{"id":1946,"date":"2023-07-15T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.mihaomejc.com\/organistica\/mayers-pipe-organ-in-sentvid-pri-sticni\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T08:12:42","slug":"mayers-pipe-organ-in-sentvid-pri-sticni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organistica.si\/en\/mayers-pipe-organ-in-sentvid-pri-sticni\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayer\u2019s Pipe Organ in \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the testimony of the then parish priest Vidergar, the old Rumpl organ in \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni was breaking down more and more often. In the spring of 1911, he therefore requested the Mayer Brothers’ Organ Workshop to prepare a quotation for a new organ, which was submitted at the beginning of June.<\/p>\n

The Mayer Brothers’ Organ Workshop (Orgelbau Gebr\u00fcder Mayer) was founded in 1872 by brothers Johann and Georg Mayer. According to their archives, the workshop built 20 organs in the area of present-day Slovenia in the period of 1902-1913. Their first organ was installed in the church of the German Knights of the Order in Ljubljana (Kri\u017eanke) in 1902. Their largest work in Slovenia was built for the parish of \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni in 1912. The Mayer Organ Workshop is still in operation today in the Austrian town of Feldkirch-Altenstadt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Vidergar\u2019s request sent to the Ljubljana diocese was answered by Father Hugolin Sattner (1851-1934), who did not like Mayer’s organ design. Among other technical proposals, he disliked the idea of handing over a new work to a foreign organ builder. Stanko Premrl (1880-1965), also a member of the music commission of the Ljubljana diocese, was more lenient towards the foreign craftsman. Thus, Sattner and Premrl together proposed several technical and acoustic improvements to the organ builder (e.g. a super-octave coupler to manual II and a crescendo device with a roller). As can be seen from later documents and the current situation, the Trumpet register was moved from manual I to manual II, and the Quint bass was added in the pedal as a transmission from the Burdon of manual I.<\/p>\n

On March 8, 1912, Vidergar, the parish priest of \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni, signed a contract with the Mayer Brothers’ Organ Workshop.<\/p>\n

\u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni gets a new Mayer organ<\/h2>\n

Between May 15 and August 6, 1912, Mayer’s organ workshop built the organ, which was installed in the choir of the church in \u0160entvid between August 7 and September 10, 1912. The free-standing console featured a roller cover for the two manual keyboards, each with 56 keys, and a pedal keyboard with 27 keys. For the pneumatic tracker, 1200 metres of lead pipes were planned. The organ had one main bellows, two feeder bellows, and 1381 pipes, of which 1094 were metal and 287 wooden.<\/p>\n

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The Mayer organ in the parish church in \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni. The third manual was added in 1992 by Anton Jenko.
Photo: Ga\u0161per Stopar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The \u0160entvid organ was the 150th creation of the Mayer Brothers’ Organ Workshop and their largest instrument in the area of present-day Slovenia. It was approved by the Ljubljana diocese on September 10, 1912. Composer Ignacij Hladnik (1865 – 1932) ranked it among the best organs in the Kranjska region in the publication Cerkveni glasbenik<\/a> (CG 1912, No. 10, pp. 82-83).<\/p>\n

World War I intervenes in the Mayer Brothers’ organ<\/h2>\n

Amid the First World War, the monarchy began to run short of raw materials. The non-ferrous metals were mainly tin and lead, the two most commonly used alloys for the manufacture of organ pipes. In the spring of 1918, authorised organ builders began requisitioning these materials, and in \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni, the entire Principal register was taken, along with some smaller pipes of other metal registers.<\/p>\n

After the war, the singing in the choir of \u0160entvid was poorer. It was only the young and later long-standing organist Pavel \u017dagar, originally from Trebelno, who systematically began to reintroduce choral, folk and children’s music participation. In 1924, he wrote an extensive report on the state of singing and the organ for the editorial board of the publication Cerkveni glasbenik<\/a> (CG 1924, vol. 3-4, p. 37). The report revealed that the organ was \u201cvery run down and dusty, but last autumn it has been put in order. Tuning and cleaning cost over 5000 crowns.\u201d The work was carried out by the organ builder Anton Derni\u010d (1879-1954) from Radovljica.<\/p>\n

In 1928, the organ builder Franc Jenko (1894-1968) rebuilt the missing pipes and arranged the electrically powered bellows.<\/p>\n

Mayer\u2019s organ upgraded by Anton Jenko<\/h2>\n

After 80 years of constant use, the organ began to deteriorate. The parish priest Jo\u017ee Ko\u017eelj turned to the Slovenian organologist Dr Edo \u0160kulj for advice. In early 1991, \u0160kulj responded, advising that “there are two possible steps in the renovation: 1.) Complete renovation of the present organ by replacing worn parts, or 2.) Enlargement and modernisation of the organ.” He also suggested “a third manual, namely a positive one either on the choir rail or in the lower part of the organ case”.<\/p>\n

However, Jenko did not fully adhere to \u0160kulj’s proposal. On December 6, 1992, Bishop Jo\u017eef Kvas blessed the renovated Mayer organ, which the organ builder Anton Jenko (1931-2009) had upgraded with a new third manual and a new console with an electrical connection to the windchests (a larger box with pulpits, bores and valves).<\/p>\n

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Mayer-Jenko organ console in the parish church in \u0160entvid pri Sti\u010dni
Photo: Ga\u0161per Stopar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pipes of the third manual added in 1992
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