Church
Hofkirche St. Leodegar
Baroque church with a monumental organ once holding the world's tallest and heaviest pipe.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Lucerne follows the organ built after a catastrophic fire in sixteen thirty-three, and the obsession with scale behind its very first pipe. You will meet the Austrian builder racing to finish an instrument unlike anything else in the world, and the craftsmen who kept doubling down on his ambition for centuries after. It is a story about a town choosing spectacle over restraint while rebuilding from disaster. Best heard standing in the nave, looking straight up toward the pipes overhead.
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