| Format | 2 Audio CD |
| Ordering Number | OC 843 |
| Barcode | 4260034868434 |
| label | OehmsClassics |
| Release date | 7/11/2012 |
| salesrank | 2575 |
| Players/Contributors | Musicians
Composer
- Bonnet, Joseph
- Boëllmann, Léon
- Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François
- Buxtehude, Dieterich
- Chauvet, Charles Alexis
- Corelli, Arcangelo
- Franck, César
- Gigout, Eugène
- Lemmens, Jacques-Nicolas
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste
- Schumann, Robert
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The Britannic Organ, Volume 4
Works by Eugène Gigout and Joseph Bonnet
Die Welte-Philharmonie-Orgel im Museum für
Musikautomaten in Seewen, Switzerland
The Museum für Musikautomaten in Seewen owes
its existence to the passionate collector Dr. Heinrich
Weiss (*1920).
Weiss was able to purchase the museum’s Welte
Philharmonie Organ – the so-called Brittanic Organ
– for his collection in 1969. Some time later, he acquired
music rolls from the Welte company as well as
what is apparently the world’s only performance recording
device made by the Welte Company that is still
in existence. These three purchases from the Freiburg
company Welte may be considered the culmination of
Weiss’s collecting activities.
OehmsClassics continues this extravagantly crafted
series with music by French composers. In November
2013, right in time for Richard Wagner year, a
double-CD with compositions of the Bayreuth master
will follow.