The Frauenkirche in Dresden, a historic church destroyed by bombing in World War II, has been reconstructed to serve as a place for church services and cultural events  The foundation doing the reconstruction took extraordinary care to return the church to its original form
It is a puzzle, then, why the foundation chose not to rebuild the eighteenth-century baroque organ originally designed for the church and instead built a modern organ, even though a donor had offered to pay the full cost of rebuilding the original
By the time the church was destroyed in World War II, the eighteenth-century baroque organ had been modified several times.