DREAM ORGANS


Gothic organ case

 


            JULIAN RHODES'
            IMAGINARY ORGANS






Introduction to Imaginary Organs
Chesterfield


RECENT ADDITIONS:
Battle Abbey III/30
Lucerne Organ III/80
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton III/41
Holywell Cross Chapel, Chesterfield III/36 & III/45
Three stoplists after Father Willis:  Country house organs IV/32 & IV/35; Chesterfield Parish Church III/46
Haarlem: an English organist's dream, 1850 - VI/117
All Souls, Eastbourne IV/48
The Organ in St. Jerome's Study III/9
Music-room organ after Esaias Compenius II/24
Autumn evening organ, Bexhill III/23
Eastbourne Organ III/52


SECULAR BUILDINGS:
Two Modernist Residence Organs III/12 & III/18
Palazzo Reale, Caserta II/19
Concert Organ III/35
Modernist Concert Organ III/38
National Edifice, Hyde Park IV/41
Contemporary Concert Organ IV/55
Grosses Schauspielhaus, Berlin IV/82
Domestic Organ, Bruges Style IV/88
After Boston Music Hall IV/92
Concert Organ, Bruges Style IV/96
Large (digital) Concert-Hall Organ IV-V/145
Royal Albert Hall, London V/152
Country House Organ V/167


CHURCH BUILDINGS:
Calow Parish Church III/10 & III/12
Brewery Street Baptist Chapel, Chesterfield IV/15 & IV/17 & II/18
St. Leonards Baptist Chapel III/20
'Neunen Chapel' by Van Gogh III/21
Alfriston Parish Church, Sussex III/28
St. Olave, Woodbury Down, London III/31
St. Thomas, Brampton III/31
Jutfaas IV/34
St. Bride, Fleet Street c.1900 IV/39
Our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne III/43
St. Paul, St. Leonards IV/43
Christ Church, St. Leonards: c.1905 III/44 & c.1940 III/54 & c.2000 V/52
Anglican High-Church Organ III/46
Pan-European Church Organ III/56
Norwich Catholic Cathedral IV/62
White Chapel, Whatlington IV/65
St. Peter, Bohemia c.1885 IV/54 & today IV/60
Canterbury Cathedral IV-V/105
Henry Clutton's Westminster Cathedral 1867 V/117
Lutyens' Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, c.1930 V/170


PLACES:
Chesterfield Organ c.1960 II/30


NATURE:
Two organs designed on hills:  Air Organ, Hastings III/20; Wooded Hill Organ, Devon III/41
Sea Organ, Hastings Style III/22
Moon Organ III/25
Yesodic Organ III/32


CONCEPTS:
Avant-Garde Multim-in-Parvo II/17
Three Monadic Organs: Mythological I/23; Fenton House I/31; Saltergate Chapel I-II/19
Art-Nouveau Organ IV/20
Two Francophile organs II/21 and III/37
Band/Street Organ III/31
English Gothic Organ c.1830 III/36
After 18th-century South German Organs III/37
St. Olave, Southwark II/36
Three English Organs III/39 & III/37 & IV/39
After 18th-century Spanish Organs III/46
Organ with Latin stop-names V/48
19th-Century Dutch Organ III/55
French Baroque Apotheosis VI/142
Cross-Shaped Organ V/578
Ozymandias (concrete poetry)


AFTER ORGAN BUILDERS:
Modern organ after Compenius III/66
T.C. Lewis Reed-Organ III/71
After Robert Hope-Jones IV/80
Renautus Harris's proposal for St. Paul's Cathedral, 1712 VI/92


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Illustration:
Design for a Gothic organ-case from 'Church Organs', F.H. Sutton 1872





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