The original instrument was built around 1730 in a workshop in Kralice and was intended for the then seminary church of St. John in Hradec Králové (now the Municipal Music Hall). According to archival sources, the instrument was moved to St. Joseph’s Chapel at the end of the 19th century, when a new organ was built in St. John’s Church.

In 1940, the instrument was rebuilt by Josef Melzer from Kutná Hora, who preserved only the original baroque case and built a single-manual pneumatic discharge instrument into it. However, this instrument was very defective and by the 1980s it was no longer playable.

Therefore, in 1993, a reconstruction of the instrument was started with the aim of bringing it closer to its original layout. The remains of the traces on the organ case showed that it was originally a two-manual mechanical instrument with a built-in playing table. However, the reconstruction was tied up by lack of funds. Only a few pipe ranks, a fan, and the conservation of the organ case were acquired.

Only in 2008, thanks to a subsidy from the Hradec Králové Region, it was possible to start the reconstruction of this organ. The work was undertaken by the organ builder Ivan Červenka from Jakubovice, who completed the construction of the organ in November 2009. For economy reasons, some registers from the older, already cancelled organ were used.