El órgano Amezua de la Iglesia Parroquial de la Purísima Concepción de Salamanca: fuentes para su historia

During the second half of the 19th century, the art of organ building reached a great development in the North of the Iberian Peninsula, creating its own school in the Basque Country by builders such as Aquilino Amezua, who assimilated the style of the French- Catalonian organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Amezua's studio received numerous orders, being the maker of organs such as those ones of the cathedrals of Valladolid and Sevilla. But what it is of interest here is the organ made for the monumental Church of the Immaculate Conception in Salamanca, dated 1902. This instrument is relevant within the romantic organ building in Castilla y León, according to the opinions of various specialists, and has remained unused for several decades despite having already been the subject of various restorations. My aim here has been to recover the sources related to that instrument to reconstruct its history and help with this material, as far as possible, to a restoration project that would return its functionality, as it eventually happened in autumn 2013. [Publication abstract]