JAN SLYVINS’KYJ AND HIS ORGAN FACTORY IN LVIV
Keywords:
Organ building in Lviv, Jan Slyvins’kyj, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Latin Cathedral in Lviv.Abstract
In the middle of the 19th century the organ art and craft in Europe was reinvigorated by a new development impetus. French inventor and organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899) created a new kind of a wind pipe organ, which due to its simmensely powerful expressive and technical capabilities, and to a wide range and timbre variety was named symphonic. This romantic instrument was in fact a worthy competitor to a full symphony orchestra. The middle of the 19th century witnessed the beginning of a rapid development of organ art and craft not only in France but also in Lviv. The city simultaneously housed about a dozen active artisans, who supplied the temples in Lviv and Halychyna with new organs, and who even built wind pipe organs to be installed outside the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which comprised Lviv at that time. One of the most prominent Lviv organ builders was born in the small town Pistyn near Kolomyia, Jan Slyvins’kyj (1844–1903), who in his youth worked and apprenticed at the factories of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in Paris and Southern France. The article sheds light on the life and professional achievements of the Lviv craftsman and organ builder Jan Slyvins’kyj against the background of the general picture of social and cultural level of the capital of Western Ukraine in the 19th century. The author presents a number of technical innovations introduced in the organ building craft by the Lviv organ builder. The comparative characteristics of the organ sounds of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and Jan Slyvins’kyj testifies to the fact that the then organ building craft relied on the inventions of the creator of a symphonic organ. A special attention in the article is paid to the necessity of reviving the interest in organ art in Lviv, and to the need to expand the information database about the personal achievements of the most prominent representatives of organ art throughout its more than six centuries history.
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