Located in St. Cosmae Church, Stade, Germany. Its current disposition is three manuals and pedalboard with a total of 42 stops.
Berend Huss and his apprentice, Arp Schnitger, worked on the new organ at St. Cosmae until 1671, completing the three manuals. They worked under a different contract on the pedal board, achieving the whole organ on 1675. By then, Vincent Lübeck assumed a tenure as organist and later entrusted Arp Schnitger with some modifications and the building up of a 16′ trommet in the Oberwerk, which Schnitger achieved in 1688. It is a marvelous example of the Werkprinzig organ of the late 17th century. After successive alterations along the centuries, the organ was fully restored to the original Schnitger 1688 state by Jürgen Ahrend in 1975.
Contextual historical chronology
1675: Mathew Locke (1622-1677) Psyche.
1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Decease on March 22nd.
1689: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Dido and Aeneas.
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