During our recent visit to Germany, we made a visit to Villa Hügel in Essen to visit the 1912 Aeolian Pipe Organ. Jonathan performed the Sicilienne by Maria Theresia von Paradis.
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Organist - Jonathan Scott
Film & Sound - Tom Scott

Thank you to the organ curator Jörg Glebe.

Villa Hügel was built by the famous German Steel manufacturer, inventor and industrialist, Alfred Krupp from 1870-1873. It was home to the Krupp family until the Second World War. It has been open to the public since 1953, and the Kulturstiftung Ruhr (Ruhr Cultural Foundation) organises art exhibitions and concerts. It has 269 rooms and is situated in a 69 acre park.

THE ORGAN OF VILLA HÜGEL, ESSEN, GERMANY
The organ is housed on the northern gallery of the Upper Hall of Villa Hügel. It was built in 1912 by the Aeolian Organ Company from America and was commissioned by Bertha and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. The organ was used for house music and at social events.
The instrument was restored and enlarged in 1928 by M. Welte & Söhne (Freiburg). In 2019 there was an overhaul by Klais (Bonn) in 2002 and 2003.
The organ has a console with two manuals and pedals. All registers are enclosed in a swell box and can, almost entirely, be played on both manuals. The organ has a Welte roll apparatus for automatically playing paper rolls, as well as a Midi player, which was added in 2019 so the organ can be demonstrated on tours.

SPECIFICATION

I. Manual C–c 4
1. Principal 8
2. Vox coelestis 8
3. Viol d'orchestre 8
4. Viol 8
5. Flute 4
6. Bourdon 8
7. Clarinet 8
8 Vox Humana 8
9. Saxaphone 8
10. Transverse Flute 8
11. Oboe 8
12. Sesquialter II 2 2/3
Tremolo (Aeolian chest)
Tremolo (Welte-Chest)

II. Manual C–c 4
13. Principal (No. 1) 8
14. Vox coelestis (No. 2) 8
15. Viol d'orchestre (No. 3) 8
16. Viol (No. 4) 8
17. Flute (No. 5) 4
18. Bourdon (No. 6) 8
19. Clarinet (No. 7) 8
20. Vox Humana (No. 8) 8
21. Saxaphone (from c 0) (from No. 9) 16
22. Traverse flute No. 10) 8
23. Oboe (No. 11) 8
24. Sesquialter II (No. 12) 2 2/3
25. Trumpet 8

Pedal C–f 1
26. Subbass 16
27. Flute (No. 8) 8
28. Saxaphone (No. 9) 8

COUPLERS
Unison: II/I, I/P, II/P
Suboctave: I/I, II/II
Superoctave: I/I, II/II, II/I
Playing aids : stop (aequallage in I, in II), three fixed combinations in I and II (piano, mezzoforte, forte), 5-stage register crescendo
Secondary register: Chimes, Harp, each playable from I or II