Georg Henrich Wagner

Georg Henrich Wagner (* around 1610 ; † February 18, 1686 in Lich ) was a German organ builder who worked in Hesse in the 17th century .

Life

Georg Henrich Wagner was the son of the Lich organ builder Georg Wagner , who became organist at the Marienstiftskirche around 1590 and ran a workshop in Lich. Father and son worked together until 1635, when Georg Henrich's wife Anne Christina and Georg Wagner died from the plague. Georg Henrich took over the office of organist and the workshop from his father and held both for about half a century: "After almost 50 years here from my gracious reign and stiffs, I assumed an organist ...". As an organist, he received 30 guilders a year from the prince in his prime. On October 24, 1636, Georg Henrich Wagner married Elisabeth Schöninger (born September 10, 1620, † August 8, 1693 in Lich), the daughter of Philipp Henrich Schöninger from Lich. Eight children resulted from the marriage, who were born in Lich between 1639 and 1658. The eldest son Johann Georg (born August 16, 1639 in Lich; † May 24, 1688 in Lich) continued the workshop in the fourth generation.

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Georg Henrich Wagner very likely learned organ building in his father's workshop. Georg Henrich Wagner, along with his cousin Ebert (Eberhard) Wagner, is probably one of the two unnamed journeymen on the new organ that his father completed in the Marburg parish church of St. Marien in 1626. From 1638 he can be verified with his own work. Starting from Central Hesse, Georg Henrich Wagner developed a sphere of activity from the Taunus to northern Hesse that was large at the time. Probably due to the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War , his new buildings lagged behind his father's works in terms of size and artistic furnishings. As a rule, his organs had six to nine stops on one manual . The basis was mostly the principal 4 ′. The pedal was attached. The brochures were three-parted for small organs and five-parted for larger organs. In the case of small works, a raised pointed tower was flanked by two flat pipe fields. They had double doors and were decorated with crowning carvings, the veil boards of the pipe fields with flat, openwork carvings. The five-axis prospectuses had a round, raised central tower and two pointed towers on the outside. Two-story flat fields with a third arrangement had a common cornice with the pointed towers and connected the pipe towers. The central pipe of the central tower was always spiral embossed , partly also the means of pipes spiers.

List of works

Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved or only the historical case has been preserved. In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals, a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal, a lower-case "p" indicates a pedal that is only attached. The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers. The last column provides information on the state of preservation or special features.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1638	Wetzlar	Wetzlar Cathedral				New building? 1674 contract for annual tuning, 1682 negotiations with father and son about the implementation and renovation of an organ; not received
1639	Breidenbach	Protestant church		I.	7th	New building with four secondary registers; Replaced in 1767 by Johann Andreas Heinemann ; After the demolition, parts of the inlays and two carved angel heads are said to have been reused in a preserved grandfather clock in Breidenbach
1643	Goat grove	City Church				repair
1647	Nieder-Wildungen	Evangelical town church		II / P	15-20	probably extension conversion; not received
1650	Echzell	Ev. church		I.	9	New building with many complaints; not received
1650	Treysa	Ev. church				repair
1651	Homberg (Ohm)	City Church				New building; later transferred to the Evangelical Church in Büßfeld , received a prospectus there
1652	Altenberg Monastery	Monastery church				New building; Replaced in 1757 by Johann Wilhelm Schöler
1657	Biedenkopf	City church Biedenkopf		I.	8th	New building; Replaced in 1791 by Johannes Schlottmann and sold to Rödgen ( Wilnsdorf )
1658	Rauschenberg	City Church				New building; not received
1659	Dillenburg	Ev. City Church				New building, implemented and modified by Wagner and Son in 1680; Replaced by Florentinus Wang in 1719
1663	Bad Laasphe	Protestant church		I.	9	New building; largely unchanged until 1899, then by new organ of Seifert replaced
1664-1665	Bronnbach Monastery	Monastery church				New building; not received
1669	Hunger	Evangelical town church		I.	6th	1703 sold to Langsdorf Church due to its small size and replaced there by Johann Georg Dreuth in 1756 ; Received draft drawing
1670	Salmunster	St. Peter and Paul		I.	8th	New building; not received
1667-1672	Hofheim am Taunus	St. George		I / p		New building from 1672 with the cooperation of the sons, in 1673 an attached pedal was added; not received
1673	Idstein	Idstein city church				Relocated to the Laurentiuskirche (Arnoldshain) in 1783 and replaced there by Gustav Raßmann in 1860
1680	Ober-Ohmen	Protestant church				New building; Dismantled in 1783 due to dilapidation
1685	Romrod	Ev. City Church				Attribution; Replaced in 1856 by a new building by Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard ; Prospectus received
1686-1687	Amöneburg	St. George				New building; Moved to Wohra in 1827, not preserved
1682	Arnsburg Monastery	Monastery church		II	16	New building; 1688 remaining amount paid to son; 1808/1809 transferred by Johann Georg Bürgy to St. Gallus in Rockenberg , not preserved

literature

• Gerhard Aumüller : History of the organ from Bad Wildungen in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 31, 2009, pp. 111-148.
• Franz Bösken : The organs of the Protestant Marienstiftskirche in Lich (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 2 ). Schott, Mainz 1962.
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bösken: The organs of the Protestant Marienstiftskirche in Lich. 1962, p. 26.
2. ↑ Otto Heuss , Wolfgang Guhswald: 400 years of organ building tradition in Lich. In: Paul Görlich (arr.); Magistrate of the city of Lich (Ed.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. Selbstverlag, Lich 1989, pp. 229–240, here: p. 230.
3. ↑ Aumüller: History of the organ from Bad Wildungen. 2009, p. 124.
4. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/1. 1988, p. 12.
5. ↑ List of works based on Aumüller: History of the Bad Wildungen Organ. 2009, pp. 134-135.
6. ↑ List of works based on Aumüller: History of the Bad Wildungen Organ. 2009, pp. 129-130.
7. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/2. 1975, pp. 828-831.
8. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/1. 1975, p. 96.
9. ↑ Ursula Ostrowski: Four centuries of church music. Ev. Breidenbach Church. Breidenbach 2017, p. 18 f.
10. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/1. 1988, pp. 256-258.
11. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/1. 1975, pp. 128-129.
12. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/1. 1988, pp. 497-498, 550-551.
13. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/1. 1975, pp. 441-442.
14. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2/1. 1975, pp. 30, 462.
15. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/2. 1988, pp. 725-727.
16. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/2. 1988, p. 827.
17. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3/1. 1988, pp. 74-75; Vol. 3/2. Pp. 800-805.