Hinrich Just Müller

Hinrich Just Müller (* 1740 in Fürstenau ; † August 13, 1811 in Wittmund ) was a German organ builder who came from the Osnabrück region, but was mainly active in East Frisia . He was baptized on February 6, 1740 in Fürstenau.

Life

He is first mentioned as an organ builder in 1760 (journeyman of Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer , from Oldenburg , building the pedal of the organ in Ganderkesee ). A year later he moved to Wittmund and completed the work of the organ builder Constabel in the village of Funnix in 1762 . At the same time, after his death, he also took over the workshop and in 1763 married the bourgeois daughter Teite Maria Rötchers. The marriage resulted in six children, with his eldest son Just Hinrich Müller (but called himself Jobst Wilhelm Henrich) also becoming an organ builder. He later moved back to Fürstenau and started his own business there. Hinrich Just Müller's last activity is documented in Wittmund in 1809, when he was doing repair work on his organ.

plant

The following new buildings by Hinrich Just Müller have been verified and most of them have been preserved. There are also various repair and conversion work. He was active in more than 50 parishes. He is generally described as a solid practitioner and businessman who still possessed sufficient artistic potential. The organ builder Johann Friedrich Wenthin from Emden was generally considered to be his main competitor .

Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved or only the historical case has been preserved. The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1760-1762	Funnix	St. Florian		I / p	8th	New building completed by Johann Friedrich Constabel after his death by Müller
1759-1765	Dunum	Dunum Church		I / p	9	New building; receive
1766	Midlum	Midlum Church		I / p	9	New building; receive; Rückpositiv is a dummy like in Engerhafe and Manslagt → Organ
1771	Eggelingen	St. George Church				Destroyed in 1836
1772	Holtrop	Holtrop Church		I / p	8th	New building; receive
1773-1775	Nortmoor	St. George Church		I / p	8th	New building; receive
1774-1775	Engerhafe	John the Baptist		II / p	13	New building with main and breastworks; the Rückpositiv in the parapet is a dummy; Housing with original prospect pipes preserved, the donkey-back labia in the form of a keel arch indicate an older date (probably late Gothic).
1776	Wittmund	St. Nicolai		II / p	17th	New building; only received prospectus
1777	Simonswolde	Simonswoldmer Church		I / p	7th	New building; receive
1776-1778	Manslagt	Manslagter Church		II / p	15th	New building; receive; Rückpositiv is a dummy.
1780-1781	Carolinensiel	Carolinensieler Church		II / p	11	New building; Half of the pipework preserved
1782	Remels	St. Martin Church		II / p	15th	New building; receive; Müller integrated an older positive from probably Johann Friedrich Constabel (I / 5, 1733) as a return positive
1784-1786	Middels	Middels Church		I / p	8th	New building; receive
1789	Dissen in the Teutoburg Forest	St. Mauritius Church
1793	Loquard	Loquard Church		I / p	8th	New building; only received prospectus
1793	Empty	Luther Church		II / P	30th	New building; only received prospectus
1793	Bundles	reformed Church		II / p	22nd	New building; only received prospectus
1795	Wüppels	Ev.-luth. church		I.	8th	New building without pedal; only received prospectus
1797	Empty harbor	Cäcilien- and Margarethenkirche				New building; not received
1796-1798	Neermoor	reformed Church		I / p	11	New building; receive
1799	Arle	Boniface Church		II / p	18th	New building, built together with Johann Gottfried Rohlfs ; receive
1803-1804	Woquard	Marienkirche		I / p	9	New building; receive

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia - organ topography . Publishing house Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1968.
• Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

See also

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