Adam Gottlob Casparini

Adam Gottlob Casparini (born April 15, 1715 in Breslau ; † May 13, 1788 in Königsberg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Adam Gottlob Casparini was born in 1715 as the son of the organ builder Adam Horatio Casparini (1676–1745) and thus the grandson of the most famous organ builder of the family , Eugenio Casparini (1623–1706). He spent his apprenticeship in his father's workshop, from 1735 he went on a journey. From 1735 to Pentecost 1737 he worked as a journeyman with Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost in Altenburg in Thuringia , who at this time (1735–1739) built the organ of the castle church there. After resigning from Trost, with whom he had had a falling out about the success of the Altenburg organ, he repaired the organ in the town church in Lucka , which Johann Christoph Oehme had built in 1705 , before returning to his father's workshop in 1737. His participation in the construction of the organ of the Church of St. Adalbert in Breslau and the Dominican Church in Glogau is documented.

After the death of his cousin Georg Sigismund Caspari on April 4, 1741, who left four underage children, he immediately traveled to Königsberg, where he arrived in June 1741, took over the workshop and presented himself personally to the War and Domain Chamber in August . On November 11, 1741, he wrote his request for the privilege of being a “Royal Prussian court organ builder”. He was able to receive the corresponding document about this on February 22, 1742, after having made a donation of 60 Rthlr. paid to the recruiting fund and another 17 Rthlr., 21 Gl. had paid to settle the stamp and sealing fees.

After establishing himself in Königsberg and buying a house on Steindamm , he married Elisabeth Horining around 1746. The daughter of a lawyer gave birth to a son and a daughter; she died around 1752 giving birth to her third child. After a few years, Casparini married Anna Barbara Seidenhefter from Königsberg, with whom he had three other daughters. His son did not enter the organ building trade.

He died on May 17, 1788 without prior illness, because in a footnote to his printed funeral sermon it says: “The Wolselige only complained the day before, and seyne Kranckheyt, which was a severe type of chest cramp, did not grant much over 24 hours . "

Works

Casparini took over the Georg Sigismund Casparis workshop including the small and largely used inventory that was found. The conditions found by Casparini must have been downright poor, because Caspari could not even pay his journeyman Johann Heinrich Westhoff his weekly wages and had to use used pipes from his workshop for his last organ in Marggrabowa . Nevertheless, Casparini apparently managed to build a reputation within a very short time through the practical proof of his skills, which enabled him to build 45 new organs in the more than 40 years of his activity from Königsberg. The organ in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Wilna is the only completely preserved organ from his rich opus, parts of his organs can still be found in Mühlhausen (Kr. Preußisch Holland) , Leunenburg and Barten . A plundered prospectus has been preserved in Klein Jerutten .

His best-known students are Johann Preuss (1722–1798), who became a competitor after completing his apprenticeship, and Christoph Wilhelm Braweleit (1751–1795), who was his successor in Königsberg.

List of works

All 44 known new organs, attributions and offers are listed, as well as 24 conversions and repairs with non-executed offers. 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 in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers . Place names in bold indicate that either parts of the organ or the entire instrument have been preserved to this day. If two years are given, the first usually indicates the year of the cost estimate or the conclusion of the contract, the second usually the completion or acceptance of the instrument. The organs are sorted according to the year of completion, as the organ could be used from this point in time.

The list of new constructions, conversions and repairs mainly follows the overview in the history of organ building in East and West Prussia . The explanations in the "Comments" column were also compiled from the individual representations available there.

New buildings

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1735-1737	Altenburg , Saxe-Gotha	Castle Church		II / P	36	Participation in the new building by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost , organ largely preserved, restored 1974–1976
1737	Wroclaw , Silesia	St. Adalbert		II / P	22nd	Collaboration in the new building of the father Adam Horatio Casparini , not preserved; also participated in Glogau , Dominican Church
1741/1742	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	St. Georgen Hospital		I.		It was an organ positive , which is attested by a letter from 1746. Further information is not known, which also relates to the whereabouts of the instrument.
1741/1744	Mühlhausen (Kr. Prussian Holland) , today Młynary	Ev. Church, now a Catholic Church		I / P	21st	The contract of October 2, 1741 has been handed down, as well as a range of information about the construction and financing of the organ. It is considered Casparini's "Probstück für Ostpreußen", although the construction was delayed until 1744 due to financial problems of the community and the acceptance only took place with an expert opinion of July 28, 1745. In 1924 the organ got an electric blower , in 1927 the organ builder Werner Renkewitz replaced the prospect pipes delivered during the First World War with zinc ones , the organ building company Wittek from Elbing carried out a cleaning and tuning. At the end of the Second World War , almost all metal pipes were stolen, most of the wooden pipes were preserved. In 1971 there was an inventory and a partial restoration, but not according to historical criteria.
1744	Grodno , today Hrodna, Belarus	Jesuit Church , today Franz Xaver Cathedral				uncertain attribution: an organ builder from Königsberg ; receive
1745	Leunenburg , today Sątoczno	Ev. Parish church , today the Catholic Church of Christ the King		I.	11	Casparini used an existing case for this organ; originally it only had one manual. An independent pedal with 6 registers was only added by Johann Preuss in 1770 . In 1855 the organ was damaged by a lightning strike in the church, and repairs followed. The organ builder Max Terletzki built a new organ with II / P, 23 in the historic case in 1886. His work is preserved with the historical prospectus from Casparini.
1744/1747	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Altroßgärter Church		II / P	27	The contract of April 17, 1744 has been handed down. The acceptance took place on March 10, 1747 by Gottfried Podbielski, the organist of the church. In 1786 it was repaired by the builder. In 1897 Max Terletzki built a new organ in the historic case, now with three manuals and a pedal. In 1913 the Wilhelm Sauer company again built a new instrument in the Casparini case. The movement and case were destroyed by fighting in 1944/1945.
1748/1749	Soldau	Ev. church		II / P	25th	Casparini built a new organ in 1748/1749 in the church, which was rebuilt between 1738 and 1740 after a fire in 1734. The contract had already been drawn up by Johann Josua Mosengel before the aforementioned fire in 1722 and was no longer implemented due to various discrepancies during his lifetime. The contract passed to his successor Georg Sigismund Caspari , who died in 1741. After the church was rebuilt around 1740, his former journeyman Gerhard Arend Cell offered to build the organ according to the old contract of 1722. However, since Casparini was privileged as a court organ builder in 1742, the government now ordered that he should build the organ in Zell's place. This long history of organ building explains that the Mosengel disposition of 1722 still provided for a Rückpositiv, which had meanwhile gone out of fashion. Whether the organ was actually built as in the traditional design from 1722 and in particular with a Rückpositiv can no longer be determined, as the organ burned in 1794 and no further evidence has survived.
1749/50	Barten , today Barciany	Ev. Church , today the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary		I.	12	The organ was built without a pedal; such a pedal was only added in 1861 by the organ builder Johann Rohn from Wormditt . Before that, the organ builder Johann Scherweit had extensively restored the organ in 1820. In 1934 the instrument was unplayable, but apart from the prospect pipes handed in during the First World War, it was largely preserved, so that the Emanuel Kemper company carried out repairs to the factory by adding the prospect pipes that year. The original keyboard that was replaced was kept and could thus be used in 2003 for the reconstruction of the Casparini organ in Vilnius . The organ is preserved.
1749/1750	Swerving	Ev. church		I.	10	The contract of March 15, 1749 has been handed down, the handover of the organ took place in 1750. It was repaired in 1787 by Johann Preuss (organ builder) . In 1913, Bruno Goebel built a new building for his Opus 311 with 12 registers on two manuals and pedal using pneumatic action , whereby he continued to use the Casparini case. A photo of the church available on the Internet from 2009 shows the church preserved, but in a poor and dilapidated condition or with a collapsed - obviously worn - roof structure. Nothing can be seen of the organ anymore.
around 1750	Haffstrom	Ev. church		I / P	7th	The organ was built around 1750 for the church in Haffstrom and moved to Scharnau in 1851 . Obviously a pedal with 2 registers was added to this measure. The organ was rebuilt in 1912. Further messages are not available, the organ has not been preserved.
1751	Pillau	Alt Pillau Church (Pillau II)		I.	8th	The contract of July 24, 1750 has been handed down, and the attribution and year of construction were secured by the traditional inscription on the largest prospect pipe, according to which the work was "made October 4, 1751". The organ had 8 registers on one manual, there was no pedal. In 1901 the organ had to give way to a new building by Carl Novak , which was built into the old case with II / P / 12 and pneumatic action.
1751	Kumilsko	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Finance" from 1785. Details of the instrument are not known, in 1849 it burned.
1744/1752	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Tragheimer Church		II / P	30th	The contract from 1744 has been handed down. However, the organ was not completed until 1752. Of the 30 sounding registers, 13 were heard in the main manual, 9 in the upper section and 8 in the pedal. In this organ Casparini built the Jula 8 ′ register for the first time. Already in 1783 the organ was destroyed by a fire in the church.
1752	Jerutten	Ev. church				There are no archives about the construction of the Casparini organ, only that it was given a new color version in 1782/1783 is known. In 1858 the organ builder Ferdinand Scherweit rebuilt the organ and expanded it. In 1911 Carl Novak repaired the work again before Bruno Goebel built a new organ with II / P / 14 in the Casparini case. Looting of the plant after the Second World War resulted in only a few wooden pipes remaining next to the historic case.
1753	Mierunsken	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Finance" from 1785. Details of the instrument are not known, in 1945 it was destroyed together with the church - of which only a ruin has survived.
1752/1754	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Haberberger Trinitatis Church		probably III / P	48	The disposition of this organ - which was Casparini's second largest instrument - has not been passed down. In 1902 Wilhelm Sauer installed a new organ with III / P / 50 in the historic case, which had to be significantly expanded for this purpose. The organ also received a new console in front of the plant. The linked picture shows the state in 1929, i.e. after the new building by Sauer. The organ and church were destroyed in 1945.
1752/1755	Gumbinnen	Old town church		I / P	16	The contract of May 1, 1752 has been handed down. The organ was finished in November 1755, and after a four-day examination , Cantor G. Schulz from Insterburg accepted it. In 1898 Wilhelm Sauer built a new organ in the existing case. Both were destroyed in the fighting in 1945.
1755	Koenigsberg i. Pr.-Neuendorf	Ev. church		I.	6th	It was a positive organ, which Ferdinand Scherweit moved from its original place on the gallery to one side of the church in 1850 . The plant received new play equipment and mechanics . The disposition has been handed down from a record from 1894. In 1925 a new organ was installed in the church, so the positive organ - albeit unplayable - could be set up in the old auditorium of the Musicological Institute of Königsberg University . It was still there in 1942, but was most likely destroyed in 1944/1945.
around 1755	Digging	Ev. church		I.		Attribution based on an “inventory of the Ministry of Finance” from the year 1785. Details about the instrument are not known, but it is described in the above list as “now unusable”. In 1799, George Adam Neppert from Insterburg built a new organ for the church.
1756	Tin	Ev. church		I / P	18th	Cost estimate from Casparini from 1747, forwarded to the budget ministry for approval in 1749, due to financial difficulties, the order was not placed until 1751. The inauguration of the organ, the 700 Rthlr. took place on the 7th Sunday after Trinity in 1756. In 1788, 1817 and 1846 the organ was repaired. In 1902, the organ builder Paul Voelkner from Bromberg built a new organ, using the Casparini prospectus again in a different form. In 1945 the organ with the church was destroyed. Today only a fragment of the wall of the church tower stands.
1753/1757	Joneykischken , Neukirch since 1770	Ev. church		I.	13	The cost estimate of July 11, 1753 and the contract for an organ with 12 registers signed exactly one year later with the same wording have been handed down. The government tried to implement a draft reduced by two registers, but the municipality was able to implement the larger version. The installation lasted until the end of 1756, the completion was declared in a document dated January 21, 1757. Casparini had made a register beyond the contract. The organ rehearsal was carried out on March 9, 1757 by the Tilsit cantor JH Härtel without objection. In 1839 the organ builder Eduard Kaul from Königsberg i. Pr. The organ around a pedal with three registers. In 1934 Eduard Wittek converted the mechanical sliding drawer to pneumatic actuation. The church was not destroyed in 1945, but only a ruin remains today. The organ is probably destroyed or lost, nothing is known about its whereabouts.
1754/1760	Gumbinnen	Reformed Church, also called New Town Church		I / P	20th	The contract of July 16, 1754 has been handed down. The acceptance of the organ was planned for after Michaelis 1755, but was delayed on the one hand due to an overload of Casparini, on the other hand due to the warlike events around the Seven Years War , in which Gumbinnen was occupied by the Russians on January 13th, 1757 . The completion took place - after a warning from the community in August 1760 - in autumn of the same year. In 1903 Bruno Goebel built a new organ in the historic Casparini case. Both the organ and the case were destroyed in 1944.
1760	Lamgarben	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Finance" from 1785. Details of the instrument are not known.
1760	Tollmingkehmen	Ev. church				A file find from 2008 substantiates this new organ. Details of the instrument are not known.
1752/1763	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Old Town Church of St. Nikolaus (Königsberg)		III / P	65	The contract has not been handed down, so the disposition of this largest organ from Casparini's workshop is also unknown. All that has been handed down is that 22 of the 65 registers were lingual registers . In 1771 the builder carried out repairs. When the church was closed in 1824 and then demolished, the organ was taken over in the new building, the New Old Town Church , and installed there by Johann Scherweit . In 1895 a new building followed by Max Terletzki with III / P / 52, who also manufactured a new case and integrated only a few parts of Casparini's into his new building. A few individual parts of the Casparini case, in particular 8 figures (including two timpani angels with movable arms) as well as parts of the frame with fillings, were transferred to the Königsberg Museum of Applied Arts and are likely to have perished there during the war in 1944/1945.
1756/1763	Sirgupon	Ev. church				Attribution based on a letter from Casparini dated July 5, 1756, in which he mentions a new building planned for the following year in this church. It can therefore be assumed that a corresponding contract had already been concluded at that time. In an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from the year 1785, there is a note that the organ was completed in 1763 and "was ruined by lightning around 1785". Details of the instrument are not known.
1763/1764	Neukirch b. Frauenburg	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Finance" from 1785. Details of the instrument are not known.
1760/1765	Bishtheim	Ev. church				In a letter of October 18, 1765, Casparini himself mentions this organ: “... what Ewer Hochwohl mentioned from a foreign work in Bischtheim, that I promoted the same and failed to do the domestic work, so that I concluded the same contract on May 3, 1760 because at the same time nobody in Prussia thought of organs ... " . So the contract was signed on May 3, 1760. No further information is available about the organ.
1760/1765	Rössel	Catholic parish church		probably II / P	approx. 30	The contract has not been handed down. However, it is known that Casparini received a total of 5,271.21 marks over the period from 1761 to 1766, and the sculptor Bernhard Schmidt who took part received a further 675 marks for the “magnificent prospectus”. From this, Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer derive a possible organ size of two manuals and a pedal with around 30 registers. According to the other information there, the date of completion of the organ is to be set for October 1, 1765. The organ burned down together with the church in the great city fire on May 27th and 28th, 1806.
1765	Kallningken	Ev. church		I.	7th	It was an organ positive. Attribution based on an “inventory list of the budget ministry” from 1785. The instrument was replaced in 1898 by a new organ builder who could not be identified.
1756/1766	Sensburg	Ev. church		I.	8th	The contract of October 26, 1756 has been handed down. Completion was, however, severely delayed by the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) and financial difficulties. The organ was not installed until 1766. In 1836 Johann Scherweit carried out a major repair before an unnamed organ builder set up a new organ in the Casprini case. This happened in 1877, the new instrument had two manuals and 14 stops.
1767	Dollstädt	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785. No further information is available about the organ.
1763/1768	Germau	Ev. church		I / P	16	The contract of November 30, 1763 has been handed down, it names 14 registers. Casparini built two tongue registers beyond the contract. In a detailed letter dated October 18, 1765, Casparini gave the reasons why he had not yet been able to deliver the organ - the completion of which had been agreed by the summer of this year. Construction did not begin until May 1767. The organ was completed on October 13, 1767, the acceptance test should be scheduled, but this was delayed until 1768. In 1803 Wilhelm Scherweit repaired the organ, into which he had already installed a carillon before this repair. In 1842 Johann Scherweit repaired the organ and made a change in disposition, in 1874 Ferdinand Scherweit romanticized the organ with another change. 1905–1907 Carl Novak converted the organ to pneumatic cone chests . In 1945 the church was destroyed.
1756/1769	Coadjuthen , today Knyčiai, Lithuania	Ev. church		I.	8th	The contract of January 17, 1756 has been handed down. Completion was, however, severely delayed by the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). According to the information in the "Inventory of the Ministry of Budget" from 1785, the organ was not installed until 1769. In 1903 Carl Novak rebuilt the organ and partially renewed it. Since then it has had 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal. Nothing is known about the further whereabouts of the organ.
1768/1769	Gurnen	Ev. church		I.	8th	The contract of May 18, 1768 has been handed down, it names 8 stops on a manual without a pedal. According to the “Inventory List of the Budget Ministry” from 1785, the organ burned in 1775.
1768/1769	Bludau	Catholic Church				Attribution based on an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785. In 1900 the organ work was renewed, in 1917 the prospect pipes had to be delivered for war purposes. Further information about this organ is not known.
1764/1770	Nordenburg	Ev. church		I / P	16	The contract was signed in 1764, but has not survived. The completion of this organ was also severely delayed by the consequences of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), because Casparini now had to work through the orders that had not been completed during the war. The organ was completed in 1770. The disposition is not known, but the number of registers is known. In 1937 the organ was rebuilt by the Emanuel Kemper company , the mechanical sliding drawers were replaced by pneumatic cone drawers and a new console was manufactured. Obviously, the pipework for the organ now equipped with II / P / 21 was largely reused. The church was destroyed in 1945, today only the ruins of the tower remain.
1770	To hear	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Finance" from 1785. The organ was broken off around 1880.
1772	Grünhayn	Ev. church				Casparini probably built a positive organ here. Attribution based on an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785. No further information is available about the instrument.
1776	Vilnius , today Vilnius	Holy Spirit Church (Dominican Church)		II / P	32	Almost no changes, around 1900 new keyboards, 2006 restoration by UAB Vilniaus Vargonu Dirbtuve, Rimantas Gučas in collaboration with GOArt, Sweden → Organ
1782	Scabienes	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785. No further information is available about the organ.
1785	Paaris	Ev. church				Attribution based on an “inventory list of the budget ministry” from 1785. In 1899 the organ was replaced by a new instrument by Bruno Goebel .
1785	Willkischken	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785. Obviously, Casparini no longer works on organ building himself this year, but largely entrusted the work to his employees. He obviously planned this organ himself, but he entrusted the installation to George Adam Neppert . No further information is available about the organ itself, but the church had to be demolished in 1895 due to dilapidation. Since a new organ was built into the new building, the Casparini / Neppert organ must be viewed as having perished.
1785	Kraupischken	Ev. church				Attribution based on an "inventory of the Ministry of Budget" from 1785. The organ was started by Casparini, but completed by his journeyman George Adam Neppert .
?	Szerowicz, today Žyrovicy (Жыровіцы), Belarus				? further information not yet to be determined

The organ from 1763/64 for the Jesuit church in Polotsk was probably built by Nicolaus Jantzon , but attributed to Casparini in older literature. The prospectus is preserved in St. John's Church in Vilnius .

New construction offers that were not carried out by Casparini

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1742	Wargs	Ev. church				Casparini's proposal for a new building, which was never implemented.
1747	Arys	Ev. church		I.	12	Casparini's proposal for a new building with 12 registers on a manual without a pedal was known, but was not implemented because the design was described as too expensive and Casparini was described as "overloaded". The new building was carried out in 1755 with 8 registers by Johann Preuss .
1767	Schmoditten	Ev. church		I.	10	Casparini's proposal for a new building with 10 stops on a manual without a pedal is known, but it was never implemented. The new building was carried out in 1768 with 8 registers by Johann Preuss .
1783	Marggrabova	Ev. church				Negotiations about the construction of a new organ, which however do not lead to the construction of an organ.
1787/1788	Goldap	Ev. Old church , today cath. Marienkirche.				Obviously Casparini no longer worked on organ building himself during these years, but largely left the work to his employees. The organ in Goldap was made by his journeyman Christoph Wilhelm Braweleit on behalf of Casparini, and Casparini's assistant Johann Christian Mirau (a student of Friedrich Rudolf Dalitz ) was involved. In 1880 the organ was replaced by an instrument from Wilhelm Sauer's workshop .
1786/1794	New Pillau	Ev. Fortress church		I.	17th	Casparini's estimate of the new building dated March 25, 1786 with 17 registers on a manual and pedal has come down to us, which, however, was due to long-standing disputes between Casparini and the Berlin organ builder Ernst Marx , who had been asked by the community as an expert to examine the offer , did not come to fruition. The new building was built in 1794/1795 with 16 registers by Christoph Wilhelm Braweleit .

Repairs, overhauls, modifications

Repairs and modifications as well as offers that have not been carried out are specified.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1737	Lucka , Saxe-Gotha	St. Pancras				Conversion on behalf of Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost
1741/1742	Stradaunen , today Straduny	Ev. Church , today Church of Mary Queen of Poland		I.	12	In connection with the new organ in the Ev. Church to Marggrabowa by Georg Sigismund Caspari in 1741 the old organ there was sold to Stradaunen. Adam Gottlob Casparini was commissioned to rebuild and set up the old organ. In 1922 Bruno Goebel built a new organ with II / P / 15 in the historic case, his Opus 342. This instrument - and with it the older case already used by Casparini - has been preserved to this day.
1743 or 1745	Herrndorf	Ev. church				Repair and installation of new prospect pipes for 70 Rthlr.
1746/1747	Milks	Ev. church				Reconstruction of the organ
1746/1747	Bartenstein	Ev. City Church				repair
1748	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Castle Church		II / P	30th	Repair of the Caspari organ from 1734.
1753	Darkehmen	Ev. church				Reconstruction of an older organ, probably from Königsberg i. Pr.-Tragheim. The church was dilapidated in 1836 and was replaced by a new building.
1753	Wielitzken	Ev. church				Transfer of an older organ from Prussian Eylau with I / 11. In 1908 Carl Novak built a new organ.
1759	Frauenburg	Dom				The estimate submitted by Casparini for an organ repair was not carried out.
1763	Mühlhausen (Kr. Prussian Holland) , today Młynari	Ev. church				Repair of the organ completed by Casparini in 1744.
1766	Pobethen	Village church				Repair of the organ built by Johann Josua Mosengel in 1697 .
1766	Zastawno Schönberg (Kr.Preuss. Holland)	Ev. church				Repair of an organ positive acquired from Stalle in 1763.
1766	Friedland	Ev. St. George Church				The estimate submitted by Casparini for a repair of the organ built by Johann Josua Mosengel in 1724 was not carried out.
1767	Icon tones	Ev. church				Repair of the organ.
1771	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Old Town Church of St. Nikolaus (Königsberg)		III / P	65	Repair of the organ completed by Casparini in 1763.
1773	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Koenigsberg Cathedral		III / P	62	Repair estimate for the organ completed by Johann Josua Mosengel in 1721, cost: 1,800 thalers, was not carried out.
1774	Nordenburg	Ev. church		I.		Repair of an older organ positive.
1774	Darkehmen	Ev. church				Repair of the organ.
1778	Kaymen	Ev. church				Repair of the organ built in 1706 by Johann Josua Mosengel.
1779	Mühlhausen, district of Prussian Eylau	Village church				Repair of the organ.
1779	Schönwalde b. Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Ev. church				Repair of the organ.
circa 1780	Legitten	Ev. church		I.		Repair of an organ positive.
1784	Paterswalde	Ev. church				Repair of the organ.
1785	Laptau	Ev. church				Repair of the organ.
1786	Koenigsberg i. Pr.	Altroßgärter Church		II / P	27	Repair or maintenance of the organ built by Casparini himself in 1747.

literature

• Hans Davidsson: The restoration of the Adam Gottlob Casparini organ in Vilnius: a global cultural heritage project. In: Massimiliano Guido (ed.): Arte organaria italiana e germanica tra Rinascimento e Barocco . Trient 2007, p. 141-144 (Atti del Convegno internazionale Trento - Smarano, 3-5 September 2004).
• Felix Friedrich: Adam Gottlob Casparini and Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost. Journeyman and teacher . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 , 2008, p. 67-72 .
• Julian Gembalski: The activity of the Casparini family and their contribution to organ building in Silesia . In: Music of the East . tape 9 , 1983, pp. 147-167 .
• Alfred Reichling, Jan Janca: Casparini, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part band 4 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Sp. 369–373.
• Jan Janca: The competition between the organ builders Obuch (Mohrungen) and Casparini (Königsberg) in the years 1741–1750 . In: Musica Baltica (Greifswald Contributions to Musicology, Vol. 4) . Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 283-294 .
• Jan Janca: Wybór organowych dyspozycji Adama Gottloba Caspariniego [A selection of organ arrangements by Adam Gottlob Casparini] . In: Organy i muzyka organowa [organ and organ music] . tape 12 . Akademia Muzyczna, Gdańsk 2003, p. 138-159 .
• Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : Adam Gottlob Casparini (1715–1788) . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 , 2008, p. 73-88 .
• Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia, Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-921140-80-2 .
• Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Portraits of East Prussian churches . tape 2 . Goettingen 1968.

Web links

• Adam Gottlob Casparini in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 302.
2. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt 1980, p. 196.
3. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 304.
4. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 305-312.
5. ↑ quoted from Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 317.
6. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 326-330.
7. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, list of works on pp. 326–330, individual representations on pages 331–453.
8. ↑ Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 304
9. ↑ Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 316.
10. ↑ The acceptance report was signed by Gottfried Podbielski (1689–1763), who was the organist of the Altroßgärter Church in Königsberg from 1709–1753 , then succeeded his brother Christoph Podbielski, who died in 1753, at the cathedral there until his death.
11. ↑ Jesuits Church in Grodno (English)
12. ↑ Information about the organ in Hrodna Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
13. ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bottom photo of the organ, seen on July 12, 2017. 
14. ↑ The last organ to be built in East Prussia with a Rückpositiv is generally considered to be the organ of the Königsberg Castle Church, which was built in 1726 under Mosengel's supervision by Georg Sigismund Caspari .
15. ↑ Description of the organ ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as seen on July 13, 2017. The year of construction is 1750, while Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer state 1749 on p. 327 and p. 365. 
16. ↑ Church Abschwangen on Panoramio.com , as viewed on July 13, 2017
17. ↑ Alte Kirche Abschwangen with a collapsed roof , seen on July 13, 2017 and Alte Kirche Abschwangen, burned roof truss remains , seen on July 13, 2017.
18. ↑ quoted from Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 376. Since the prospectus pipes were handed in in 1917, the original inscription is lost today and only the wording is known from a recording on a questionnaire from 1917.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 327.
20. ↑ Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 397.
21. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
22. ↑ He was currently working on the new organ for the Old Town Church in Königsberg i. Pr., So that these orders overlap
23. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 328.
24. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 328.
25. ↑ quoted from Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 408.
26. ↑ The location could not be determined precisely, it may be the former village of Neukirch Höhe , which is about 10 km from Frauenburg.
27. ↑ The location could not yet be determined. The term foreign in the excerpt from the letter from 1765 quoted in the comment column should refer to Warmia - based on the political conditions at the time . Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer therefore suspect that the place "Bischdorf, Kr. Rössel " could be meant here, today's Sątopy-Samulewo district of the Polish city of Bischofstein . However, this cannot be confirmed with certainty.
28. ↑ quoted from Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 411.
29. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 407, there also the quotation for the prospectus.
30. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 329.
31. ↑ According to Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer, this new building could be assigned to Max Terletzki, but not with sufficient certainty. The instrument did not last long, because in 1912 another new building was carried out by an organ builder who was not mentioned. Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer suspect the Wittek workshop from Elbing here.
32. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
33. ↑ A distinction was made between the two places " Klein Szabienen " and " Königlich Szabienen ". Although the name "Szabienen" was used until around 1785 for the place called Königlich Szabienen from that time onwards, the organ must have been built in Klein Szabienen, as Königlich Szabienen obviously did not have its own church and was looked after by the church in Klein Szabienen was, s. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 478
34. ↑ ^{a b c d} Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 330.
35. ↑ The information about this new organ is apparently from Renkewitz / Janca / Fischer
36. ^ Felix Friedrich: Adam Gottlob Casparini and Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost. Journeyman and teacher . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 , 2008, p. 67-72 . , with description of the renovation and Casparini's disposition
37. ↑ Description of the organ ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as seen on July 11, 2017.