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Articles - Seewen/Welte
Items relating to the Philharmonie organ in the Hall of Auditory Arts Museum der Musikautomaten, Seewen (Solothurn/Switzerland) together with its collection of around 1,600 historic early 20th century recordings and the remarkable world of M. Welte & Söhne and organ roll recordings (these are samples only, some await further editing) Welte # 1274 - Edwin H. Lemare (1865-1934) playing from Gounod's Queen of Sheba: March and Cortege Welte # 1084 - Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) playing his own b-minor Toccata Welte # 1106 - Harry Goss-Custard (1871-1964) playing Elgar's Imperial March Opus 32 Welte # 1606 - Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) playing Fanfare by Lemmens Welte # 1991 - G. Ramin (1898-1956) playing Reger's Toccata (from Opus 129 Welte # 1083 - Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) playing César Franck's Andantino in g minor Welte # 1004: M. E. Bossi playing his own work Fatemi la grazia Welte # 1654 - Clarence Eddy playing his own Festival Prelude on the Old 100th . Welte # 1041 - Alfred Sittard playing Franck's Grande Pièce Symphonique (part II). Most of the above sound samples are an adjunct to David Rumsey's article, "Welte's Philharmonie roll recordings 1910-1928: My afternoons with Eugène Gigout" - which appeared in "The Diapason", March 2011.
Please note that, as recordings appear in the OehmsClassics "The Britannic" Organ" series in better-edited versions with full CD quality, mp3 sample versions above are removed from this site.
2011/12 MARCO ENRICO BOSSI AL "WELTE PHILARMONIE ORGEL" - an article in Italian by Nicola Cittadin (CH), published in Arte Organaria e Organistica, n.79, Anno XVIII, Aprile-Giugno 2011. See also the sound recording above
2010/11 Expanded jacket notes to OehmsClassics' Britannic Organ Volume III (released early 2011) CDs due out late 2011. Click on the flags for English, French or German versions. Titanic's final concert Published in the Sydney Organ Journal Vol 42, No. 1. Summer 2010-2011. A German translation of "Titanic's last Concert" was published in the Swiss Titanic Society's magazine, TITANIC POST, Nr. 76 June 2011. It has some additional information including a number of memorials that quote the tune "Horbury". 2010 Database of scanned Welte organ rolls held at the Museum der Musikautomaten in Seewen (interim release - revised 22nd June 2011). Available formats are Paradox (.db), QuattroPro (.qpw) and Microsoft Excel (.xls). Database of Seewen's scanned Welte organ rolls (DB) Database of Seewen's scanned Welte organ rolls (QPW) Database of Seewen's scanned Welte organ rolls (XLSX) Key to the database (PDF)
2010 A summary history of recording with special reference to historical organ recordings is available. A brief history of organ recording (PDF)
2010 Appearances by David Rumsey and other members of the "wie von Geisterhand" project team on Television: Swiss Television SF1 "Einstein" Programme of 14th January 2010 (link 1) or Swiss Television SF1 "Einstein" Programme of 14th January 2010 (link 2)2009 "Wie von Geisterhand" - ein Projekt zur Digitalisierung von Musikrollen (German only: description of the National Swiss project for the digitisation of music rolls with particular reference to Seewen's organ and its unique roll collection.) 2008 The Origins of Seewen's Welte Philharmonie ("The Diapason" - published article, English version) Herkunft der Seewener Welte-Philharmonie-Orgel (Deutsche Fassung) L'origine de l'orgue Welte-Philharmonie de Seewen (version française, 2010) 2008 L'orgue du Britannic de Seewen et ses rouleaux (Traduction par Guy Bovet pour La Tribune de l'orgue #60, 2008) The Seewen-Britannic organ and its associated rolls (English version) 2007 Appearance by David Rumsey and other members of the "wie von Geisterhand" project team on Television:
Swiss Television Cultural program of 31st October 2007 Press releases Ocean Liner Britannic's organ found (press release 24th May 2007, English) Orgel des gesunkenen Ozeanriesen Britannic entdeckt (Pressetext 24. Mai 2007, Deutsch) 2005
First published in German in 'Querstand II' (2006/7), house journal of the Anton Bruckner University, Linz, Austria. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Museum für Musikautomaten, Seewen and Nelson Barden of Boston, USA, for permission to use the sound files. 2002 "Organists on a roll" Conference paper delivered in 2002 in Arizona, "Organists on a roll - the Welte organ's mechanically-recorded performances" (updated 2010) © David Rumsey 2009, 2010 and ongoing |
