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Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome - Bigger Than Them All (Hardcover)
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Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome - Bigger Than Them All (Hardcover)
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Aristide Cavaille-Coll (1811-1899) is often referred to as the
greatest organ builder of all time. The pipe-organ, being the most
complicated musical instrument mechanically and tonally, as well as
the most expensive, adds significantly to that world's greatest
designation. The talents required to be such a person range far
from music-making to advanced physics, architecture, and
engineering. That, plus the obvious knack to raise vast sums of
money. Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's,
Rome: Bigger Than Them All, by Ronald Ebrecht, is the story of the
quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the
biggest church at the time. Cavaille-Coll's model for that organ
and the book he wrote outlining his proposal are the core of
Ebrecht's discussion. Cavaille-Coll bestrode a century as well as
an art-form. His century complicated the project with the most
intricate, intractable problems. Saint-Peter's Square, now a part
of the Vatican City State, was then part of the newly-united Italy,
which had just deposed the pope as ruler of the center of Italy and
taken the papal lands. The east end of the basilica facing the
square and the Tiber became a much disputed boundary. It was a part
of the Italian state so hotly contested that the Italian
Republicans would not accept the concept of an organ hanged from
the basilica wall, lest it shift. Before, or since, has the music
sphere ever provoked such a question that could bring nations to
swords?
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