Freiberg Cathedral - instruments from the 1600s – two triangles

Freiberg Cathedral - instruments from the 1600s – two triangles

Georg Klemm zu Randeck (1549 - 1628), instrument builder

Paul Klemm from Randeck (1552 – 1623), instrument maker

Giovanni Maria Nosseni (1544 - 1620), plaster sculptor

1585/1594

Triangle

Musical instrument

Freiberg Cathedral: Freiberg, Germany.

In a crypt for the House of Wettin in Freiberg Cathedral, real musical instruments are used to form statues of angels playing instruments. There are thirty angels suspended about forty feet above the floor, all holding musical instruments. Of the thirty, only nine of the instruments are models; the rest are real, working instruments. There are two angels that each play a triangle. Since 2002, researchers from the University of Leipzig have carefully researched these instruments using x-ray and endoscopic technology. Exactly replicas have been made in an effort to hear what these instruments may have sounded like in the 1600s. SEE ALSO Freiberg Cathedral - instruments from the 1600s – two triangles – replicas