The Britannic Organ - Vol. 7
The Welte Philharmonie Organ in the Museum of
Music Machines in Seewen, Switzerland
Works of Bossi, Wagner, Gigout, Lorenz, Mailly, Saint-Saens,
Franck, Reger, Bach, Sweelinck, Scheidt, Dubois, Guilmant
Organists: Franz Joseph Breitenbach, Paul Hindermann,
Karl Matthei, Johann Jakob Nater
Recorded on strictly numbered Welte rolls (master)
The Welte Philharmonie Organ in the chapel of Meggenhorn
Castle on Lake Lucerne should be mentioned
here, as well as the instrument of the Museum of
Music Machines in Seewen, which was intended as a
Welte Philharmonie Organ for the ocean liner Britannic
– the sister ship of the Titanic. Both organs have
survived to the present day from the early twentieth
century, when they were built by the Welte company,
and were restored by Kuhn organ builders, one of the
leading Swiss organ building firms. Both instruments
allow the recordings with the Welte Philharmonie system,
also made with Swiss organists in Freiburg im
Breisgau starting in 1911, to be resurrected.