Albert Moser (organ builder)

Console of the Moser organ in the Gustav Adolf Church in Munich

Albert Moser (born April 15, 1878 in Lucerne , † 1960 in Munich ) was an organ builder .

life and work

From 1904 Albert Moser worked for Franz Borgias Maerz in Munich. After Maerz's death in 1910 he went into business for himself together with Leopold Nenninger ( Nenninger & Moser ). After the First World War , he separated from Nenninger and ran the business independently.

The organ of St. Margaret in Munich , created in 1915, was of groundbreaking importance in the context of the Alsatian organ reform . The organs mostly had cone chests with electric or pneumatic action. A special characteristic was their neo-baroque sound structure with high aliquots and rich mixtures. Altomünster built Moser in 1919 as the first one register None ⁸ / ₉ '.

Although his workshop fell victim to an air raid during World War II , he continued to build other organs. In 1955 he gave up his business for reasons of age.

List of works (collaboration under the company name Nenninger & Moser 1910–1917)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1913	Otterfing	St. George		II / P	12 (13)	1984 Electrification and rescheduling by Nenninger
1913	Antholing	St. George		II / P	12
1914	Altfraunhofen	St. Nicholas		II / P	21st	Brochure by Joseph Schweinacher from 1799
1914	Gunzlhofen	St. Margareth		II / P	18th
1915	Munich	St. Margaret		III / P	57	New building by Anton Schwenk around 1950

List of works (Albert Moser from 1917)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1917	Freising	Johanniskirche		II / P	13
1919	Altomünster	Monastery church		II / P	33	Replaced in 1986 by a new building with II / 25 by Hubert Sandtner . The picture shows the playing system from 1919 with the register None in the Valley Organ Center .
1920	Freising	Former teacher training institute		II / P	10
1920	Furth (Lower Bavaria)	St. Sebastian		II / P	10	1966 Reorganization by Weise
1920	Sachsenkam	Reutberg Monastery		II / P	13
1921	Bergkirchen	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	16	1972 with a new building by Anton Staller
1923	Blockach	St. Wolfgang		II / P	10
1924	Munich	Suffering of christ		III / P	20th	Partial expansion (III / 66 were planned); 1964 New building behind the old Moser Prospect by Josef Zeilhuber with III / 39.
1925	Munich	Trinity Church		II / P	??	1985 replaced by a new building by Claudius Winterhalter .
1926	Munich	Matthew Church		III / P	74	did not receive information
1932-1934	Einsiedeln	Einsiedeln Monastery		III / P	97
1935	Elberfeld	Old Reformed Church		III / P	50	Using the prospectus and some pipes from the organ by Johann Friedrich Schulze from 1847. Destroyed in World War II.
1936	Munich	Gustav Adolf Church		II / P	13
1937	Scheinfeld	Assumption Day		II / P	29
1938	Munich	Church of the Redeemer		III / P	48	→ organ
1938	Gößweinstein	Pilgrimage church		II / P	42	1987 to the Valley Organ Center .
1938	Grünwald	Thomas Church		II / P	10	Replaced in 1992 by today's Heintz organ.
1939	Munich - Trudering	Friedenskirche		II / P	??	Replaced in 1976 by today's Steinmeyer organ, with numerous pipes being reused.
1952	Munich - Lehel	Parish Church of St. Anna		III / P	??	Replaced in 1980 by today's Klais organ.
1955	Munich	St. Andrew		III / P	40	1972 Conversion by Gerhard Schmid .
1955	Munich	Mariahilfkirche		III / P	64	Due to the death of Albert Moser, the organ was not completed until 1960 by the Späth company. Replaced in 1975 by a new building by Gerhard Schmid , the pipework was almost completely reused.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann J. Busch , Matthias Geuting (Ed.): Lexicon of the organ . Laaber, Laaber 2007, ISBN 978-3-89007-508-2 , pp. 41 .
2. ^ Friedrich Högner : The new organ of the Matthäuskirche in Munich. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol .: 47, Leipzig, 1926, pp. 1043-1045.
3. ^ P. Stefan Koller: The new organ of the collegiate church in Einsiedeln (Switzerland). In: Musica Sacra , Vol .: 65, 1935, pp. 83-84.
4. ^ The new organ in the Old Reformed Church in Elberfeld. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol .: 56, Leipzig, 1935, pp. 239–241.
5. ↑ New organ in the church in Gößweinstein. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Vol .: 59, Leipzig, 1938, pp. 105-106.
6. ↑ Information on the organ from Gößweinstein in the Valley Organ Museum

literature

• Georg Brenninger : Organs in Old Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders 1891–1991 . Organ building specialist publisher Rensch, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .