Pipe Organ

Abbot Innocenty Fritsch (1655–1734) commissioned the construction of the organ from the famous Wrocław organ builder, Michał Engler the Younger (1688–1760), who built 29 instruments across Bohemia and Silesia. The construction work took the master four years, and the instrument was put into liturgical use on December 8, 1736. The organ was equipped with three manuals, a pedal keyboard, 2,758 pipes, 50 stops, and 14 wind chests with slider chests in the shape of boxes used to collect air under the pipes.

The entire mechanism that distributes air from the bellows to the pipes (the so-called action) is original, making this organ the best-preserved historical instrument in the churches of Silesia.

The external decoration of the Krzeszów instrument is completed by a late Baroque two-tiered organ case designed by A. Dorazil, featuring elements of Regency and Rococo styles. He placed four powerful winged figures on thirteen rollers, which serve as supports bearing the pipe towers. Numerous sculptures of musical angels are located on the cornice crowning the prospect.

The figurative sculpture ensemble of musical angels follows the iconographic program of the organ prospect, formulated by the texts of Psalms 95 and 150, which are an apotheosis of instrumental-vocal music, “Laudate Dominum” – as an art practiced for the glory of God. The text of the Psalms in Latin is inscribed on five decorative cartouches located on the prospect.