The Church of St. François, in the heart of Lausanne, now has 4 organs. They constitute ‘Organopole’, a veritable organ centre.

Both organs were overhauled and slightly modified to adapt them to their position on the new galleries. An additional stop was added to the Italian organ. The Spanish organ was moved from the Church of St. Laurent in Lausanne.
Sitting opposite each other, the two instruments are used, amongst other things, for two-organ repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Meantone temperament, stops typical of Spanish and Italian (Venetian) organ-building, short octave with split keys (Spanish organ), hand-operated wedge bellows, etc. are some of the features of these instruments, built as stylistic copies.
Pipe-builder Marco Venegoni and voicer Jean-Marie Tricoteaux contributed to the success of the project. Its initiator and driving force is the Organist, Benjamin Righetti. The organs are used extensively for concerts and recordings, and for teaching conservatoire students.

• Site

  

  • Place St. François, 1000 Lausanne
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• Details (spanish choir-organ)

  

  • Type

    Choir organ

  • Style

    Spanish Renaissance, Spanisch Baroque

  • Usage

    Worship, Teaching, Concert

  • Collaboration

    Marco Venegoni, Pipemaker & Jean-Marie Tricoteaux, Voicer, organist

  • Organiste

    Benjamin Righetti

• Details (italian choir-organ)

  

  • Type

    Choir organ

  • Style

    Italian Renaissance, Italian Baroque

  • Usage

    Worship, Teaching, Concert

  • Collaboration

    Marco Venegoni, Pipemaker & Jean-Marie Tricoteaux, Voicer, organist

  • Organiste

    Benjamin Righetti

• Stop-list (spanish choir-organ)

  

  • Manual

    Compass: C - c''', short octave

    • Flautado 8′

    • Violon 8′

    • Octava 4′

    • Dozena 3′

    • Quinzena 2′

    • Nasardo 1 3/5′

    • Lleno (V)

    • Trompeta Real 8′

    • Dulzayna 8′

    • Corneta magna (VII)

  • Pedal

    Compass: C - c°

    • Permanent coupler

  • Playing aid

    • Tremulant

  Comments

  • Pitch: 440 Hz

  • Tuning: 1/4-komma meantone

  • All stops devided in bass and treble (c’/c#’), except Corneta (treble only)

  • Gaita (two reed pipes F - c)

  • Tambor (two 8’-pipes)

  • 14 keys per octave (d#/eb, g#/ab)

• Stop-list (italian choir-organ)

  

  • Manual

    Compass: C - c''', without C#

    • Principal 8′

    • Ottava 4′

    • Flauto in ottava 4′

    • Quintadecima 2′

    • Decimanona 1 1/3′

    • Vigesimaseconda 1′

    • Cornetino (V)

    • Flauto in duodecima 2 2/3′

    • Flauto in quintadecima 2′

    • Voce umana 8′

    • Tromboncini 8′

  • Pedal (Pedal)

    Compass: C - g°

    • Permanent coupler

  Comments

  • Pitch: 440 Hz

  • Tuning: 1/4-komma meantone

  • All stops devided in bass and trebble (c’/c#’), except Cornetina and Voce umana (treble), Quintadecima, Decimanona, Vigesimaseconda (complete stops) permanent pedal coupler

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• Links

  

  • Organopole

    Quatre orgues d'excellence à Saint-François, Lausanne

    organopole.com