Our organs

The great concert hall at the HMTM, located at Arcisstraße 12, can seat up to 600 people. This is where the grand concert organ is situated: the Kuhn organ, with 52 stops across three manuals and a pedalboard. It was built in 1999.

The so-called »Bach organ« from the Rowan West workshop was inaugurated at the HMTM in autumn 2019 and was the first of its kind in the state of Bavaria. The West organ uniquely combines various characteristics of organs from northern Germany and Thuringia on which Johann Sebastian Bach played: on the one hand, it has a transparent sound that is particularly suited to Baroque polyphonic music. On the other hand, the organ has numerous stops with finely nuanced timbres for quiet passages. The individual stops were built using historically documented construction methods and therefore have a particularly distinctive character. Given this background, the new Bach organ is particularly well-suited to the repertoire of the 17th to 19th centuries.

Funding for the organ was made possible by support from the »Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)« and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, as well as by numerous individual donors.

The Sandtner organ, built in 1974, is a large three-manual organ with 49 stops. The key action is mechanical, whilst the stop action is electric.

The organ, built by Orgelbau Pirchner, dates back to 1981. It has 13 stops across two manuals and a pedalboard.

The Fratti organ is the latest addition to the HMTM’s organ collection. It was built by Marco Fratti as an Italian organ in the 16th/17th-century style and was officially inaugurated at the HMTM in November 2024. With a manual spanning four octaves and a pedalboard with a range of just one and a half octaves, the Fratti organ is specifically designed for Italian, South German and Southern European music of the 16th to 18th centuries. The instrument produces a radiantly bright yet light sound, known as the »ripieno«. This makes the organ ideally suited to works featuring complex polyphony.

Funding for the organ was made possible by support from the »Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)« and the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, as well as by numerous individual donors.

Organ stop list:

Manual
(C, D, E to c’’’, broken octave, with subsemitones G#/Ab and Eb/D#, 52 keys)
Principale (tin)
Principale secondo (from c; C to B = Principale) (lead)
Ottava
Quintadecima
Decimanona
Vigesimaseconda
Vigesimasesta
Flauto in Ottava
Flauto in Duodecima
Cornetto (3f, from C#’)
Fiffaro (from C#’)
Regale Bassi 8’ (C to c’)
Regale Soprani 8’ (from C#’)

Pedal
(C, D, E, F, G, A to f, short octave, 14 keys)
Contrabassi 16’ (spruce)

A Jann organ has been available to students since 1978.

The Schuke organ was built in 1988 and has three manuals and 38 stops.