Chellan Hoffman, Curator
In 2001 the University of Calgary commissioned the world-renowned German organ builder Jürgen Ahrend to design and construct an organ for the Eckhardt-Gramatté Recital Hall at the University's Rozsa Centre for Music and International Understanding.
In July and August 2006, a team from the Ahrend workshop was on site in Calgary to install, voice, and tune the instrument, which was completed at the Ahrend workshop in Leer, Germany in April 2006.
This organ is one of only four in North America crafted by Jürgen Ahrend, and is the only instrument of its kind in Canada.
The tonal design and specifications of the new organ are consistent with the seventeenth-century North German organs that Jürgen Ahrend was commissioned to renovate following WWII. As such it is a musical window into the much-loved world of Baroque organ music as it was heard in the time of Bach and Buxtehude.
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