Freiberg Cathedral - replicas of instruments from the 1600s – two triangles

Freiberg Cathedral - replicas of instruments from the 1600s – two triangles

Giovanni Maria Nosseni (1544 - 1620), plaster sculptor

George Klemm from Randeck (1549 - 1628), instrument maker

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

1600/1699

2003

Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Germany.

MIMO

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.

Museum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig