About the organ in Olkusz and restoration has been published a wonderful book in full colour. The parish church in Olkusz is home to the largest and best-preserved organ from the early 17th century in Poland. Between 1611 and 1631, Hans Hummel and his pupil Georg Nitrowski the Elder created a work there between 1611 and 1631 whose technical and tonal characteristics formed the starting point for a long line of tradition in organ building.
The organ building dynasties that followed those of Hummel Nitrowski and Brandtner produced instruments for churches of various denominations in the 17th and 18th centuries and language communities of the territory of the First Polish Republic and beyond, from Spiš to the mouth of the Vistula. In the previous classifications of European organ-building schools, this type of instrument with its characteristic with its characteristic features.
The bilingual monograph (German, Polish) documents the restoration of the instrument in Olkusz by Flentrop Orgelbouw B.V. (Zaandam), deals with all technical aspects of organ building of the instrument family and, on the basis of archival and field research, provides catalogues of works for the seven organ builders of the Hummel-Nitrowski-
Brandtner school as well as further attributions.
With contributions by (among others):
- Erik Winkel en Ross Luescher (Flentrop Orgelbouw)
- Krzysztof Urbaniak
- Dorothea Schröder.
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Die Orgel der Pfarrkirche in Olkusz. Hans Hummel und seine Schule | Organy fary
olkuskiej. Hans Hummel i jego szkoła Krzysztof Urbaniak, red.
978-3-937788-80-7
Softcover, geheel in vier kleuren, vol. 1 280 pages, vol. 2 468 pages
