AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Seminars are open to registered participants of the Organ Festival.
Day passes are available for 550 SEK.
14:15 A short introduction (in Swedish)
14:30 Visions of Jerusalem's Temple in Seventeenth Century Keyboard Collections
Presenter: Joel Speerstra
Johann Kuhnau and Visions of the Temple of Solomon
Juan Bautista Villalpando’s 1604 masterpiece of visionary architecture Ezechielem Explanationes was a landmark publication that influenced art, architecture, and music throughout the 17th century. Villalpando collaborated with his master on the building of the Escorial Palace outside Madrid, Phillip II’s own vision of Solomon’s Temple. This building and the book that followed resonate throughout the 17th century. Our exploration will look at visual and musical resonances from church architecture and book illustrations to the remarkable model of the Temple built for the Hamburg Opera still preserved in the Hamburg Museum of History. We end this part of the seminar with a speculative new reading of Johan Kuhnau’s Frische Clavier-Früchte from 1696 and suggest it is his own vision of the Temple in number, proportion, emblem, and music.
16:00 Vision of Organ Sound; A New Recording Resource of the Historical Organs in Northern Germany
Presenter: Harald Vogel
Presentation of a collection of sound recordings, spanning six decades, which represent a substantial part of Harald Vogel’s life’s work. It highlights significant historical organs and new instruments that have profoundly shaped the revival of performance and reception of early music:
16:45 A glimpse of SONORA, Eleanor Smith-Guido, Fredrik Tobin-Dodd and Paul Peeters
Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 8-19, 2025
A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All!
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