Harm Dieder Kirschner

Harm Dieder Kirschner (* 1962 ) is a master organ builder based in Stapelmoor ( East Friesland ).

Life

From 1982 to 1986 he went to the organ building apprenticeship with Emil Hammer ( Hanover ). Kirschner worked from 1987 to 1991 and from 1995 to 1997 for the organ builder Jürgen Ahrend , from 1991 with Johannes Rohlf and from 1991 to 1994 with Orgelbau Mühleisen ( Leonberg ). He completed the master course at the music school for organ building in Ludwigsburg (1991–94). After running an organ workshop in Weener for ten years (1997–2007), he moved his headquarters to Stapelmoor in 2007 , where a new workshop was built. In October 2009 five employees were employed there. After three months of experimentation with a makeshift foundry in Weener, Kirschner and Winold van der Putten have been running a foundry in Finsterwolde , the Netherlands , since 2001 , where the sand casting process from the 17th century is revived and the pipe material is hammered in the traditional way. For this purpose, Kirschner developed a mechanical hammering machine based on the drawings by Dom Bédos .

In autumn 2008 Kirschner discovered manuscripts from the 15th century during restoration work that had been used to seal the wind bellows of the Burhafer organ . These are copies of the “Summa de vitiis” (“Sum of Vices”), which the Dominican Wilhelmus Peraldus wrote about sin in the 13th century, as well as liturgical fragments. Presumably they come from an abolished monastery and after the Reformation no longer had any value for the Protestant East Frisia.

In 2018, NDR television visited him for a report on the program Hallo Niedersachsen .

plant

The focus of Kirschner's work is on building new organs in northwest Germany. However, he is also active with various plants in the Ruhr area and occasionally internationally. Stylistically, he is not fixed, but builds in a baroque, romantic or modern way. Kirschner has now carried out over 30 organ repairs and stylish restorations.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1997	Westerstede	St. Peter's Church		I.	7th	Chest organ after Gottlieb Näser (1734)
2000		Private		I.	4th	Chest organ
2001-2002	Stiepel	Stiepel village church		I.	5	Chest organ
2001	St. Georgiwold	St. Georgiwolder Church		I / p	5	Relocation of the Jehmlich organ , which was in Duhnen until 2001 (Zimbel II to Octave 4 ′)
2002	Toyota (Aichi) (Japan)	City Concert Hall Nohgakudo		III / P	59	Joint project with John Brombaugh (USA)
2002	Firrel	Andreas Church		I / P	11	modification
2002	Porto (Portugal)	St. Lourenzo		II / P	8th	New building, practice organ
2003	Stiepel	Stiepel village church		II / P	15th	New building based on the baroque style
2005	Hesel	Liudgerikirche		II / P	13	Repair and redesign of the organ by Alfred Führer (1961)
2005	Ringstedt	St. Fabian		II / P	18th	Renovation of the organ by Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1788) and Alfred Führer (1974)
2005	Weener	Private		II / p	2	New wall organ
2006	Muenster	Lukas Church		II / P	22nd	Relocation and intonation of the organ by Gustav Steinmann (1961)
2006	Nenndorf- Tunxdorf	Heart of Mary		II / P	8th	Expansion and rescheduling
2006	Buxtehude	St. Petri		I.	7th	Chest organ with transposition device, which has been in operation in St. Petri Buxtehude since 2010
2007	Weener	Organeum				Organ function model
2008	Norderney	Evangelical island church		III / P	30th	New building in a romantic style
2008	Kuhstedt	Church of the Redeemer		II / P	18th	Renovation of the organ by P. Furtwängler & Hammer (1893)
2008	Duisburg - Hamborn	Hamborn Abbey		III / P	45	Repair of the Mönch organ (1986)
2009	Burhafe	St. Florian Church		I / P	10 (12)	Restoration of the organ by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1794)
2010	Sexbierum (Netherlands)	Sixtuskerk		II / P	22nd	Collaboration in the restoration and expansion of the organ from Bakker en Timmenga (1992) in the case of Albertus Antonius Hinsz (1766–67) by Mense Ruiter ( Zuidhorn )
2012-2013	Circwehrum	Cirkwehrum Church		II / p	8th	extensive renovation of the last organ of the Rohlfs brothers (1877–1879)
2014	Hattingen	Saint George		II / P	31	Restoration of the organ by Christian Roetzel (1830)
2015		Private		II / P	11	New construction of a "Cammer organ" in Cornett tone

literature

• Marc Waskowiak, Reinhard Ruge, Harm Kirschner: The Kirschner organ. Festschrift for the inauguration on May 23, 2008 in the Ev.-luth. Norderney island church . Ed .: Church council of the Ev.-luth. Parish of Norderney. Norderney 2008.
• Jürgen Stasing (Ed.): The Kirschner Organ. Festschrift for the inauguration - Stiepel October 30, 2004 . Evangelical parish of Stiepel, Bochum 2004.

Discography

• The Kirschner organ of the Stiepeler village church . Stiepel 2005. semprelamusica (Michael Goede, organ; Olaf Reimers, violoncello).
• You sing my soul . Stiepel 2008. semprelamusica (Michael Goede, organ and continuo).
• What God does is well done . Stiepel 2009. semprelamusica (Michael Goede, organ; Andreas Post, tenor; Andreas Nachtsheim, Arciliuto).
• More than baroque, trumpet & organ . Norderney 2010. Amis du Barogue (Marc Waskowiak, organ; Karsten Dobermann, trumpet).

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia

Web links

Commons : Harm Dieder Kirschner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kirschner organ building workshop. In: orgelbau-kirschner.de. (official website). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church council of the Ev.-luth. Parish Norderney (ed.): The Kirschner organ. Festschrift for the inauguration on May 23, 2008 in the Ev.-luth. Norderney island church . Norderney 2008, p. 38 .
2. ↑ Rheiderland-Zeitung of June 18, 2015: The man who knows his way around pipes , p. 3, accessed on July 26, 2015.
3. ↑ Ostfriesen-Zeitung of February 6, 2009: Old manuscript found in organ , accessed on July 26, 2015.
4. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/hallo_niedersachsen/Orgel-Handwerk-im-Rheiderland,hallonds45862.html
5. ^ Organ in Toyota , accessed July 26, 2015.
6. ^ Organ in Stiepel , accessed on July 26, 2015.
7. ^ Organ in Norderney , accessed on July 26, 2015.