Alois Hörbiger
Alois Hörbiger (born February 17, 1810 in Thierbach (Wildschönau municipality) , † May 7, 1876 in Semlin ) was an Austrian organ builder .
Life
Alois Hörbiger was born as the son of Alois Hörbiger, farmer on the Hörbiger farm in Wildschönau , and his wife Maria, née. Sandbichler was born. He is the grandfather of Hanns Hörbiger , the founder of the Hörbiger actor dynasty . After a short apprenticeship with the Tyrolean organ builder Joseph Mitterer, Hörbiger learned his trade autodidactically.
From 1830 Hörbiger first worked in Lienz , in 1834 he married Victoria Bassina (later also called Wassina) in St. Daniel in the Gailtal , ten years later he moved to the Lower Styrian town of Cilli (now Celje in Slovenia ). His next stop was Atzgersdorf near Vienna in 1855 and he spent the last ten years of his life in the Banat .
During his time in Vienna, Hörbiger developed the harmonicon , a combination of harmonium and organ, for the World Exhibition in Paris . On the London exhibition its been Vox humana shown he received from Emperor Franz Joseph I , the Big golden medal for art and science .
In 1856 Alois Hörbiger added three stops to the organ in the parish church of Grinzing, which was built by Christoph Erler in 1827 . This organ was restored in 1997 by Peter Maria Kraus . In 1859 Alois Hörbiger built a small organ for Poysbrunn in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel. In 2009 the organ was renovated and inaugurated, making it one of the few remaining works by the Tyrolean organ builder. The large organ of the Altlerchenfeld parish church was also built by Hörbiger in 1860 in a housing design by Eduard van der Nüll , probably his greatest work. However, this instrument was rebuilt in 1965 by Philipp Eppel in the neo-baroque style and its sound changed.
Works (excerpt)
Alois Hörbiger created more than 60 organs, including
- 1829 - Thierbach
- 1836 - Watschig tolerance prayer house
- 1837 - Oberlienz
- 1842 - Cilli
- 1843 - Welsche Church Graz
- 1844 - Windischgräz
- 1847 - Oberburg
- 1848 - Sankt Michael in Upper Styria
- 1849 - Meidling
- 1852 - Mureck , Styria
- 1853 - St Johann Nepomuk in Vienna
- 1858–1860 - Altlerchenfeld parish church in Vienna
- 1859 - Parish Church of Poysbrunn
- 1867 - San Pasquale Baylon in Trieste
- 1870/1871 - Werschetz
See also
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hörbiger, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 124 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hörbiger Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 364.
- Christina Höfferer and Andreas Kloner: Hörbiger. A family constellation. ORF radio feature 2008, 54 min.
- Alois Hörbiger, 1810 - 1876. The organ builder from Tyrol. Bergbauernmuseum z'Bach (Ed.), Wildschönau 2010.
- Georg Markus : The Hörbigers. Family biography. Amalthea Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-85002-565-9 .
Web links
- Brief portrait of Alois Hörbiger
- Krista Hauser: The Organ Builder of Tyrol , in: Quart. Magazine for Culture Tyrol. No. 17/11. Retrieved December 3, 2018
- Franz Metz: A Tyrolean from Cilli in the Banat , accessed on December 3, 2018
- Christina Höfferer and Andreas Kloner: It all starts on the "Hörbig" How the organ builder Alois Hörbiger came from the Tyrolean Wildschönau to the Weinviertel: for the 200th birthday of the ancestor of an Austrian actor dynasty . In: "Die Presse", Spectrum. February 6, 2010. SV and VI.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptismal register of the Catholic parish Thierbach, 1807-1856, page 6
- ↑ St. Daniel im Gailtal's marriage book, Volume 3, page 31
- ↑ Alois Hörbiger (1810–1876) - A successful organ builder from Thierbach. (PDF; 234 kB) p. 2 , accessed on July 30, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hörbiger, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian organ builder and cathedral organ builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thierbach (Wildschönau municipality) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1876 |
| Place of death | Semlin , today the city of Belgrade |