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| Source : "2000 ans d'orgues de Gérard Louis" From Ktésibios to Jean-Sébastien Bach | "From Ktésibios to Jean-Sébastien Bach" book |
This map represents ancient sites where antique organs sculptures were found. In Aquincum, close from Budapest, was found real parts of an antique Pipe Organ. Aquincum was an old roman military facility, situated on the extreme borders of RomanEmpire. This organ had air blowers. At present a reconstitution has been made by Gérard Louis, author of the book mentionned above. It
is very sensitive to discover Sabine, a young singer-organist who lived
in Aquincum. She was married to T. Aelius Justus, military organist in Aquincum. It
is mentionned that : "Her voice was délicious et her fingers knowed how
to play. She performed many pleasant concerts dans d'agréables
concerts
with hydraulic organs. Be happy, Aelia, you whi is reading this, Do God preserves you." All
these organs were destroyed by the first Christian Church Founders,
who
considered organ as a paganist instrument, so to be suppressed
sytematically. That is the reason why organs disappeared completely in
the Christian Occident, roughly up to the Xth century. Except in the
Oriental part of the Christian Empire (Bysance). Then during the XIVth
century, English people built a Pipe Organ in Westminster Abbey. German
people built simultaneously an organ in Halberstadt. Since
this event, French Bishops ordered massively Pipe Organs for
their respective cathédrals. In France, Pipe Organs suffered a lot from the part of the french revolution. Many organs (and also churches) were burned and destroyed. Indeed they were considered as issued of the "ancien régime". At last, at present, in France, organs are only visible for the large public in churches. Consequently, many french people dislike this instrument, as they thought wrongly that it is an invention of the christian church. Ignoring that organs have been forbidden by this same church during 14 seculars and that his invention began 5000 years befor Christ. | For
information, St Maximin is the 3rd Grave of the Christian Church, after
Jerusalem and Rome. St Maximin is only 25 km from Rians. Antique Graves with Pipe Organ Sculptures are still visible. (from 1 to 2 seculars before Christ). |