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Photo: Historical Archives Ljubljana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo: Historical Archives Ljubljana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Gor\u0161i\u010d’s creative progress<\/h2>\n
Gor\u0161i\u010d\u2019s inaugural organ was installed in his home parisch church in Trnovo (op. 1, 1864) – a two -manual organ with 20 registers, crafted using the common method of slider chests at the time.<\/p>\n
His final organ was built at St. Lenart above \u0160kofja Loka. Unfortunately, this organ and the church were both destroyed by a landmine in 1944.<\/p>\n
Gor\u0161i\u010d took great pride in the organ he installed in the Ursuline Church in Ljubljana, considering it the most sonorous of all his works.<\/p>\n His technical progress was significantly influenced by the organ workshop of the Link brothers (Giengen an der Brenz, Germany), from which he bought organ pipes (from 1887) and patents. From 1889, he also collaborated with the carver Janez Vurnik Jr. (1849-1911) from Radovljica, who crafted organ cases for him.<\/p>\n Gor\u0161i\u010d was regularly responsible for the tuning of organs in churches and institutions across in what is now Slovenian territory and abroad. The numerous organ repairs he carried out during his 35 years as a craftsman cannot be overlooked.<\/p>\n It is generally acknowledged by experts that cases in which Gor\u0161i\u010d thoroughly renovated and rebuilt existing old organs are considered his work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ivan Milavec (1874-1915) also studied with Gor\u0161i\u010d from 21 September 1888 to 21 January 1892 and remained as his assistant until 18 May 1895.<\/p>\n Gor\u0161i\u010d was distinguished by his extraordinary musical talent. One could even say that he had a pefect pitch, as he never missed a note by ear. He also had some musical training. He received his first musical instruction from his father, and in Vienna, he developed his musical abilities to such an extent that he was able to prelude and improvise in a completely relaxed and ear-pleasing manner.<\/p>\n The composer Anton Foerster once confessed to Gor\u0161i\u010d that no one could replicate his playing of the marches on the organ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gor\u0161i\u010d’s interest in culture was evident in his wide reading habits, including newspapers in German, and his subscriptions to literary works of Jur\u010di\u010d, Stritar and Levstik. Gor\u0161i\u010d was also in personal contact with Josip Jur\u010di\u010d and Fran Levstik. He was one of the founding members of the Craftsmen’s Auxiliary Association, and a member of the National Reading Society. For a short time, he was also actively involved in politics (from 1882), but unfortunately, we cannot find many records of this.<\/p>\n According to the technical design of Gor\u0161i\u010d organs, his oeuvre can be divided into three periods.<\/p>\n 1864-1884 Mechanical slider chests<\/strong> 1884-1897 Mechanical cone chests<\/strong> 1898 Pneumatics, windchests outlets with hanging membrane<\/strong> Gor\u0161i\u010d’s complete oeuvre comprises 66 newly made or rebuilt instruments in Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Italy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gor\u0161i\u010d’s last preserved organ stands in Mokronog. This is notable as his first instrument with a pneumatic tracker action. He replaced the existing conical valves on the windchest under the pipes with a hanging valve membrane, and the mechanical connection between the keys at the console and the valves was replaced by lead air tubes. The system operates on the principle of ‘air leakage’ – when air is released from the valve membrane, it compresses, opening the air channels through which the air reaches the pipes. The entire pneumatic tracker of the console, through the relays to the windchest, works on this principle. The organ in Mokronog was restored in 2019-20 by the Ko\u0161ir Organ Workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[48],"lokacija":[],"orglar":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pipe-organ-legacy-of-franc-gorsic","tag-archival-material-collecting","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"lokacija","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lokacija?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"orglar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/orglar?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ORGANISTICA-Skica-orgelska-omara-Ursulinska-cerkev-761x1024.webp\"){kind=spacer}
Photo: Ursuline Monastery, Ljubljana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGor\u0161i\u010d’s opus<\/h2>\n
\nThe first mechanical organ with slider chests was made for the Trnovo church (Op. 1, 1864), and the last such organ was made in Vuhred (Op. 41, c. 1884).<\/p>\n
\nThe first mechanical organ with cone chests was built in Borovnica (Op. 42, 1884), and the last organ of this type was made in Log pri Vipavi (Op. 64, 1897).<\/p>\n
\nIn his last creative period, he made only one pneumatic organ, for Mokronog (Op. 65, 1898).<\/p>\n