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Return after 40 years: Prof. Karl Maureen played the Sandtner organ both at the inauguration concert in 1984 and at the birthday concert on Sunday.
The instrument has 3012 pipes and 44 registers.
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The Tutzinger Sandtner organ is one of the most important instruments in the diocese of Augsburg.
For its 40th anniversary, it is to receive a typesetting system so that organists can change the timbre at the push of a button.
This requires 70,000 euros.
Tutzing
– “We celebrate our queen,” writes the Tutzing parish of St. Joseph on a current flyer.
We're talking about the Sandtner organ, which turns 40 this year.
Against this background, a series of concerts are planned (see box).
Because of its tonal diversity, the instrument with 3,012 pipes and 44 registers is one of the most important in the Diocese of Augsburg - and because of its manufacturer from Dillingen on the Danube, who is also responsible for the organs in the Augsburg Basilica, Eichstätter Cathedral and Munich St .-Michaels-Kirche is responsible: Sandtner Orgelbau.
In their big birthday year, the organists led by church musician Werner Zuber can look forward to an innovation that will make operation much easier - if the parish raises 70,000 euros for it.
Prof. Karl Maureen has played the organ in more than 1,000 locations throughout Europe - even in places where Johann Sebastian Bach personally operated.
He was a student of the virtuoso Karl Richter, performed from Scandinavia to Palermo and taught as a music professor in Augsburg until 2006.
And the 85-year-old from Munich still shows his skills, most recently on Sunday at the birthday concert for the Tutzinger Sandtner organ in St. Joseph.
In keeping with the carnival, he took things a little more relaxed and played spiritual music, but also with blues and jazz notes.
One track was called “Bishops Blues.”
“I was surprised at what a great, modern instrument it is.
It has everything you need,” Maureen told the Starnberger Merkur.
“The surround sound is excellent, the sound carries without being blurry or too short.
Precisely."
Church musician: “The organ can be played very delicately and captures every nuance”
He could be forgiven for not remembering the exact sound of the organ.
On Sunday we came full circle.
Maureen had already performed at the organ inauguration in Tutzing in 1984.
Then, as now, he needed support.
On Sunday his wife changed the registers by hand.
But the use of organist assistants, known as registrants, is set to end this year in Tutzing.
Setzeranlage is the name of the birthday present that the parish would like to give to its queen.
A computer with which the player can change the tones at the push of a button.
According to church musician Werner Zuber, the purchase cost the parish 70,000 euros.
“There are no subsidies from the diocese for this.
We are happy for every euro,” he says.
Zuber also raves about the Sandtner sound and particularly appreciates the French-romantic sound: “The organ can be played very delicately, it captures every nuance.”
By the way: 445 of the 3,012 pipes come from the previous model and therefore from 1930. The Sandtner organ was only built because the old one, which was built with the church, had become prone to failure.
She was also significantly smaller.
Due to lack of money, only eleven registers were installed instead of the planned 29, according to the orgel-information.de portal.
Anniversary events
Five more events are planned this year to mark the 40th anniversary of the Tutzinger Sandtner organ.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome.
The appointments:
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Friday, March 15th, 9 p.m.: Gallery concert under the motto “Organ up close” with Werner Zuber.
Sunday, March 17th, 5 p.m.: “The Stations of the Cross in Words & Music” for drums and organ, with Leander Kaiser, Werner Zuber and Christine Adler.
Sunday, April 28th, 5 p.m.: “The Spring Organ” with Gabriel Dessauer.
Sunday, May 12th, 7 p.m.: “The Marien Organ” with Peter Bader.
Sunday, September 29th, 7 p.m.: “The Angel Organ” with Prof. Stefan Baier.