Adolphus Busch Hall is one of the buildings of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge Massachusetts is a City in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. The building was originally built to house Harvard's Germanic Museum. The cornerstone was laid in 1912 and the building completed in 1917. The building was not opened to the public until 1921, officially because of a lack of coal. It was named after brewer Adolphus Busch, the president of the Anheuser-Busch company, who had donated $265,000 towards the building. Colonel Adolphus Busch ( July 10, 1839 &ndash October 10, 1913) was the German -born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc ( (ˈænhаɪzər bʊʃ is the largest Brewing company in the United States with a 48
The Germanic Museum evolved into the Busch-Reisinger Museum which holds one of America's finest collections of central and northern European art. The Busch-Reisinger Museum is one of the Harvard Art Museums located in Cambridge Massachusetts and is dedicated to the art of Northern and Central Europe focusing That museum is currently located in another building and Adolphus Busch Hall now houses Harvard University's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies.
The building's Romanesque Hall contains the world-renowned Flentrop organ, on which legendary organist E. Power Biggs made his famous radio broadcasts and long-playing records, and on which the Harvard Organ Society holds regular organ recitals. An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or Orchestra, or accompany Edward George Power Biggs ( March 29, 1906 - March 10, 1977) more familiarly known as E An organ recital is a Concert at which Music especially written for the organ is played
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