MILAN - S.MAURIZIO AL MONASTERO MAGGIORE
The church, built inside the important Benedictine Major Monastery, is the work of Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono. It was built in 1503 on the ruins of an ancient church attached to the monastery, demolished in 1799. The interior is divided by a partition into two rooms of equal size: one used as a public church, the other as the nuns' choir.
This unique, richly painted partition does not reach all the way to the ceiling, so that the nuns could attend mass without seeing or being seen from the outside; conversely, from the outside they could hear the polyphonic singing of the female voices of the choir, accompanied by Antegnati's pipe organ.
THE ORGAN
The organ of San Maurizio at the Monastero Maggiore is located in the choir loft above the choir stalls, to the side on the right, and is contained in a richly carved and decorated wooden case.
The console, built in 1982, is windowed in the plinth, includes 1 keyboard with 50 notes F-1 - A4 with boxwood-plated chromatic and ebony-plated diatonic. The keyboard is connected, with a suspended mechanism, also built in 1982, to the top plate located directly above and at the height of the facade. The pedalboard, from the same era as the keyboard, is a music stand and has 18 parallel pedals from F-1 to C2which is permanently attached to the keyboard has no registers of its own. The registers are controlled by notched, horizontally sliding knobs arranged on the right side of the keyboard; again, these are elements built in 1982. The chest, built in 1982, is of the 'wind' type, made of solid walnut. At the rear of the case are the four wedge-shaped bellows that can be operated by rods; all the ducts were built in 1982.
The perspective pipes are all "Antegnati" and belong to the Main register. The internal pipes are approximately 60% made by "Antegnati" with the exception of the Human Voice and the Flute in duodecima, which is by an unknown author, datable between the 16th and 17th centuries. The remaining pipes were made in 1982.
Gian Giacomo Antegnati Organ 1554 - Mascioni 1982
50-note keyboard (F-1/LA4 with omission of the last G#)
Pedalboard of 18 pedals (fa-1/re2)
Tuning: medium tone
PHONIC COMPOSITION
- Main (12′ base)
Ottava
Tenth-fifth
Decimanona
Vigesimasecond
Vigesimasesta
Vigesimanona
Third and Sixth
Flute in VIII
Flute in XII
Fiffaro
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