façade was moved to the Šiluva church around 1895. Several similar organ façades have survived in Latvia: Holy Trinity Church in Liepaja and St. Jacob Church in Riga; today the resemblance is also borne by the organ of the Basilica of Sejny. One of the most nearly situated analogues of the Šiluva organ is the façade of the organ of the Sejny Basilica.
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Both façades are unified by the lying behind them Romantic instruments of the work of the Kaunas master Jonas Garalevičius. However, having researched more thoroughly, the question arises whether the façade of the Sejny Basilica organ is a contemporaneous and authentic Baroque creation or an excellently produced and hidden neo-
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replaced with new ones, leaving only an old and ornate façade and mounting a completely new instrument in the
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baroque imitation. In the second half of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, organs were quite frequently
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inside. The article thoroughly explores the question whether the façade of the organ of the Sejny Basilica is truly a repetition, what its prototype is and whether its author could be the master Jonas Garalevičius. The hypotheses about an initial appearance of the façade of the organ have been raised and related views of earlier published researchers have
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