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Hardback. New. Aristide Cavaillé-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. Cavaillé-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. Cavaillé-Coll's model for that organ and the book he wrote outlining his proposal are the core of Ebrecht's discussion. Cavaillé-Coll bestrode a century as well as an art-form. His century complicated the project with the most intricate, intractable…
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Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All Hardcover - 2011
by Ronald Ebrecht
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- Title Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All
- Author Ronald Ebrecht
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Lexington Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780739167281 / 0739167286
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7.1 x 0.8 in (25.40 x 18.03 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Organ (Musical instrument) - Construction, Organ builders
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011031872
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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