Van Bever Frères
Van Bever Frères (Flemish Gebroeders Van Bever ) was an organ building company in Laeken / Laken in Belgium from 1880 to 1925.
history
The brothers Adrien (1837–1895), Petrus (1845–1918) and Salomon van Bever (1851–1916) were students and employees of Hippolyte Loret in Laken, and from 1867 in Paris . Salomon worked for Aristide Cavaillé-Coll from 1879 to 1880 .
In 1880 they opened the organ building company Van Bever Frères, ancienne maison H. Loret in Laken. In 1881 they took over the late Loret's workshop in Paris for some time. They later set up a branch in Amiens in northern France . In 1895, Salomon van Bever took over the management alone after Adrien's death. In 1904 the branch in Amiens was closed due to the unrest.
In 1916 François, Louis and Nicholas Draps, Salomon's nephews, took over the company and continued to run it in Laken as Van Bever Frères until 1925.
Work (selection)
The organ building company Van Bever Frères built over 150 organs, mainly in Belgium and northern France, some in Germany, America and Africa.
year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1880 | Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu | Église Saint-Philbert | II / P | 24 | receive | |
1882 | Compiègne | Église Saint-Antoine | II / P | 25th | in housing by Caulier from 1832 | |
1883 | Everberg | Sint Martinus-en-Lodewijkkerk | II / p | 16 | receive | |
1895 | Brussels | Sint Jan-Berchmans College | II / P | 24 (23) | receive | |
1895 | Senlis | Chapelle du Lycée Saint Vincent | II / P | 27 | receive | |
1895 | Rue | Église Saint-Wulphy | II / P | 17th | receive | |
1896 | Le Mans | Collège Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix | II / P | 26th | receive | |
1896 | Abbeville | Chapelle Saint-Pierre | II / P | 18th | receive | |
1898 | Jette | Sint-Pieterskerk | II / P | 32 | receive | |
1900 | Amiens | Église Saint-Rémy | III / P | 39 | receive | |
1901 | Amiens | Église Saint-Acheul | II / P | 19th | receive | |
1901 | Mamers | Église Notre-Dame | II / P | 19th | receive | |
1902 | Lille | Église Saint Sauveur | II / P | 14th | Choir organ preserved | |
1903 | Lille | Église Saint-Sauveur | III / P | 45 | receive | |
1904 | Bruges | Carmelite Church | II / P | 19 (16) | receive | |
1905 | Sint-Agatha-Berchem | Sint-Agathakerk | II / P | 16 | receive | |
1905 | Commodity | Sint-Amandus en Sint-Blasiuskerk | II / P | 27 | Replaced in 1990 | |
1906 | Ukkel | Kerk van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkrans | II / P | 16 | receive | |
1907 | Ternat | Sint-Gertrudiskerk | II / P | 28 | receive | |
1908 | Moustier-sur-Sambre | Église Saint-Frédégand | II / P | 20th | receive | |
1908 | Laeken / Laken | Église Notre-Dame / Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk | II / P | 13 | Choir organ preserved | |
1910 | Brussels | Église Saint-Dominique / Sint-Dominicuskerk | III / P | 36 | receive | |
1912 | Morialmé | Église Saint-Marin | II / P | 19th | receive | |
1914 | Courtrai | Église Saint-Josephe / Sint-Jozefkerk (Carmelites) | III / P | 33 | Destroyed in 1944 | |
1915 | Braine l 'Alleud | Église Saint-Étienne | II / P | 23 | receive | |
1916 | Laeken / Laken | Sint-Lambertuskerk | II / P | 24 (20) | receive |
literature
- Jean-Pierre Félix: Inventaire descriptif des archives des facteurs d'orgues Van Bever (1880-1916) de Laeken-Amiens . 1989
- Malou Haine, Nicolas Meeùs: Dictionnaire des facteurs d'instruments de musique en Wallonie et à Bruxelles du 9e siècle à nos jours . 1986, pp. 411f.
Web links
- Adrien van Bever Inventoryis (Dutch)
- Salomon van Bever Inventoryis (Dutch)
- Gebroeders Van Bever Orgeldatabase, 61 organs (Dutch)
- Adrien Van Bever Palissy, Ministère français de la Culture, some organs in France
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ in Saint-Philbert Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
- ^ Organ in Jette Orgeldatabase
- ^ Organ in Amien's organ database
- ↑ Organ in Mamer's organ database
- ^ Organ in Lille Orgeldatabase
- ↑ Inauguration program (French)
- ↑ organ in Karmelietenkerk Bruuge organ Database
- ^ Organ in Liebfrauenkirche Laken Orgeldatabase
- ↑ Organ in Dominikuskirche Brussels organ database
- ↑ Opening program (French)
- ^ Organ in Kortrijk Orgeldatabase