Létourneau Pipe Organs, St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada; Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church is a large, welcoming ELCA congregation founded in 1908. Serving the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, the church opened its present sanctuary in 1952 with subsequent additions to the church complex to accommodate the congregation’s growth and needs. An unusually active congregation, Gloria Dei undertakes its outreach and social justice ministries enthusiastically through various environmental, housing, hunger, and advocacy initiatives.
The organ occupies an important position in the life and work of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Having received instruction on the instrument during his youth, he continued to compose for it throughout his life, although he only published two major cycles, Three Preludes and Fugues, opus 37, and Six Sonatas, opus 65.
