Afternoon Seminar – Wed, October 15, 2025 – Saint Jacob Church – Joel Speerstra & Harald Vogel

SOUND DOCUMENTATION Afternoon Seminar Wednesday, October 15, 2025 14:30–16:00 Saint Jacob Church (Admission free) Visions of Jerusalem´s Temple in Seventeenth Century Keyboard Collections Johann Kuhnau and Visions of the Temple of Solomon Joel Speerstra, presenter Juan Bautista Villalpando’s 1604 masterpiece of visionary architecture, Ezechielem Explanationes, was a landmark publication that influenced art, architecture, and music throughout the 17th century. Villalpando collaborated with his master on the building of the Escorial Palace outside Madrid, Philip II’s own vision of Solomon’s Temple. This building and the book that followed resonate throughout the 17th century. Our exploration will look at visual and musical resonances from church architecture and book illustrations to the remarkable model of the Temple built for the Hamburg Opera and still preserved in the Hamburg Museum of History. We end this part of the seminar with a speculative new reading of Johan Kuhnau’s Frische Clavier-Früchte from 1696 and suggest it is his own vision of the Temple in number, proportion, emblem, and music. Vision of Organ Sound A new recording resource of the historical organs in Northern Germany Harald Vogel, presenter PODCAST Jon Liinason Göteborg International Organ Festival October 8-19, 2025 A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All! www.organacademy.se/programoversikt