PT Journal
AU Kratky, J
SO Pruzkumy pamatek
PY 2018
BP 103
EP 112
VL 25
IS 1
DI 10.56112/pp.2018.1.07
WP https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-201801-0007.php
DE Pipe organ; history of pipe organ making; Rieger; Silesia; cone valve chest
SN 12121487
AB In 1843, the founder of Krnov pipe organ company, Franz Rieger (1812-1885), who worked in Sosnova, proposed construction of a new pipe organ with twelve registers (see Appendix no. 1). Although this proposal did not materialise, in 1873 Franz Rieger and his son provided a description of the current pipe organ along with the realised proposal for the construction of a new pipe organ with cone valve chests (see Appendix no. 2). Marked as the second opus of the Rieger Company in Krnov, this pipe organ has survived without major changes and represents a milestone in the development of the pipe organ production because of its status as the first remaining pipe organ with cone valve chests produced in the Czech lands.
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