The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-05

OPENING or THE NEW GHAxD ORGAN on Sun
DAY---LAEsE CONGREGATION AND FINE NJ
srC--INTERgsrISg DISCOURSE Br REV. DIR
o'coNNELL--DEsCRIPTI0 or Tim NEW IN
sTRrNEsT, &C. y.
| The opening Of tbe pew grand organ q
81. Peters Cathedral on Sunday hst drew
In addition to the regular congregation,
large concourse OF strangers and persons c
other denominations. This fact occHsionet
for q time bustling and confusion aBoul
the doors but little in accordance with ths
| profound silence usually observed In Ca
tboIic churches, and very annoying to tf1os<
who went TO worship, and not to crafty
their curiosity.
TIE SERVICES, SERMON. Axs MUSIC.
The services began at half-psst 10 O'Clock
with the celebration OF high msss by Rev.
Father W. b. Haniy, the choir C,senino the
musical programme by singing the Krie
from HaydD's Imperial Mass No. z, follow
ed immediately by the Gloria In Ezceisis
from Mozart's immortal Twelfth Mass.
Next, and just before the sermon, came the
| Veni Sancie Spiyitus by Deitsch~ Rev.
DIR. ID. j. O'ConneiI then assembled the pull
| pit and delivered 4 discourse which was
foil OF exquisite IDEAS on the subject OF
music as connected with the Church. He
was listened 10 With breathless silence az he
spoke OF the Church as the mother Of The
great musicians, Mozart and Haydn. and
rs having been the ipspirer of their great
est compositions. He also traced most
beautiful analogy between the devotion
OF the Rosary, or beads, and the wor-
ship OF God ny music. The mass was
then continued 10 its close, the music OF the
CredO, the SGRctus, and the Benedictus OF
| Haydn's Third Mass, and the AgnuS Del
and D0na NobiS OF Hay brilliant Second
Mass being sung with fine effect. Owing to
the organ not being completed very little
idea OF its power could be formed, though,
under the skilful manipulations OF Profess
sor Edward Caulield, its beautiful harmo-
MES and sweet tones were brought out to
the best possible advantage-tbe drawback
Of incOmpleteness being consldered-par-
ticularly so was this noticeable 10 the vol
untary performed by him at the offertory
and the closing overture from Zanetta, by
Auber, played as the congregation was
leaving the church. Professor Caufeld's 5
playing is at all times superb, and we hope
to hear him soon when the organ is per-
fected, and to enjoy the concord OF sweet
sounds he will produce upon it.
The singers on Sunday embraced the
regular members OF the choir, as follows
Sopranos Mrs. Louise Wendinger, Mrs.
Kate Newap. Mrs. w. II. Ward, and Miss
VoelkeI; MtOS. Mrs. Il. Coppens and Mrs.
l.. Edelblut; teRors. Messrs. Thomas Eng
lsh and John Joyce; bdSSOS, Messrs. j. w.
Laube and John A. Pizzini. A string
quartette, consisting OF Messrs. Kessnich
first violnl, Laube second yiolin). Baseler
(vioIal, and Hoen (violinceIlo), assisted ma
ierialy in rendering the various selections.
The singers and musicians were generally
cOmplimented upon the credtable manner
in which they had acquitted themselves,
and the music as whole was pronounced
to have been very fine and most effectively
rendered. Very Rev. Father Janssene
welded the directors baton.
DESCRIPTION OF TIRE ORGAN.
The organ is from the factory OF Messrs.
PomplltZ K Co., church-organ builders, OF
Baltimore, and is the first ever put up in
the South by that firm. With one excep-
ton, it is probably the largest, and is ex-
pected to surpass any instrument OF the
kind in Richmond. Toe following is a full
| description of it:
The case OF the organ is made in the
medieval style OF architecture, and is OF
solid walnut finished In oil and shellac.
| The front pipes are orname lted in gold and
coOrs. The dimensions OF the case are "a
follows: Width, Is feet; depth, 10 feet 8
inches; height in front, 10 feet, and back
90 feet. The organ has two manuals and q
pedale. Compass OF manuals from &C 10
CA (5 Octayes) 81 notes. Compass OF pedale
from CCC to ID GA Octayes( q notes. The
stops are rs follows: