Els orgues de Montserrat (II): des del 1811 fins al 2009

Authors

  • Ramon Oranias i Orga

Abstract

Pau Obradors built the great organ of the basilica of Montserrat in 1830. His work would be continued in time by the Majorcan Joan Puig and by Miquel Bertran. The arrival of a new director of the monastery's music school, Father Guzmán, led to installation of a new organ by Eusebi Nicolau in the church in 1890. Subsequently, the musical activity after the celebration of the millennial of the finding of the holy image of Our Lady of Montserrat prompted a new organ commissioned to Aquilino Amezua to be installed in 1896. After that, the establishment of the organ-maker Silvio Puggina in the town of Collbató led to the acquisition of a new organ for the choirboys in 1922 and Nicolau's organ was transferred to the rehearsal room of the boys' choir. The advance of the reform proposed by the Second Vatican Council caused Amezua's organ, the only one in the basilica, to be installed as the choir organ in the Lower Choir. It was reformed and enlarged by Rafael Puignau of OESA, giving it a neoclassical timbre. Following successive repairs in 1968 and 1992, this instrument was permanently removed in 2009. Mention should also be made of the two organs by Gabriel Blancafort, one in the Throne's Chapel (1969) and the other in the oratory of Saint Fructuosus (1970).

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2020-01-15

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