ABSTRACT
On 9 May 2004, a major Swedish early organ revival project came full circle when the reconstructed Düben organ of Stockholm’s German Church was inaugurated. The original seventeenth-century instrument had languished in the church’s tower gallery for some time before being sold to a far-away parish in Övertorneå (North Sweden) at the end of the eighteenth century. Now, over 200 years later, the sound of this baroque organ once again fills the sanctuary wherein it was originally installed. The project comprised three phases: the first was to document the original organ’s surviving material in Övertorneå and in another church in nearby Hietaniemi; the second was the organ’s reconstruction in Norrfjärden church, which then became the basis for the third phase, restoring the displaced organ in Övertorneå and reconstructing it again in its original abode, the German Church in Stockholm.
