Mounted in swallow nest, located in the triforium of St. Etienne Cathedral, Metz, France. Its current disposition is two manual and pedalboard with a total of 10 stops.
Throughout four centuries, not a single pipe or part of the Trèves organ survived, but only a small part of the case. Marc Garnier was entrusted with the reconstruction of the organ according to the Flemish Style of the 1600s. Garnier undertook the task in 1981 and, as a result, the organ was declared Historical Monument in 1984. Yet an admirable exponent of the Renaissance Organ.
Contextual historical chronology
1521: Josquin de Prés (c.1450-1521) Decease on August 27th. Arnoldt Schlick (1455-1521) Decease on unknown date.
1535: Henry VIII (1491-1547) Head of the Church of England.
1536: Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Decease on July 12th, in Basel.
1538: John Calvin (1509-1564) and his followers Expelled from Geneva.
1538: Foundation of the first university (Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino) in the New World.
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
1545: Council of Trent.
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