Enyedi, Ştefan: Orgile istorice din judeţul Satu Mare (Satu Mare, 2004)

Historical pipe organs in Satu Mare county

learned at Steven Jonas' workshop in Oradea. The first organ built by him is in Ghenci (1884), we've found a modification made by him at Craidorolţ (1886), one in Eriu Sâncrai (1895), there still exist two organs in Catholic churches at Sâi (18??) and Borleşti (189?). In other districts he built at: Mineu (1884), Saula (188?), Bárdháza (1889), Beregújfalú (1890), the last two are in Ukraine. Andrew Dukász constructed small organs with one keyboard division (54 keys), with pedalboard (15 or 12 keys), Ke puts the registers aside, the organcase usually has 3 flats, the one in the middle is taller and has a tympanum over the cornice, above a harp. In the case of the organs from Sâi and Borleşti, the organcase being shorter, it has 4 flats, the two in the middle are shorter and above them appears the harp.

At the end of the 19th century the need for organs is growing both at reformed and Catholic communities. The competition between the churches manifested itself only regarding the builder's person. That's how appears Karl Klöckner from Bratislava, Ottomar Gergelyi organolog says that: „Karl Klöckner built his most beautiful organs for the Diocese of Satu Mare“. He really built for the Catholic Cathedral of Satu Mare an organ with two keyboard divisions and a pedalboard, with 25 registers, for Baia Mare again with two keyboard divisions and a pedalboard (here only the main case remained), the organs from Sighetul Martnadéi and Carei could be built by him too. One of his organs disappeared from Porumbeşti in the seventies, one of them still exists in Diacovo (Ukraine). Another famous organ builder from the West is Josef Loyp from Wienna, who built 3 organs in Tăşnad, Cămin and Urziceni with a single keyboard division and pedalboard (with short octave at Cămin and Urziceni).

Now appear in our region the big organ builder firms: Országh (1884), Angster (1887), Kerékgyártó (1894), Rieger (1894), and Wegenstein (1899). The instruments built by these firms in the 19-th century are exclusive with mechanical action and cone valves.

At the beginning of the 20-th century appear the first instruments with pneumatic action, the exception is Alexander Országh in Ambud (1894), after this comes Rieger to Satu Mare to the Church of nuns (1901), Angster is still at Satu Mare in the reformed church of Mintiu (1905-1906), and Wegenstein at Pir (1910).

We render you the list of organ builders with the number of their organs in alphabetic order:

1.József Angster and son (Pécs, Hungary)

7 organs

2.SándorBozsóki (Săcuieni Bihor, Romania)

1 organ

3.Antal Dangl and son (Arad, Romania)

4 organs

4.Endre Dukász (Carei, Romania)

5 organs

5.Georg Glatzl (Guttenburg a Jnn, Germania)

1 organ

6.István Jónás (Oradea, Romania)

2 organs

7.István Kerékgyártó (Debrecen, Hungary)

11 organs

8.István Kiszely (Debrecen, Hungary)

1 organ

9.Kari Klöckner (Bratislava, Slovacia)

2 organs

10.István Kolonics (Târgu Secuiesc, Romania)

2 organs

11.Ferdinand Komornyik (Budapest, Hungary)

2 organs

12.Kuhn Th A.G. (Männedorf, Switzerland)

1 organ

13.Josef Loyp (Wien, Austro Hungary)

3 organs

14.József Molnár (Oradea, Romania)

1 organ

15.Sándor, Antal Országh (Debrecen, Hungary)

11 organs

16.Gebrüder Rieger Jägerndorf (Budapesta, Austro Hungary)

13 organs

17.István Soltész (Sanislău, Romania)

1 organ

18.István Strosz (Mérk, Hungary)

6 organs

19.László Gyula Szabó (Oradea, Romania)

3 organs

20.Ferenc Szeidl (Oradea, Romania)

2 organs

21.Leopold Wegenstein and sons (Timişoara, Romania)

5 organs.

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