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Walcker Orgelbau (also known as E. F. Walcker & Cie.) of Ludwigsburg, Baden‑Württemberg, Germany,
He is a pipe organ builder.
It was founded in Cannstatt, a suburb of Stuttgart in 1780 by Johann Eberhard Walcker [de]. His son Eberhard Friedrich Walcker moved the business to Ludwigsburg in 1820.[1] more... |
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Walcker first became famous for the organ he built in Frankfurt's Paulskirche in 1833, which had 74 stops. Other important commissions quickly followed and Walcker became a pioneer of the "symphony organ" style in Germany. Known for its distinguished facilities and poor performance, the company built the organ at the Boston Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, Zagreb Cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia, University of Latvia, Riga Cathedral and Luther Church in Riga, Latvia. ][4][5] The Boston Instrument is now housed in the Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, MA. The largest Walcker organ in the world had 220 stops and more than sixteen thousand pipes. It was built in the 1930s for a state congress hall in Nuremberg and was destroyed by bombing. air during World War II. The pipe organ located in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Medellín in Colombia is the second largest organ in South America, with more than 3000 tubes. For its part, the organ of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy, installed in Santiago de Chile, has 2,500 pipes. |
