Gottfried Silbermann
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Gottfried Silbermann was a German builder of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and fortepianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two.
Gottfried Silbermann is commemorated in a sculpted portrait by the 20th century sculptor Bernd Göbel, part of the Fortuna Fountain in Freiberg, Germany, where Silbermann worked
Silbermann organ in Freiberg Cathedral
Freiberg Cathedral
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The Freiberg Cathedral or Cathedral of St Mary is a church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony in Freiberg in Saxony. The term Dom, a German synecdoche used for collegiate churches and cathed
Gottfried Silbermann
…a master craftsman in 1710, and opened his own organ workshop in Freiberg one year later. His second project in Germany was the "Grand Organ" in the Freiberg Cathedral of St. Mary, finished in 1714. In 1723 he was bestowed the title Königlich Polnischen und Churfürstlich Sächsischen Hof- und Landorgelmachers ("Honorary…
Freiberg Cathedral seen from the Untermarkt
Organ and ceiling, Freiberg Cathedral, Germany
Open fretwork pulpit, Freiberg Cathedral
Freiberg Cathedral