David Tannenberg, Organ Builder

Chapter 9: News & Upcoming Recitals

Organ Recital - May 2, 2010:

Philip T. D. Cooper will be playing a recital on the 1787 Tannenberg organ in the Fellowship Hall at Lititz Moravian Church on Sunday May 2nd at 4:00pm. The program will be entitled "Johann Pachelbel und seine Schule" and will feature music by the Nurnberg master as well as his students and grand-students!

Help Contribute to the Restoration of the 1770 Tannenberg Organ!

Zion Lutheran Church in Moselem Springs is now involved in fund-raising efforts to completely restore their 1770 Tannenberg organ to it's original condition! They have contracted with R. J. Brunner & Co. for this work. Persons or organizations interested in contributing to the restoration should send checks directly to the church and made out to "Zion Moselem Tannenberg Organ Fund". The church's address is:

Zion Moselem Lutheran Church
340 Moselem Church Road
Kutztown, PA 19530-8847

For the history of this organ, please go here.

MORE NEWS!!

Old Pennsylvania-German Organs Volume 2 has been released! To purchase a copy, please visit the Organ Historical Society catalog (see the links in Chapter 11 for the OHS web site).

Old Pennsylvania-German Organs CD Series:

Work continues to progress on the editing and production of Old Pennsylvania-German Organ Volume 3. Hopefully, this will be released this fall!

Volume 4 will feature only the 2 Tannenberg organs in Old Salem. The smaller of these organs has recently been restored (click here for more info).

Old Pennsylvania-German Organs is a six volume series featuring all nine organs by Tannenberg as well as twelve other organs built by the followers of Tannenberg.

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Philip T. D. Cooper
Organist & Organ Historian