Takácsy Ignácz (1830–1906) orgonaépítő 60. alkotása Hunyadi János kolostortemplomában

The organ builder Ignácz Takácsy (1830-1906), whom I have researched, was one of the most prolific organ builders in Transylvania. I was saddened to find that the literature contains only a negligible amount of information about this master, who was active for 40 years (1860-1900) and made 79 organs. It has become increasingly clear that there is a huge lack of information about our organ builders and the instruments they built in Transylvania. With my work, I would like to join the ranks of those who have undertaken the task of uncovering this extremely incomplete segment of our history at the archival level. However, I am not specifically researching the organ history of a particular religious denomination, but rather, unusually, I am focusing on the lives and work of two organ builders in particular. Ignácz Takácsy (1830-1906) and his pupil István Vass (1852-1921) were two of the most important organ builders in Târgu Mureș and its surroundings in the second half of the 19^th century. I am trying to reconstruct their biographies on the basis of the archival sources available, so my work is primary research. Similarly, I am trying to learn the history of the new organs they built (about 95) and the numerous repairs and modifications they made. In this way, I will know the antecedents, the processes and the fate of the organs for more than a hundred years. Hopefully, my thesis will not only be a tribute to these two great masters, but also to our faithful ancestors, whose main desire and intention was to praise God with the sound of the organ. In this study, I would like to illustrate the history of an organ built in a very special place in my research, which is the 60^thwork of Ignácz Takácsy. This instrument was built in 1890 for the Catholic church of Teiuș in Alba County, one of the oldest in Transylvania.