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The organ is back: How a fiendishly complex Baroque instrument has become fashionable again

8 May 2026 at 13:45

The first organ Montserrat Torrent ever played, at age 18, was in a chapel in Santa Coloma de Farners in the Spanish city of Girona, where her family spent their summers. โ€œIt was a simple organ, without pedal stops, but it was good,โ€ she says. โ€œI tried to play absurd things, like Chopinโ€™s nocturnes, but there was no way to make them sound right.โ€

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ยฉ Vicens Gimenez (EL PAรS)

Juan de la Rubia, organist of the Sagrada Familia, before the Blancafort organ of the basilica.
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