Adolph Compenius

Adolph Compenius (* around 1588; † 1650 in Hanover ) was a German organ builder and organist.

Life

He was the son of Esaias Compenius the Elder from his first marriage and before 1605 did an apprenticeship in his father's workshop. Around 1606 he was based in Magdeburg . As an organ builder, he first appeared in his father's new building at the Martinikirche in Kroppenstedt, which was completed in 1613 .

In 1620 he built a new organ for the court chapel in Bückeburg . He then settled in Rinteln and worked there as an organ builder until 1625. From 1626 to 1636 and from 1644 to 1650 he is recorded as organist at the Aegidienkirche in Hanover. There he lived in the neighborhood of the organist Melchior Schildt . In the intervening years he was active in Bremen. Here he was called as an appraiser on the organ of the Liebfrauenkirche , built by Johannes and Jost Sieburg in 1641 , and together with the organists Jacob Praetorius and Heinrich Scheidemann discovered various defects in the instrument.

Adolph Compenius shared the good reputation of his family, which produced several well-known organ builders. Because of his years in Rinteln, he was called "Schaumburger". Little is known of his son Peter Lorenz Compenius (1628–1653), who never grew old, and another son (1634–1641), who died as a child.

Works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1615-1617	Buckeburg	Bückeburg City Church		III / P	33	Completion of the new organ by Esaias Compenius the Elder (?); the disposition III / P / 48 handed down by Praetorius does not seem to have been carried out. Pipework replaced after several modifications; Housing fell victim to an arson attack in 1962; 1997 reconstruction by Rudolf Janke
1620	Buckeburg	Bückeburg Castle , court chapel				New building to which Michael Praetorius issued a good certificate
1621	Rinteln	St. Nicholas Church				Attribution; Partial prospectus and some registers received from Compenius
1646	Hanover	St. George's Church				Repair; not received
1646	Hanover	St. Jacob's Church				Repair; not received
1647	Hildesheim	St. Andrew				Repair of the Rückpositiv ; not received
1648-1650	Hanover	Aegidienkirche		II / P	25th	New building; completed by Johann Funken after his death; has been in a reduced form in the Martinskirche in Engelbostel since around 1880

literature

• Salomon Kümmerle: Compenius, family . In: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music . tape 1 . Gütersloh 1888, p. 286 f .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 43 .
• Gottfried Rehm : The Compenius organ at Kroppenstedt . Videel, Niebüll 2002, p. 73 .
• Winfried Schlepphorst: Compenius, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part, band 4 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Sp. 1438–1446.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schlepphorst: Compenius, family. 2000, col. 1441.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1. 2009, p. 44.
3. ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 93 .
4. ^ Schlepphorst: Compenius, family. 2000, col. 1440.
5. ^ Organ in Bückeburg , seen December 29, 2012.
6. ^ Organ in Rinteln , seen January 9, 2013.

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