1677/1688 Huß - Arp Schnitger Organ
Ev.-Luth. Kirche St. Cosmae et Damiani
Stade/Niedersachsen, Germany

  under construction






 Short preliminary Introduction and History

This world famous organ was built by Arp Schnitger as a master apprentice of the Huß workshop and thus is considered as his first work.
This organ represents the typical perfect North-German baroque organ and was restored by Jürgen Ahrend 1975-1993/94.
The organ has an enormous degree of authenticity with 9 original reed ranks from 1675. First organist was Vincent Lübeck!


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Recording technique
The organ was recorded in Oct./Nov. 2008 with 48 kHz, 24 bit, multi-channel for Hauptwerk 3, using the multi-release technique introduced by OrganART. The stops were recorded with multiple release levels for short, medium and long key attacks for optimal acoustical mapping.