Abbot Innocent Fritsch (1727-1734) ordered the organs to be made by the famous Wrocław organ builder – Michał Engler (1688-1760) who built 29 such instruments in Czech and Silesia area. Construction work took him 3 years. On the 8th of December 1736 the instrument was released for liturgical use. The organs were equipped with three manuals, 2606 pipes, 50 registers and 7 box shaped flat bolt windchests for collection of air under the pipes.
Late Baroque, two storey organ front by A. Dorazil complements the external decoration of the Krzeszów instrument. He placed four large, winged figures on thirteen rollers. Their role is to support the pipe towers. There are numerous sculptures of musical angels on the cornice crowning the front.
The figural sculpture of a group of musical angels matches the iconographic form of the organ front, formulated by the text of Psalms 95 and 150 which are the apotheosis of the instrumental and vocal music Laudate Dominium – as art practised for the glory of God. The text of psalms in Latin is placed on five decorative cartouches on the organ front.
See other monuments in the category: Sculpture
Bas-relief cartouche with an allegory of the Catholic Church
Poland, Wroclaw
Saint George slaying the dragon
Wroclaw, Poland
Beautiful Madonna of Gdańsk
Gdansk, Poland
The Main Altar
Lviv, Ukraine
Holy Water Font
Krzeszow, Poland
The Organ
Poland, Swieta Lipka
Sarcophagus of Bolko II the Small
Krzeszow, Poland
Płock Doors
Plock, Poland
Discobolus
Szczecin, Poland
What is a gigapixel?
Gigapixel HDR photography - images with a resolution of more than 1 billion pixels, allowing us to image a large historic object. The end result is that we can view the object in its entirety, while being able to zoom in and view any detail of the photographed object, 'like under a magnifying glass', without losing focus of the detail being viewed.
Press the Esc key to exit full screen mode
What is a gigapanorama?
HDR spherical gigapanorama - panoramic images covering a full 360° view horizontally and 180° vertically at a resolution of more than 1 billion pixels, allowing a high tonal range image to be displayed, showing detail in both very bright and dark areas.
Press the Esc key to exit full screen mode
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)
)