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Organbuilding Company Rieger
Lyko, Petr
This paper reflects one of the largest European organ companies, operating from the late 19th century to the second decade of the 21st century. The company was founded under the name Gebrüder Rieger in 1873 in the Silesian town of Krnov (then the German name Jägerndorf). In 1904 it changed its name to Rieger, which was used until the end of the Second World War. After its termination, the German owners were expelled, the factory was then taken over under national administration and subsequently nationalized. At the same time, a smaller organ workshop by Josef Kloss was also included. The factory has since used the Rieger-Kloss brand on its instruments. After 1989, the plant was privatized, but ended its activity in 2015. The work follows not only the history of the company, but also the issues of artistic and structural specifics of the Krnov instruments. On the artistic level, these organs were, in the beginning, heavily influenced by the paradigm of the so-called romantic organ (or even the stimulus of the Cecilian reform), which in Central Europe experienced the greatest development at the time of the founding of the company, and culminated at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and then by the ideas of the reformist organ movement that has affected the production of the factory since about...
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Organbuilding Company Rieger
Lyko, Petr
This paper reflects one of the largest European organ companies, operating from the late 19th century to the second decade of the 21st century. The company was founded under the name Gebrüder Rieger in 1873 in the Silesian town of Krnov (then the German name Jägerndorf). In 1904 it changed its name to Rieger, which was used until the end of the Second World War. After its termination, the German owners were expelled, the factory was then taken over under national administration and subsequently nationalized. At the same time, a smaller organ workshop by Josef Kloss was also included. The factory has since used the Rieger-Kloss brand on its instruments. After 1989, the plant was privatized, but ended its activity in 2015. The work follows not only the history of the company, but also the issues of artistic and structural specifics of the Krnov instruments. On the artistic level, these organs were, in the beginning, heavily influenced by the paradigm of the so-called romantic organ (or even the stimulus of the Cecilian reform), which in Central Europe experienced the greatest development at the time of the founding of the company, and culminated at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and then by the ideas of the reformist organ movement that has affected the production of the factory since about...
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