Pipe organs speak, but what do they say? In this symposium we delve into life around pipe organs. What have they represented, how have they been used and what can they tell us today?

For centuries, the pipe organ has provided the soundtrack for much of European life. In Northern Europe, the 17th and 18th century saw the birth of a vibrant organ culture. By studying it, can we better understand the voice of the instrument in the culture of today?

Saturday, October 22, 2022
Jonsereds Herrgård 08:45–16:00

Are you interested in participating? Send an e-mail expressing your interest to jonseredsherrgard@gu.se with information about your organisation, your role within it and your interest in the field.

PROGRAMME

(Held in English)

08:45
Coffee

09:00
Introduction
Lena Ulrika Rudeke, Jonsered Manor, and Sverker Jullander, Göteborg International Organ Academy

09:15
18th-century Swedish organ culture: a project in collaboration between the Swedish National Heritage
Board and the Göteborg International Organ Academy
Hans Davidsson

09:30
The organ and church music in 18th-century Sweden
Maria Schildt

09:45
Organ repertoire in 18th-century Sweden
Jonas Lundblad

10:00
Organ sermons from the 17th and 18th centuries
Mattias Lundberg

10.15
Open discussion

10:40
Johann Kuhnau’s Biblical Sonatas
Joel Speerstra

10:55
Cantata Texts, Poetic Techniques, and Meanings in the Time of Kuhnau and Bach
Ruth Tatlow

11:10
Open discussion

12:00
LUNCH

13:00
In search of the later 18th-century organist
Annette Richards

13:15
Sung text at the organ? Evocations of the voice in Michael Praetorius’s organ music
Anna Steppler

13:30
Rediscovering the voice of the sixteenth-century organ in the British Isles
Andrew McCrea

13:45
Covent Garden and Sans Souci: two contrasting examples of claviorgans in London theatres
Eleanor Smith

14:00
Open discussion

14:30
Transport to Jonsered Church

15:00
Organ recital at the 1783 Schiörlin organ of Jonsered Church
Works by Cabezón, Cavazzoni, Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, J. S. Bach and others
Kimberly Marshall

ORGANIZERS
Göteborg International Organ Academy
The University of Gothenburg:

Academy of Music and Drama

Jonsered Manor –

Intellectual venue for collaboration at the University of Gothenburg

www.gu.se/jonsereds-herrgard