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State-of-the-art organ makes debut at Lucerne festival

This content was published on Aug 17, 2000 The organ made its debut with “Festliches Präludium”, a rarely performed work by Richard Strauss, which was first played at the inauguration of the Vienna Concert House in 1913. The organ has over 60 registers, and is based on the so-called French-Romantic sound ideal. Played on a purely mechanical basis, this allows for optimum sound,…