A 14-Part Feature Series as an Introduction
Not only for specialists, but also expressly for laypersons.
Disposition Klais 2016
Overview with all titles
1. The genesis of the 2016 Klais organ
Feature 1
2. The technical equipment of the console
Feature 2
3. Four sound groups
Each group has unique stops with special names
Where does the Quintatön register belong?
Feature 3
4. The inner workings of this organ
Feature 4
5. A new understanding of the organ:
Vertical understanding of sound vs. horizontal understanding of sound
Feature 5
6. Vocal and instrumental understanding of sound
Feature 6
7. Touch, articulation and dynamics
Bach’s ideal is the cantabile playing style
Feature 7
8. Colours and shapes
Feature 8
9. Three sound styles in Europe
Are they in opposition to each other or in connection with each other?
A little sound story
Feature 9
10. The so-called »foreign effect« and:
Why did contemporaries shake their heads when they saw Bach choose stops at the organ, but agreed with it as soon as they heard it?
Feature 10
11. Key sounds // Bridging registers between Baroque and Romanticism // Border regions
Feature 11
12. So what is the art of registration?
Feature 12
13. The »foreign effect« as a harbinger of the register crescendo
From the 18th century onwards, the organ took over the monasterymusic in some places.
The role of the orchestra. Was the organ the harbinger of the laterorchestral crescendo?
Or has the organ, as some claim, become a decadent imitation of theorchestra?
Feature 13
14. The organ of the future – can there still be new, unheard-of sounds?
Feature 14