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David Tannenberg, Organ Builder (434 words) |
 | From 1765 until his death in 1804, Tannenberg was responsible for the building of over forty organs; most for churches in Pennsylvania but a few for churches as far away as Albany, New York, Frederick, Maryland and Salem, North Carolina. |
| Throughout his career, Tannenberg was highly regarded as an organ builder and was in high demand in the German-speaking communities to provide organs for their churches. |
| Tannenberg's organs have been played in the conventions of the Organ Historical Society, for various music symposiums as well as for many organ recitals. |
| AllRefer.com - Tannenberg, Poland (Polish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (272 words) |
| Formerly in East Prussia, it was transferred (1945) by the Potsdam Conference to Polish administration. |
| In the first, fought in 1410 between Tannenberg and the nearby village of GrUnwald, Polish and Lithuanian forces under Ladislaus II (Ladislaus Jagiello) halted the eastward expansion of the Teutonic Knights. |
| The battle of Tannenberg is a central event in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914 (1972). |
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