{"id":1866,"date":"2023-02-15T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.mihaomejc.com\/organistica\/a-look-into-the-history-of-the-gorsic-pipe-organ-in-the-church-of-st-stephen-in-vipava\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:33:02","slug":"a-look-into-the-history-of-the-gorsic-pipe-organ-in-the-church-of-st-stephen-in-vipava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/a-look-into-the-history-of-the-gorsic-pipe-organ-in-the-church-of-st-stephen-in-vipava\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look into the History of the Gor\u0161i\u010d Pipe Organ in the Church of St. Stephen in Vipava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1892, as his 57th project, Franc Gor\u0161i\u010d crafted a new organ for St. Stephen&#8217;s Church in Vipava. This organ featured a mechanical cone windchest and 20 registers distributed across two manuals and a pedal.<\/p>\n<p>On September 18, 1892, the new organ was blessed. Renowned organ expert Hugolin Sattner (1851-1934) praised it. Hugolin Sattner published a report in the publication <a href=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Cerkveni-glasbenik-1892-letnik-15-st-10.pdf\">Cerkveni glasbenik<\/a> (CG 1892, No. 10, p. 78), providing insights into the disposition, organ case, bellows, mechanics and pipes of the new Gor\u0161i\u010d organ.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-751\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-750\" src=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-Sv-Stefan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-Sv-Stefan.jpeg 470w, https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-Sv-Stefan-181x280.jpeg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franc Gor\u0161i\u010d organ from Vipava (Op. 57, 1892)<br \/>Photo: Uro\u0161 Kova\u010d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1966, the organ in Vipava was renovated, enlarged and rebuilt by the dean Slavko Podobnik. It was upgraded with a pneumatic system and some additional registers (II\/24). While the old organ had about 1000 pipes, the new organ already had 1630.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the Gor\u0161i\u010d organ in the Vipava church was replaced by a new instrument from the Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik (II\/33). The exterior design was created by the architect Marko Lavren\u010di\u010d. The preserved metal and wooden pipes of the old Gor\u0161i\u010d organ were bought by the <a href=\"http:\/\/orglarstvo-mocnik.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik<\/a> and stored in their warehouse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" style=\"width: 758px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-760\" src=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Orglarstvo-Mocnik-Vipava-Sv-Stefan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Orglarstvo-Mocnik-Vipava-Sv-Stefan.jpg 768w, https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Orglarstvo-Mocnik-Vipava-Sv-Stefan-210x280.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New organ, Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik (Op. 11, 2005)<br \/>Photo: Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The metal pipes of the Gor\u0161i\u010d organ were made in the German organ workshop Gebr\u00fcder Link. In September 2021, the preserved pipes were inventoried and documented, revealing that the data obtained did not entirely correspond with the publications in the aforementioned report by Hugolin Sattner. One notable difference was found in the details concerning the transitions between the wooden and metal pipes. It turned out that when the Gor\u0161i\u010d organ in Log pri Vipava (Op. 64, 1897) was rebuilt, the Oboa 8\u2032 register was replaced by the Obo\u00eb 8\u2032 register from the organ in Vipava. The original register is still stored in the Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik warehouse. The pipes of both registers have a beating reed, as in the Ursuline organ in Ljubljana (Op. 56, 1891), but the reed from Log pri Vipavi differs in the construction of the shallot. The Obo\u00eb 8\u2032 from the Ursuline organ posesses a soldered shallot, while the Obo\u00eb 8\u2032 from Logo pri Vipavi features a compressed shallot.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ORGANISTICA-Disposition-Gorsic-organ-Vipava.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organ disposition<\/a> &gt;<\/h3>\n<h2>From Vipava to \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni<\/h2>\n<p>The intention was to reuse 13 registers from the former Gor\u0161i\u010d organ from Vipava in the new organ for the parish of \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni. Among them is a 16\u2032 Bombarde pedal register with half resonators, wooden boots (two wooden blocks, c and cis) and free reeds, which were originally made by the organ builders Chwatal &amp; Sohn, Merseburg (the inscription can be found on the C tone shallot). This company, which specialised in the manufacture of organ parts, was founded in 1884 by Carl Otto Chwatal (1848-1902).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-776\" src=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-prenihajoci-jezicnik-1-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-prenihajoci-jezicnik-1-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-prenihajoci-jezicnik-1-544x280.jpg 544w, https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-prenihajoci-jezicnik-1-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/organistica.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ORGANISTICA-Franc-Gorsic-Vipava-prenihajoci-jezicnik-1.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free reed of the C tone of the Bombarde 16&#8242; pedal register from the Gor\u0161i\u010d organ in Vipava<br \/>Photo: Orglarstvo Mo\u010dnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Similarity between the organs in Vipava and Smlednik<\/h2>\n<p>Similarities with the Vipava organ can also be observed in Gor\u0161i\u010d&#8217;s organ in Smlednik (Op. 34, 1881), which also has a Bombarda 16\u2032 pedal register with half resonators, metal boots and free reeds, but was made by Schiedmayer Pianofortefabrik, Stuttgart (the inscription can be found on the C-note shallot).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[48,50],"lokacija":[61],"orglar":[56],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pipe-organ-legacy-of-franc-gorsic","tag-archival-material-collecting","tag-documenting","lokacija-church-of-st-stephen","orglar-franc-gorsic-en","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\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"lokacija","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lokacija?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"orglar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/orglar?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}