Ján Princzkel

Rieger · opus 1251 · 1905

Church of the Holy Name of Mary, Torbágy

A one-manual Rieger organ with nine stops, opus 1251, in the Catholic church of Torbágy, a district of Biatorbágy. It is on my list, but I have not recorded it yet.

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The church

The Catholic church of Torbágy is dedicated to the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boldogságos Szűz Mária Szent Neve); its Hungarian name is Szűz Mária Szent Neve templom.

  • A church already stood here before 1332; its dedication is unknown.
  • Today's church is a listed monument. It was built in 1724–1730 from the material of the medieval church, keeping its sanctuary.
  • A tower was added around 1740. The sources disagree about the transept: the Magyar Katolikus Lexikon dates it to 1801, while the heritage register says it was added when the church was fully renovated and rebuilt in 1880–1881.
  • The organ gallery is a wooden structure.

The organ

Builder
Rieger
Opus
1251
Built
1905 or 1906
Keyboards
1 manual, with pedal
Stops
9, 4 of them borrowed
Action
Pneumatic
Recording
Not recorded yet

Rieger built the organ as opus 1251, with one manual and nine stops. The Magyar Katolikus Lexikon and Ferenc Solymosi's Rieger opus list date it 1905, the Biatorbágy heritage register 1906; it may have been built and inaugurated in different years, but this is not established. According to the heritage register it was built with a machine-driven bellows (gépi fújtató). It replaced an 18th-century organ. The organ also has a pedal.

Solymosi's list, published in 2000/01, gives more detail: the console has nine stops, but the organ has only five complete ranks of pipes, so four stops borrow their pipes from other ranks. The key and stop action are pneumatic, and the chests are cone chests. The list records no parts taken over from the earlier organ. I have not checked these details on site yet.

Still to find out

  • The stoplist, and which stops borrow their pipes from which ranks.
  • How many keys the manual and the pedal have.
  • On my next visit I want to photograph the console, every stop label, the builder's plate and the case.

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