Adam Horatio Casparini

Sun organ in Görlitz

Adam Horatio Casparini (also Horatius , Orazio ; born July 29, 1676 in Padua , Italy , † August 11, 1745 in Breslau , Lower Silesia ) was an important German organ builder in Silesia.

Life

Angel in Grünberg

Adam Horatio Casparini was born in Padua in 1676. He was based in Breslau. His father Eugenio Casparini and his son Adam Gottlob Casparini were also important organ builders.

Works

The organs in Wrocław (Breslau), now Oratorium Marianum and Wołów (Wohlau), as well as brochures in Görlitz ( sun organ ), Jelenia Góra (Grünberg) and Legnickie Pole (Wahlstatt), here in bold type, have been preserved.

In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal . The Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1697	Lower maize near Merano					Probably together with his father.
1703	Goerlitz	Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul (Görlitz)		III / P	57	Sonnenorgan , with father, prospectus received, today organ by Mathis Orgelbau with IV / P / 88.
1706	Deer Mountain (Jelenia Góra)	Kath: Parish Church of St. Erasmus and Pankratius		III / P	43	Begun in 1703 by his father, completed by Adam Horatio according to his father's plans. Rebuilt in 1749 after a fire in the church by Johann Meinert from Lähn . Repaired in 1863 by the company Schlag & Söhne , replaced in 1905/1906 by a new building from the same company with III / P / 60. The Casparini prospectus was still used and has been preserved to this day.
1709	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	St. Bernard Church		III / P	31	Today museum for architecture, organ obviously not preserved.
1712	Ohlau (Oława)	City parish church		II / P	22nd	Probably destroyed
1715	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	Church of St. Christopher		I.	14th	The organ is not preserved.
1716	Wohlau (Wołów)	Lorenz Church		II / P	20th	The organ is largely original. The disposition was changed only slightly in the 19th century. In 2001 the organ was restored by the Chrobak workshop from Wroclaw.
1716	Goerlitz	Trinity Church		II / P	16	Organ not preserved.
1716	Gross Weigelsdorf	Ev. church		I (/ P?)	13	Organ not preserved.
1718	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	Elisabeth Church , now Oratorium Marianum		I.	16 (14?)	Organ positive, last kept on the southern gallery of the Elisabethkirche, damaged in the war. The parts survived the fire in the church in 1976. 1999 Restoration by Richard Jacoby, Kassel, and installation in the Oratorium Marianum, today's concert and ballroom of the University of Breslau .
1718	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	St. John's Cathedral , choir organ		I.	10	Organ not preserved.
1721-1725	Czestochowa (Częstochowa)	Jasna Góra , Chapel of the Image of Our Lady (Kaplicy obrazu Matki Bożej)		I.	9	Organ not preserved.
1731	Wahlstatt (Legnickie Pole)	St. Hedwig Church		II / P	24	At least the case has been preserved, parts of the organ may also come from Casparini.
1735	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	Eleven Thousand Virgins Church				In 1806 the church was demolished and the organ was probably removed in the process.
1737	Wroclaw (Wroclaw)	Adalbertkirche		II / P	22nd	The organ is not preserved.

literature

• Douglas E. Bush: Casparini (Caspari) . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 96-97 .
• [Arrey] v. Dommer: Casparini (Caspar), family . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . tape 4 . Berlin 1876, p. 55 f .
• 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 .
• Salomon Kümmerle: Caspar, Caspari, Casparini, family . In: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music . tape 1 . Gütersloh 1888, p. 217 f .
• Wiktor Z. Lyjak: Adam Orazio Casparini i jego Jasnogórskie dziela . In: Studia Claromontana . tape 20 , 2002, p. 141-191 .
• Alfred Reichling and Jan Janca : Casparini, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part band 4 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Sp. 369–373.
• Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca and Hermann Fischer: History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 . II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008.

Web link

• Organ builder Brandenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For the organs that are no longer available , see also  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) organ database
2. ↑ Jelenia Góra, Church of St. Erasmus and Pankratius with history, photo and current disposition (Polish)
3. ↑ 20 photos (Polish)
4. ↑ About an organ concert in St. Peter and Paul in Oława 2014, mentions organ building from 1712, but as a past instrument, no entries in Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, MusicamSacram and Orgeldatabase, former organ in organ database
5. ^ Disposition in the collection of some news items from famous organ works in Germany . Carl Gottfried Meyer, Breslau 1757, p. 73.
6. ↑ Wołów, Church of St. Laurentius Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, with history, photo and current disposition (Polish)
7. ↑ Source: Data record from the organ database ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 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. . 
8. ↑ Source: Data record from the organ database ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 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. . 
9. ↑ Wrocław, Oratorium Marianum Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, with history, photo and current disposition (Polish)
10. ↑ Uniwersytet Oratorium Marianum Aula Musyczna Musicam Sacram, with photo and disposition (Polish)
11. ↑ Jan Tomasz Adamus and Richard Jacoby: The restoration of a Casparini organ in Breslau / Wroclaw . In: Ars Organi . tape 48 , 2000, pp. 156-158 .
12. ^ Jan Tomasz Adamus: positively restored by AH Casparini in Breslau / Poland . In: Württemberg sheets for church music . tape 67 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 34-36 .
13. ↑ Jan Tomasz Adamus: Unique organ discovery in Breslau. Discovered the organ of Bach's contemporary Adamo Orazio Casparini with baroque double tuning . In: Organ - journal for the organ . tape 3 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 46-48 .
14. ^ Organ Musicam Sacram, history of today's organ (Polish)
15. ↑ Jerzy Golos: Organy AH Caspariniego na Jasnej Górze . In: Studia Claromontana . tape 1 , 1981, p. 216 .
16. ↑ Legnickie Pole, Church of St. Hedwig Wirtualne Centrum Organowr, with history, photo and disposition (Polish)