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Bart Jacobs

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The essence of Bachs organ art and that of his contemporaries, brought to life by replicas of instruments faithfully modeled after 18th-century German building principlesActive along the Baltic Sea coastwhere German-language worship and commercial exchanges flourished from the Middle Ages through the early modern period and who left behind renowned German-style organs in Latvia and EstoniaHeinrich Andreas Contius (17081795)made Halle his base of operations in his youth and was on close terms with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Later in life, he moved to Leipzig, where he was highly praised even by Johann Sebastian Bach himselfwho knew more about organ construction than his own eldest son. In 1779, a new organ built by Kontius was installed at the Holy Trinity Church in Liepja, the ancient capital of Latvia. After undergoing repeated renovations based on later-e