Gerhard Gregor plays the Prelude to Act 1 of 'Lohengrin' on the Welte organ of the North German Broadcasting studios in Hamburg, recorded in 1931.

Gregor (1906-1981) was the son of a pastor who began playing organ to accompany church services and subsequently silent films. He studied church music under Wolfgang Reimann in Berlin, but then took up a career as a cinema organist. In September 1930, he obtained a position as Organist of the North German Broadcasting studios, where Welte had just installed a new 3 manual 24 rank organ.

I transferred this side from Australian Parlophone A 3502.

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