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The Organ: Recent History
Twenty-three years later, in 1996, with the sponsorship of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, it was the German organ builder Gerhard Grenzing who undertook a major renovation, applying the most modern technologies to the instrument and laying the foundations for an ambitious project.We are now covering the 3rd phase of this project, which consists of returning to the multi-secular tradition of two large independent organs: one baroque (Antigua side) with its own console and mechanical system, and the other romantic-symphonic, which can, however, be operated jointly from the current electric console, which is already prepared for this purpose.
This is undoubtedly an ambitious undertaking, which will constitute one of the most important instrumental complexes in Europe. But the cathedral organ, converted by its own merits, by its size and the quality of its services, into an omnipresent and irreplaceable instrument in any ceremony or event of certain importance, deserves to be at the height that corresponds to the great and impartial Cathedral of Seville. I would love to see it finished. But now it is Sevilla who has the floor. At the moment we are covering phases.
Pipe organ
The organ, that imposing and majestic instrument, which we find in so many Christian temples; and which, like the human body has a brain (the console with its keyboards and handles), which governs and governs all its elements; a nervous system, through which the brain sends its orders to the rest of the organism; lungs (the air reservoirs, fed today by a motor); and a respiratory system, which, through arteries and veins (the ducts), carries the air from the lungs to the last of its cells (the sound tubes); it only needs a breath of the soul of an organist to receive life; and it can, tuning with it, speak, sing, cry, laugh, console, encourage ….. and pray.
Hence, the Second Vatican Council, in its “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy”, asks that “the pipe organ should be held in high esteem…the sound of which can bring a remarkable splendor to ecclesiastical ceremonies and powerfully lift souls to God and to heavenly realities” (no. 120).
