Église Saint-Matthieu de Colmar

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This guide to the Protestant church of Saint-Matthieu in Colmar follows the organ Andreas Silbermann built here in seventeen thirty-one, one of only three he placed in a Lutheran church outside Strasbourg, inside a building split for centuries between a walled-off Catholic choir and Protestant nave. It traces the builders who kept reworking his instrument, from Callinet to Rinckenbach to Richard Dott, and the festival violinist Vladimir Spivakov later built inside these same walls. Listen for the pipework above the gallery, still carrying every builder's fingerprints.