintain and restore these magnificent instruments. I hope we can avoid just tossing these away as the buildings are turned into coffee shops and flea markets.

@sarahwarner6917 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. That reminds me of what happened to some of the French organs during Napoleon’s reign, since the Church or its concept did not fit in with Napoleon’s Enlightenment ideology of progress, reason, and change 😕. Luckily, the beautiful Cavaillé Coll organ at Notre Dame de Paris survived.

@richardharrold9736 2 жыл бұрын

Redundancy need not mean the death of the building or the organ in it. St Mary's Shrewsbury is a good example - the church is busier and the organ better used now under a secular trust than it had been in a long time under the Church of England.

@ritahorvath8207 2 жыл бұрын

Was für ein Reichtum. Möge das Christentum erhalten bleiben . ✝️

@OWR_Mission 6 ай бұрын

I prefer subtitles. Great documentary!

@bicyclist2 2 жыл бұрын

I love pipe organs. This is a great documentary. Thank you.

@glennlopez6772 2 жыл бұрын

A great instrument! Could the church survive without the organ builders! If you owned one of these it could be called "a vulgar display of wealth! Admire the German organ builders!

@OWOT-re5jf 2 жыл бұрын

Cool and talented organists

@miguelrivera1942 2 жыл бұрын

Musica celestial.

@jkgou1 2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Thank you very much for the great detail description of organ tradition and recent development.

@markcooke729 2 жыл бұрын

The Queen of instruments? Get your facts right! The organ is the KING of instruments as quoted by Mozart.

@s.eckert2682 2 жыл бұрын

Well, as the German language is encumbered with specifically gendered articles ( der - male, die - female, das - neutral), and an organ is female (die Orgel), it has to be the Queen of instruments. Don't know about the Mozart quote, just trying to explain that king doesn't make sense here.

@jimshaw899 2 жыл бұрын

@@s.eckert2682 Mozart spoke primarily German. And He called it King. Poor sod, Mozart knew nothing, eh?

@s.eckert2682 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimshaw899 Yes, I looked up the quotation, I guess a queen just didn't have the same value, being merely a female, sigh.

@jimshaw899 2 жыл бұрын

@@s.eckert2682 Don't make it sexist. Just get the quote correct. It's not: "A Jeep, a Jeep, my kingdom for a Jeep..."

@s.eckert2682 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimshaw899 Oh, I didn't mean to be overly feminist, just that Mozart was a product of his time and place. Had he lived in Great Britain under Queen Elizabeth, he might have said "queen" after all.

@juanmauricioperez2036 2 жыл бұрын

THE MOST INCREDIBLE INSTRUMENT

@michaelthoma-c-m6238 2 жыл бұрын

schöne impressionen aus der orgellandschaft deutschlands! danke an dw classial music und alle organistinnen und organisten die dieses amt versehen

@joyjoy-gr6qr 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for sharing the precious organ documentary

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

With pleasure! We're glad you liked it! 😊

@anatoliimarshalov1745 2 жыл бұрын

Ничто не сравнится с величием и красотой звучания хорошего органа в хорошей акустике собора! Все иное кажется преходящим, временным, суетным и шумным ...

@louispitagno9422 2 жыл бұрын

Lets be proud of our history, our religion, our magnificent organs. They moved our ancestors souls. Let us not forget them

@rebanelson607 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a beautiful and educational film. I enjoyed it immensely!

@Tom-Lahaye 2 жыл бұрын

I will take the sound of the Osttönnen organ over every other instrument in this documentary, it has such a nice timbre.

@user-be8wr4jj1q 2 жыл бұрын

Супер видео кайф от музыки 🍑 🍒 🍓 🍎 🍇

@franomilic Жыл бұрын

Interesting documentary! Thanks for creating it!

@DWClassicalMusic Жыл бұрын

We're glad you liked it! 🥰

@barbaradreshsel8619 2 жыл бұрын

Beeindruckend

@legbag Жыл бұрын

Great documentary!

@shammianand6980 2 жыл бұрын

magnifique

@marcelobrunorodrigues7630 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done documentary! Congratulations to the Deutsche Welle team!

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

@Marcelo Bruno Rodrigues Thank you for your high praise! 😊

@abbofun9022 2 жыл бұрын

One doesn’t play an instrument, one plays a building. . .

@janholstein 2 жыл бұрын

Great video that shows the richness of sound & all the posibilities of the organ! If I may correct you: The excerpt of Bach at minute 19:00 comes from the Dorian Toccata, BWV 538.

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Jan Holstein, Thank you very much for pointing this out. We have now corrected this in the description box, so that all following viewers have the correct information about the piece. If you find errors in our information, please continue to point them out to us. Stay tuned!!

@Bizarro_na_chapa 2 жыл бұрын

I would suggest Europe to keep safe its traditions and memories before they will become only memories as seems to be the trend

@orb3796 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bizarro_na_chapa Stop playing the victim. Europe is a perpetrator of violence, not a victim of it.

@Bizarro_na_chapa 2 жыл бұрын

@@orb3796 i am not talking about violence, i am talking about culture... but whatever the orbit you are in... you are just peripheric

@sergioavalos9343 2 жыл бұрын

Excelente

@cubessopranista8772 6 ай бұрын

Try the unique bamboo organ of Las Piñas in the Philippines with its cool mellow sound.

@enneaf1676 2 жыл бұрын

the organ they are talking about at 12:04 isn't the oldest organ....the oldest is located in the Valere Basilica in Sion, Switzerland, dating back to 1390

@hilbert2547 2 жыл бұрын

no 1435

@jimenahuenchupan6026 2 жыл бұрын

Pongalo en español por favor.

@toddavis8603 2 жыл бұрын

I filled in when organist was out, and this video was fascinating!"All Saints Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran.Brooklyn New York.◇Psalm 100◇

@gert.ronner 2 жыл бұрын

The music @4:22 is definitely not Muffat. I would like to know what it is though!

@jakobcallsen540 2 жыл бұрын

I would also really like to know the name of that piece!

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

@@jakobcallsen540 Thanks for the tip! We have corrected that in the description box. The piece is: Rondo by Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! We have corrected that in the description box. The piece is: Rondo by Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier

@jakobcallsen540 Жыл бұрын

@@DWClassicalMusic I keep coming back to this documentary just for this piece, and cant seem to find it under the given name:( If it is not too late, maybe you could double-check if that is really the right piece or maybe give me a link; I would hugely appreciate it!

@gesakrieg2139 2 жыл бұрын

Prenzlau , soviel Respekt muß sein

@maryvonnelecaplain2665 2 жыл бұрын

Musique céleste !

@stephenrouse2493 2 жыл бұрын

I have never heard it referred to as the Queen of instruments! How ridiculous. Everyone knows it's the KING of instruments!

@Soordhin 2 жыл бұрын

Well, the organ is female in the german language (die Orgel), which of course precludes it from being the king, but it certainly can be the queen.

@vaughangarrick 2 жыл бұрын

@@Soordhin yet mozart called it king...what language did he speak?

@Soordhin 2 жыл бұрын

@@vaughangarrick Technically Austrian. Which is a subspecies of german, but so much its own that a friend of mine actually needed an official translation of his drivers license into german (before the EU one was on the scene). By the way, Mozart called the organ the queen of instruments in a letter to his father ("Die Königin aller Instrumente").

@y11971alex 2 жыл бұрын

@@Soordhin I think it was Guillaume de Machaut who called the organ the “king of instruments”.

@vaughangarrick 2 жыл бұрын

@@Soordhin aah thank you 😊

@janetdavis774 2 жыл бұрын

My mother played at that church for years

@nfwqhrfh 2 жыл бұрын

Not the queen of instruments, but the king of instruments!

@bennaarsongidi9269 2 жыл бұрын

I found that abit suspicious too . Enough of the gender trifles , good lady

@frisoer100 2 жыл бұрын

Once again: It's female in German, so it's a queen. For us;)

@WinrichNaujoks 2 жыл бұрын

01:40 The big girl being soundly asleep in her deck chair, the lad next to her playing with his mobile phone. That's the state of affairs.

@eliasbixl 2 жыл бұрын

What is the music excerpt at 05:50? I doesn’t think it’s Muffats Toccata Tertia, like the description it says.

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment. You are absolutely right, it is not a piece by Muffat. Instead it is: Giovanni Battista Martini: Organ Sonata in F major / III. Grave Thanks to your hint we were able to correct the mistake.

@jerlatti 2 жыл бұрын

I don't seem to recall which chaconne / passacaglia this is. Is it Handel? Is it French but I forgot (beginning and end of the documentary).

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Andreas Sieling plays this piece at the beginning and end of the documentary: Georg Muffat: Passacaglia From: Apparatus musico-organisticus

@baxter5431 2 жыл бұрын

Always heard it referred to as "King" of instruments, not queen.

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment. Indeed, in English, the organ is called the "King of instruments“. Our documentary was filmed in Germany, and in German the word organ is feminine which explaines why the organ is called the "Queen of instruments“ here.

@shiralikerim1781 2 жыл бұрын

👏👍👏

@jacquespotgieter7005 2 жыл бұрын

The organ is traditionally referred to as the king of instruments, not queen of instruments (no misogyny intended).

@frisoer100 2 жыл бұрын

In German organs are female, so "queen" is correct;)

@jacquespotgieter7005 2 жыл бұрын

@@frisoer100 Now I am totally confused. It was Mozart himself that "coined" the name: "King of Instruments".

@sarahwarner6917 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacquespotgieter7005 Yes, I heard the same thing but I think Frisoer100 is on to something. In Deutsch nouns have either a masculine, feminine, or neuter modifier in front of them. For instance the organ translated in German is Die Orgel. Die is feminine whereas Der is masculine and Das is neuter. The same is true for the word church in German it’s a feminine noun, Die Kirche.

@jacquespotgieter7005 2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahwarner6917 Thanks for the explanation. So do you think Mozart might have said something to the effect of "she is the king of instruments" perhaps jokingly ?

@sarahwarner6917 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacquespotgieter7005 Ur welcome. Lol, you know IDK 🤷‍♀️. Judging from Mozart‘s carefree attitude it’s possible he might have said the King of Instruments as a pun on the German grammar, knowing full well Die Orgel is feminine. But that is just speculation on my part. 🤔 Either way I‘ve never played an instrument as massive, complex, transcendent, & as beautiful as the organ. Mozart was onto something!

@radishpineapple74 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that "ultramodern" organ was just... awful. Just awful. And the glass hallway going into the church? Another travesty.

@louispitagno9422 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Just so unsettlingly ugly

@Boelinger32 2 жыл бұрын

Wo gibts die deutsche version?

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Die deutsche Version der Doku gibt es hier: www.dw.com/de/glaubenssachen-kl%C3%A4nge-die-zum-himmel-steigen-faszination-orgel/av-59389152

@JanPBtest 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's been called the king of instruments. Not sure why.

@harmvb3660 2 жыл бұрын

13:59 am i the only one that sees those letters moving??

@mashy712 Жыл бұрын

Looks like a signal static, usually when watching cable TV.

@chrishopewynne2845 2 жыл бұрын

If The Organ is The Queen of instruments which is the King?? Why describe it as The Queen ?

@mysticalglowtv1796 2 жыл бұрын

As amazing as they are what's more amazing and important is knowing the Lord God Almighty. Come to Christ. Be washed of your sins and live for him.

@Ogurets123 11 ай бұрын

I wish you would subtitle instead of also dubbing in English. I find it very tiring to listen to and would rather have the original German.

@deanschulze3129 2 жыл бұрын

If the organ is the queen of instruments what is the king of instruments? Maybe the narrator is a jealous violinist.

@sarahwarner6917 2 жыл бұрын

Lol, I was wondering about that too! I know Mozart called the Die Orgel the king of instruments which has stuck with it throughout the years. This was the first time I’ve heard it called the queen of instruments.

@MrMarcvus 2 жыл бұрын

These instruments at the church of St Martin horrible! Only good for monster music!

@DavidMaurand 2 жыл бұрын

is the 'queen of instruments' a result of grammatical gender? It must be die Orgel, auf Deutsch. here in the English speaking world we call it the 'king of instruments'

@DWClassicalMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Indeed, our documentary was filmed in Germany, in German the word organ is feminine and they call the organ the „Queen of instruments“. In English, the organ is called the „King of instruments“.

@johndowd8990 2 жыл бұрын

Randwick church

@guylaurie819 2 жыл бұрын

The queen of instruments? Are you kidding me? What a load of piffle.

@samoinborut1339 2 жыл бұрын

Not really old. Rebuild after the Second World War.

@jeremyreis8646 2 ай бұрын

Excuse me the Organ is the KING of instruments not the Queen... enough with this WOKE b.s.

@rudigerk Ай бұрын

This is a german Documentary and in german the Organ is feminine, thus this is simply a literal translation = Königin der Instrumente = Queen of Instruments.