Located in Roskilde Cathedral, Zealand Island, Eastern Denmark. Its current disposition is three manuals and pedalboard with a total of 33 stops.
Built by the Dutch organ builder Hermann Raphaëlis in 1555 and later rebuilt by Johann Lorenz (or Lorentz), organist and organ builder at the Court of Copenhagen, in 1654. It contains pipework from the 15th century. In 1991 it was reconstructed to its original 1654 state by the Dutch Firm Marcussen. It represents the Late Renaissance-Early Baroque organ.
Contextual historical chronology
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
1545: Council of Trent.
1558: Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590) Le Istitutioni harmoniche.
1564: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Decease on February 18th.
1568: Start out of The Eighty Years’ War.
1572: Massacre of Protestants in Paris.
1581: Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591) Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna.
1594: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Romeo and Juliet.
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