The Auditorio Nacional de Música (National Auditorium of Music) is a complex of concert venues located in Madrid, Spain that was built in 1988. As the largest symphony hall in Spain it can seat over 1,200 in its 3 major halls combined. It features a beautiful Simon Platt designed pipe organ that has 5,000 pipes with divided couplings and 3 stops. #BaroqueSun
Located on the campus of Towson, Maryland’s Townson University, the Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall is the largest venue on site and can seat 500. It’s home to a 1973 Opus pipe organ with over 2,300 pipes that is built into the walls of the concert hall. #BaroqueSun
Paul Voertman Concert Hall is 1 of 10 performance spaces on the University of North Texas campus. It was completed in the late 1950s but was demolished, renovated & reopened in 2010 and can seat 380. It features state of the art sound design to achieve superior acoustics. #BaroqueSun
Detroit Symphony Orchestra- the USA’s 4th oldest orchestra- performs at OrchestraHall in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It originally Opened in 1919 and can seat 2000. It has a 6,263 pipe Electro-pneumatic Organ. #BaroqueSun
Brussels Centre for Fine Arts is located in Brussels, Belgium and was completed in 1928 in Art Deco style by architect Victor Horta. It features an egg-shaped main hall that can seat 2, 200 and a pipe organ with 4,000 pipes, both were sadly damaged in fires in the 1960s and in 2022 but have been successfully restored since #BaroqueSun
The Frankfort Radio Symphony’s Alte Oper was built in 1873 by Philipp Holzmann and rebuilt and reopened in 1981 after it had been nearly demolished by air raids during WWII. It hosts 2 halls that seat over 1,400 people combined and a pipe organ that is known for its power. #BaroqueSun
Vézelay Abbey is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Burgundy, France. It was established sometime in the 9th century In 1979 it was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites. It was discovered that the abbey was built in a way that at midday during solstices sunlight creates paths of light throughout the abbey. There is a pipe organ onsite but it was added in the 1990s. #BaroqueSun
The Church of Corpus Christi is a Roman Catholic church in Manhattan, New York. It was built and established in 1906. It’s known for its beautiful interior and for its fully restored 1956, 3 rank Holtkamp pipe organ. #BaroqueSun
The Helsinki Music Centre in Töölönlahti,Helsinki. It was completed in 2011 and its main hall seats 1,704. It’s 5 smaller rooms are used by the Sibelius Academy. It has the largest concert hall organ in Europe with 123 registers. #BaroqueSun
The Church of Our Lady Bremen is an Evangelical Protestant church in Bremen, Germany. It was built in the 13th century but the interior has been restored multiple times due to fires over the years. It’s known for its beautiful stained-glass windows and for having an ornate, 40 stop Paul Ott pipe organ #BaroqueSun
The Convent of Annunciata is located in Milan, Italy and was built in the 15th century. It is now used as an artists space and venue for events and performances. It’s mostly known for its beautiful but unrestored frescos. #BaroqueSun
Garrison Church is located in Copenhagen, Denmark and was originally built for military personnel in the 18th century. The Romantic composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (husband of composer Emma Hartmann) is buried on the grounds of the church. It has a gorgeous 45 register Orgelbyggeri pipe organ that has 2,861 pipes that are tuned in a historical tuning that while more limited in range are incredibly tonally evocative😍 #BaroqueSun
Westminster United Church is a gothic style located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was originally opened in 1892 and officially became the “United Church” in 1925 when three local denominations formed a union. In honor of its centennial anniversary in 1992 it was designated as a Provincial Heritage Building. In addition to beautiful stained glass it also features a Casavant pipe organ that is one of the three largest pipe organs in the province. #BaroqueSun
The Hall of Mirrors at Schloss Köthen in Germany is the former creative home of Johann Sebastian Bach (under Prince Leopold) and is the current home of Köthen's biannual Bach festival. #BaroqueSun
The Kultur-und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Germany was built in 1956 and is considered one of the most important German cultural buildings of the post-WWII period. It features a unique looking 69 register pipe organ that has over 6,000 pipes. #BaroqueSun
Riga Cathedral (formally The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary) is an Evangelical Lutheran cathedral in Riga, Latvia that was established in 1211. It features a fully restored 4 manual, 18 combination E.F. Walcker & Sons pipe organ that has 6,718 pipes😍 #BaroqueSun
Royal Albert Hall in London, England was built in the late 1860s and can seat 5,272 people. It is home to the magnificent 9,999 pipe Henry Willis Grand Organ. #BaroqueSun
Gran Teatre del Liceu is an opera house in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1837, and despite moving locations it’s the oldest theatre in Barcelona. It was in the news for performing for an all plant audience due to the pandemic (https://youtu.be/i9BRbtIgipQ?si=PYfmv9YBBs1lUeNH) #BaroqueSun
The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. It was built in 1886 and the main hall can set just shy of 2,000 people. It has a pipe organ with 60 registers from 1890. #BaroqueSun
Schloss Grafenegg is a romantic style castle in Grafenegg, Austria that was built in the late 13th century. It’s known for its beautiful gardens and spacious grounds. In 2007, the Wolkenturm, an open-air stage which can seat around 2,000 total seats and lawn combined. #BaroqueSun
The Johanneskirche AKA Church of St. John is a Roman Catholic church located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Despite its limited sized (it seats only 900!) the high ceilings give it beautiful acoustics. It features a Metzler pipe organ withe 50 stops and 3,536 pipes It also has a split console so that two organ players can play music simultaneously. #BaroqueSun
First Parish Cambridge is a Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church has a storied 400yr history of various spiritual and congregational changes. It has a restored Frobenius pipe organ with 40 stops and 2,949 pipes and is tonally designed with neo-classical music in mind. #BaroqueSun
Winspear hall at the University of North Texas’s Murchison Performing Arts Center can seat 1,025. (Unfortunately, I could not find information on their pipe organ) #BaroqueSun
The Concert Hall of the conservatoire Royal Northern College of Music is located in Manchester, England. It was recently fully refurbished and can seat nearly 800 people. Its unique octagonal space also features a Hradetsky 4 manual concert pipe organ. #BaroqueSun
Lutherse Kerk is a Lutheran church in Haarlem, Netherlands that was built in 1615. It features a 4register, fully restored Strobel pipe organ. #BaroqueSun
Abbazia di Maguzzano is a 15th century Catholic abbey near the town of Simione, Italy. It is now partially a museum, a school for iconography and a space for music arts events. #BaroqueSun
Schloss Hellbrunn is an early Baroque villa in Salzburg, Austria that was completed in 1619 for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. It is most known for its beautiful interiors and grounds which make it a popular tourist and events hosting destination in the summer months. #BaroqueSun
The Seoul Arts Center is an arts complex in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It it comprised of five main buildings: the Opera House (with three auditoriums), the Music Hall (with two concert halls), the Hangaram Art Museum, the Hangaram Design Museum, and the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum. The Music Hall was completed in 1988 and its concert hall can seat 2,523 people while the recital hall is more intimate with seating for only 354. The Seoul Arts Center has no pipe organ💔 #BaroqueSun
The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse and perform at the Oslo Concert Hall in Vika, Oslo, Norway. It was completed in 1977 and can seat 1,600 people. It is home to the 2nd largest pipe organ in Norway with 7,000 pipes #BaroqueSun
Església de Sant Andreu in Santanyí, Spain was completed in 1811. It’s an exceptionally unique building in that it’s built out of special sandstones from Santanyí. It’s known for its bell tower and for its massive altarpiece. The altarpiece and exquisite, 2 manual Jordi Bosch- designed pipe organ were brought to Santanyí after the minister Mendizábal ordered the monastery’s property seized😱 The pipe organ was so large, that the church had to be redesigned to accommodate it! #BaroqueSun
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity was established in 1904 in NYC. It’s known for its beautiful altar, gorgeous pipe organs and the Bach Vespers series (https://www.holytrinitynyc.org/bach-vespers) which began in 1968. It’s the first instance in The USA where the Bach Cantatas can be heard on their appointed day in the context of the liturgical calendar performed by a professional Bach Choir. Also, the church was featured in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters”! #BaroqueSun
@analgesicsleep I think the NYC chamber orchestra plays out of here. I've seen the oboe/violin Bach concerto BWV 1060R? out of here and it has been on one of our hashtags if memory serves. #BaroqueSun
Smetana hall is located in The Municipal House AKA Obecní dům in Prague. The exterior of this Art Nouveau building features artwork inspired by Czech sculptor Ladislav Šaloun. It can seat 1,259 and has a Tucek pipe organ at center stage. #BaroqueSun
The Singer-Polignac hotel in Paris, France was built in the 1770s. It now hosts various musicians as both artists-in-residency and for performances. #BaroqueSun
Schuilkerk De Hoop AKA “The Clandestine Church of Hope” in Amsterdam was built in 1786. Its unique non-ostentatious aesthetic is that due to anti-catholic sentiments church could not be recognisable as a traditional catholic religious institution. By the 20th century the church had fallen into disuse and became a local music school and community arts space- which it has since remained. #BaroqueSun
St Leodegar is a Catholic Church in Möhlin, Switzerland that was originally established in 735CE but burned in 1633 and was rebuilt in 1639. #BaroqueSun
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia was established in 1940 and with seating for 1,505 it’s considered one of the largest concert halls in Russia. With 81 stops, 7, 800 pipe and weighing over 480lbs, the hall’s Reiger-Kloss Pipe Organ is one of the largest in Russia and was inaugurated in the mid-1950s and features a unique blend of voices in its workings that make it considered a national treasure. #BaroqueSun
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark that is based around the private collection of Danish Brewer, collector and philanthropist Carl Jacobsen. It was Established in 1897, averages over 500,000 yearly visitors and due its’ architecture being noted for wonderful acoustics it often hosts concerts in the auditorium and the exhibition halls. #BaroqueSun
Mariager Abbey in Mariager, Denmark was founded in 1430 as an abbey for a monastic religious order of the Catholic Church, today it’s also partially converted into a registry office and charitable institution. It’s well known for it’s gorgeous, fully restored, 47 stop Aubertin pipe organ, which is the second ever French built pipe organ in Denmark😍 #BaroqueSun
The Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene is an Episcopal gothic revival style Church in Rochester, New York was built in 1823. It has an E.M. Skinner built, 3 manual pipe organ that was built in the mid 1920s that is still in use to this day. #BaroqueSun
Jeanne Lamon Hall is a performance space at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts in Toronto, Canada. It has a beautifully restored Casavant Frères pipe organ that was built in 1941. #BaroqueSun
Konzerthaus Berlin in Berlin, Germany was first opened in 1802, destroyed by a fire in 1817, rebuilt in 1821, damaged by allied bombing and the Battle of Berlin and finally rebuilt AGAIN in 1977. It has an elaborate, fully restored 74 register Jehmlich House Organ that has 5,811 pipes which is nicknamed “The Queen”. #BaroqueSun
DiMenna Center for Classical Music is located inside of The Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. It opened in 2011 and welcomes over 100,000 visitors per year #BaroqueSun
Stavros Niarchos Hall is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. It was completed in 2016, can seat 1,400 and is the home of the Greek National Opera, the Greek Radio Symphony and The National Library of Greece. #BaroqueSun
Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay is a Performing Arts Centre located in Downtown Core, Singapore near the Singapore River. It was completed in 2002 and its five venues can seat a combined total of 3,600 people. It wasn’t designed to look like the infamous Durian fruit but it does so locals nicknamed it “the two durians”. The largest performance hall features a pipe organ with 4,740 pipes and 61 stops designed by Johannes Klais Orgelbau😍 #BaroqueSun
Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall is a performing arts centre in Empress Place, Singapore. It was completed in 1902, was used as a hospital during WWII, a venue for post WWII Japanese war crime conviction trials and was designated a National Monument on Valentine’s Day in 1992. It can seat 600 and features a 50yr old Klais pipe organ that has 2,012 pipes and is also Singapore's only fully mechanical organ😍 #BaroqueSun
The Auditorio Nacional de Música is concert venue complex in Madrid, Spain that opened in 1988 and its three hall can seat a combined 3,224 people. The Main hall AKA La Sala Sinfónica features a 5,700 pipe Gethard Grenzig pipe organ- which is one of the largest in the world😍 #BaroqueSun
The Parish Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill is located in London, England and was established in 1907. In addition to the beautifully maintained murals at the alter, the church is considered to be an excellent example of Queen Anne Revival style architecture. It features a distinguished restored and refurbished Father Willis pipe organ and regularly hosts music and arts festivals and local events. Also, the church has a podcast? (https://www.stjudeonthehill.com/podcast) #BaroqueSun
De Duif is a hybrid neo-classicist/neo-baroque style Roman Catholic Church in Amsterdam that was built in 1858. It was declared a Rijksmonument AKA a national heritage site of the Netherlands in 1995. Despite no longer being used to hold official religious events it is used to host cultural and local events and it is still home to a large, fully restored, working Smits-orgel pipe organ. #BaroqueSun
The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel is a music school in Waterloo, Belgium that was established in 1939. The intimate (they only take 50 students per year) residential conservatory also operates a recording studio and hosts concerts and events year round. Also, they have a merch shop with albums & etc. if that interests anyone (https://shop.utick.be/?module=CATALOGUE&pos=MUSICCHAPEL&catalogueid=1300) #BaroqueSun
Villa Parco Bolasco is a 19th century Italian villa that now hosts various cultural and local events. It is known for its beautiful gardens, tasteful art collection and exquisite grounds. #BaroqueSun
Saint Michael’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Ghent, Belgium that was established in 1105. It was partially destroyed and rebuilt twice due to warfare activities. It also has an exquisite 47 stop pipe organ😍 #BaroqueSun
The Musikkollegium Winterthur is located in Winterthur, Switzerland and was designed by Gottfried Semper in the early 19th century. Thanks to early 20th century arts patrons bringing in big stars like Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss to create and maintain creative links to the city it and the Musikkollegium Winterthur became a center of European musical life of the era. #BaroqueSun
The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna was completed in 1870 and consists of 5 concert hall totaling a combined nearly 3000 seats. It’s great hall is known for it’s acoustics and for it’s beautiful gold decor. The fully restored pipe organ has 6,138 pipes and stands 36ft tall #BaroqueSun
The Berliner Philharmonie in Germany was built in 1963 and consists of 2 halls which seat a total of 3,629. It features a gorgeous 4 stop pipe organ #BaroqueSun
The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is located in Baden-Baden, Germany and with a seating capacity of 2,500 it is Germany’s largest opera and concert house. It was originally in 1904 as a railway station and it finally became a concert hall in April 1998. It is the first privately financed European opera and concert company. #BaroqueSun
The Flagey Building AKA The Radio House is a cultural center in Brussels, Belgium. It’s an Art Deco style building that was completed in 1938 and features multiple recording studios, screening rooms and performance halls. It also has a fully restored, 4 manual pipe organ complete with 95 registers and 8,125 pipes. #BaroqueSun
The Kraków Philharmonic is a neo-baroque concert hall in Kraków, Poland that was completed in 1945 and is the largest concert hall in the city. It features a unique looking 50 pipe, Klais - Orgelbau Bonn pipe organ that replaced its original pipe organ which sadly was lost due to a fire in the early 1990s. #BaroqueSun
St. Egidien AKA Egidienplatz is a former Benedictine Abbey in Nuremberg, Germany that is considered a significant example of baroque architecture in Bravaria. It was built in the early 1700s on the foundations of the original building from the 12th century and was then reconstructed after WWII air raids severely damaged it. It has a 3 manual Rieger Orgelbau pipe organ #BaroqueSun
@analgesicsleep That reminds me of one of my favorite French mystery series ASTRID (or in France #AstridEtRaphaelle) where one episode had a murder committed INSIDE an enormous pipe organ 😆 #BaroqueSun
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