St. Petri-Domkirche, Bremen

Name variations: Bremer Dom; St. Petri-Dom, Bremen; Bremen Cathedral (EN) Protestant cathedral (Dom) in Romanesque style from the 11th century in the city of Bremen, northern Germany. The church has five organs: • a historic large Romantic 32' organ on the west gallery, built in 1894 by Wilhelm Sauer (III/P/65) in the neo-Gothic case of the previous organ of 1849; Sauer enlarged the instrument in 1905 (IV/P/77) and again in 1939 (IV/P/98), this time with extensive changes in line with the neo-Baroque organ movement; modified and enlarged again in 1958 by E. F. Walcker & Cie. (IV/P/111); last restored to its 1905 state by Christian Scheffler in 1996 (IV/P/98); • a smaller modern neo-Baroque style 16' organ (III/P/35) on the east wall of the north aisle ("Bach organ"), built by Van Vulpen in 1966 to replace the previous Bach organ by Sauer of 1939; • in the west crypt, a small historic Gottfried Silbermann organ (I/8), originally built 1734-1748 for the church in Etzdorf, Saxony, and moved to the Cathedral in 1939; last restored by Wegscheider in 1994; tuning: attenuated meantone, pitch: a' = 467 Hz; • a small 16' choir organ (I/P/10) from 2002 by Wegscheider, tuning: well-tempered; • in the east crypt, a modern small Renaissance style 8' organ with wooden stops (II/p/9), built in1991 by Klop and installed here in 2001 (tuning: meantone); this instrument was replaced in 2023 by a small historic Italian 8' organ (I/p/7), built in 1810 by Palmieri (Naples); tuning: "Vallotti-Barca", pitch a' = 441 Hz. Since around 2015, the interior acoustics of the church have been significantly improved thanks to the installation of retractable and extendable sound sails and curtains.