Kern or­gan in the small hall

A par­ti­cu­lar­ly cha­rac­te­ris­tic and high-qua­li­ty in­stru­ment is the Kern or­gan in the uni­ver­si­ty­'s Small Hall, which was built in 1990 tog­e­ther with the hall by the Al­sa­ti­an or­gan buil­ding com­pa­ny Kern.

This or­gan, which has a strong his­to­ri­cal in­flu­ence, is pri­ma­ri­ly mo­de­led on the fa­mous in­stru­ments of the gre­at or­gan buil­der Jo­hann An­dre­as Sil­ber­mann in Al­sace, sup­ple­men­ted by ele­ments of the 'Sa­xon' Sil­ber­mann, Gott­fried, un­cle of Jo­hann An­dre­as.

in 2019, Quen­tin Blu­men­ro­eder from Ha­guen­au near Stras­bourg gave the or­gan an ex­em­pla­ry over­haul and re­fi­ned its sound. Works from the clas­si­cal French pe­ri­od in par­ti­cu­lar (Cou­pe­rin, Gri­gny, etc.), but also works by J.S. Bach, Men­dels­sohn and others can now be play­ed very well here.

Ex­cerpts from the reo­pe­ning con­cert in No­vem­ber 2019 can be found here.