ABSTRACT
The organ of Saint Julien et Sainte Basilisse of Vinçá was constructed by the French organ builder Jean-Pierre Cavaillé (1743-1809), who was working at the area of the south of France and Catalonia during the second half of the XVIII century, leaving instruments as important as this one and other organs in Saint Guilhem-le-Désert (France), in Torroja del Priorat (Tarragona) or in Barcelona (Santa Catalina). The organ had been entrusted to the organ builder Joseph Cavaillé, uncle of Jean-Pierre, although the last one was who realized most of the work. Its construction was carried out between 1760 and 1765, having stopped the works in 1762 for lack of funds and being taken up again three years later. The case was arranged in the Catalan way, in the third side chapel of the nave of the Gospel, but in 1862-1864 it was moved to the current position, in a tribune to the foot of the nave. The author of these works was Henri Thébault (Luzzato 1977, Klotz 1995, Jambou 1999) who extended the number of keys of the keyboards and modified the stops. The organ has three manuals and pedalboard. Both the Great Organ and the Choir Organ have an extension of 50 notes, while the Recitative has 27 notes, and the Pedal originally 14 notes.
