Best Pipe Organ and Cathedral Music Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Pipe Organ and Cathedral Music Tour Destinations The pipe organ is the largest, oldest, and most architecturally integrated instrument humans have built. A great organ in a great cathedral is a particular kind of cultural experience - the sound fills the space because the space was built to hold it, the organist is invisible high in the nave, and the music has been refined through 1,500 years of liturgical and concert tradition. The destinations where you can hear the world's great organs in their original architectural context are concentrated, and visits combine music, architecture, and history in ways few other cultural experiences offer. I've heard organ recitals at Saint-Sulpice in Paris (twice), at King's College Cambridge, at Westminster Abbey, and at Trinity Church Wall Street in NYC. The Bach-tradition Leipzig destinations and most of the Spanish, German, and Italian organ heritage come from organist fr...