Uploaded January 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Annette Richards, university organist and professor of music, explains why Cornell built its new majestic baroque organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel.
The organ project required over seven years of research in an international, collaborative effort by Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at the University of GÖTEBORG, Sweden.
The instrument re-creates the tonal design of the celebrated Charlottenburg organ in Berlin, handmade in 1706 by master organ builder Arp Schnitger and tragically destroyed during WWII. The interdisciplinary effort to understand the many aspects of this historic organ's construction included experts in fluid dynamics, electro-acoustics, and metallurgy, as well as craftsmen and musicians.
For more information: baroqueorgan.cornell.edu
Annette Richards, university organist and professor of music, explains why Cornell built its new majestic baroque organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel.
The organ project required over seven years of research in an international, collaborative effort by Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and the Gothenburg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at the University of GÖTEBORG, Sweden.
The instrument re-creates the tonal design of the celebrated Charlottenburg organ in Berlin, handmade in 1706 by master organ builder Arp Schnitger and tragically destroyed during WWII. The interdisciplinary effort to understand the many aspects of this historic organ's construction included experts in fluid dynamics, electro-acoustics, and metallurgy, as well as craftsmen and musicians.
For more information: baroqueorgan.cornell.edu
