Organ Jubilee

When the Concert Hall in the KKL Luzern was opened in 1998, it lacked an organ. Not for another two years did an instrument arrive, crafted by the Goll organ-building company and considered a masterpiece. Just think of what it allows you to hear! This “regal” instrument has over 66 registers spread across four manuals and the pedal. An incredible 4,387 pipes provide a variety of sounds that hardly any orchestra can match. We are celebrating the 25th birthday of the phenomenal Goll organ with an anniversary event. You can apply to participate in an organ tour or experience the instrument’s full potential during a 40min session, which will take place in the Concert Hall. Afterwards, the Festival Strings Lucerne invite you to a concert. The legendary Wayne Marshall will perform two organ concertos: first, the one by Francis Poulenc, written in 1938 as a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach, and then the peppy Fifth Concerto by Naji Hakim, who was the titular organist and successor to Olivier Messiaen at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris for many years. The Strings will provide a festive finale to the evening with Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony.