The Craighead-Saunders Organ in Christ Church, Rochester is the newest instrument in the collection at the Eastman School of Music. The organ is the result of an eight-year international research project documenting and copying the 1776 organ by Adam Gottlob Casparini (1715-1788) in the Holy Ghost Church in Vilnius, Lithuania, one of the best preserved late-baroque organs in all of Europe. After a thorough documentation of the original instrument, a team from GOArt, at Gothenburg University in Sweden, led by Mats Arvidsson and Munetaka Yokota, worked closely with the Eastman School of Music and a group of some of the finest organbuilders in America (Steven Dieck, Paul Fritts, Bruce Fowkes, Martin Pasi, and George Taylor) to produce the first research instrument after Casparini anywhere in the world, and the first large-scale historical reconstruction at this level in America. The instrument opens a new window on the aesthetics of the Enlightenment Era and on the organ music of an often-ignored period, while at the same time helping us experience well-known repertoires from Bach to Mendelssohn in a new light.

The Specification of the Craighead-Saunders Organ in Christ Church, Rochester, modeled after the 1776 Adam Gottlob Casparini organ in Vilnius, Lithuania, as it appears on the organ:.

CLAVIATURA PRIMA.

Claviatura Secunda

P E D A L.

Accessories