Organ Sound on Easter

The "Queen of Instruments" will be playing for guests at Merseburg Cathedral on the occasion of Easter. During your visit, listen to the romantic Ladegast organ, one of the most magnificent organs in our region. In the 40-minute devotions with organ music, organists from near and far demonstrate their outstanding skills.

Sunday, 05.04.2026, 3 pm Organ sound for Easter
On the Ladegast organ:Wolfgang Baumgraz - Bremen
Spiritual word: Cathedral preacher Bernhard Halver

Wolfgang Baumgratz is a German organist, church musician and music teacher. Wolfgang Baumgratz received his musical training at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Heidelberg and the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau. This was followed by two years of organ studies on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which he completed in 1978. In 1979, Baumgratz was appointed successor to Zsigmond Szathmáry as cathedral organist at St Peter's Cathedral in Bremen. One year later, he received a teaching position for organ at the University of the Arts (HfK) Bremen. He has been an organ expert for the Bremen Protestant Church since 1982. In 1984 he was appointed professor of organ at the HfK Bremen; in 1989 he became head of the church music department. His concert activities as an organist have taken him all over Europe. In 1990, he became Vice President of the Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde e. V. (GdO), of which he was President from 1998 to 2013. After his retirement in 2014, Wolfgang Baumgratz took on the position of organist (alongside a full-time church musician) at the Protestant parish of St Remberti in Bremen-Schwachhausen, whose Fischer & Krämer organ he had helped design in 1994. Since 2020, he has been organist at the Bremen-Walle Protestant parish association (Immanuelkirche and Alte Waller Kirche).