Dresden Cathedral Decides On Modern Organ, Purists Protest

Music purists are protesting the decision at Dresden’s famed Frauenkirche to replace the organ there with a more modern instrument. “The board of trustees of the foundation in charge of reconstructing the cathedral, which was destroyed at the end of World War II and left as a ruin during more than four decades of communist rule, decided on Monday to give the contract to an organ builder in Strasbourg. In doing so, they rejected a competing proposal for an exact reproduction of the original organ was described by a number of prominent supporters as ‘historically correct’.”