SOP Podcast #33: Göran Grahn on the Swedish Organ Culture

3/15/2016

Welcome to episode 33 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!

Today's guest is my long time friend - Swedish organ expert and organist Göran Grahn who is active as an organ consultant, making programs for restorations and newbuilding of pipe organs. He is also the secretary of International Society of Organbuilders, a society of around 300 organ builders worldwide and a curator of Museum

of musical instruments and manuscripts - Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande. A dear friend of the Baltics, Göran is fluent in Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian.

In this conversation Göran shares his insights about Swedish organ culture - instruments, history, style, and music.

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Relevant links:
Göran Grahn Orgelkonsult
International Society of Organbuilders
Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande

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SOP Podcast #33: Göran Grahn on the Swedish Organ Culture

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