Andreas Butz (organ builder)

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Andreas Butz (* in Roßwangen , Upper Austria ; † February 25, 1657 in Passau ) worked mainly in Passau as an organ builder .

Life

Andreas Butz was born, presumably between 1580 and 1590, in Roßwangen, which at that time belonged to Upper Austria and was administered from Innsbruck. In 1612 Butz (also: Putz, Puz and Buz ) is referred to as an organ maker who lives “the zeidt in saltzburg” (currently in Salzburg) and that he “went from Salzpurg geen Passaw” (from Salzburg to Passau ) wool. In June 1613 he was accepted as a “resident” in the city of Passau.

Initially he worked with the Passau organ maker Matthias Aigner, later with Niklaus Lamprecht and Johannes Freundt . On January 29, 1621, the Bishop of Brixen gave him his own coat of arms, which among other things shows three organ pipes on a blue background in the shield. From 1636 at the latest he was a member of the Council of the City of Passau and between 1645 and 1657 he was also the caretaker of the Hl.-Geist-Spital. In 1640 or 1641 Johann (?) Puz went on a pilgrimage to St. Wolfgang . He visited the pastor of Thalgau , to whom he then sent a cost estimate with "beӱkhombende [m] visor" for a positive , the purchase did not materialize. He delivered his organs, which were of excellent quality, mainly to Bavaria , Tyrol and Upper Austria .

His son Jakob († October 30, 1693 in Tulln ) and grandson Martin (born November 10, 1666 and † March 9, 1707 in Passau) were also active as organ builders.

List of works (selection)

The list includes some of his proven new builds.

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for a separate pedal.

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1613 black Franciscan Church I. 12
1614 Tegernsee Monastery church I. 7th
1617 Maria Hall Marienkirche bigger work
1618 Bolzano Franciscan Church II over 17 Double doors received
1618 Lienz Parish church Lienz parish church St. Andrä - view of the organ loft.jpg Housing with double doors preserved, some pipe material
1619 Villach Parish church 15th Housing received
1620 Brixen Poor Clare Church
1620/1621 Brixen Dom major work on both organs and on the positive choir
1621/1622 Brixen Parish church Remodeling and lowering the mood
1623/1624 Kremsmünster Collegiate church
1628 Passau Mary help
1629 San Candido Collegiate church Innichen Abbey, interior view, view of the organ.JPG Main case with double doors preserved, some pipes
1630 San Candido Parish church Main case with double doors preserved, some pipes
1633/1634 Schlägl Collegiate church Schlägl Collegiate Church - Organ 2.jpg II 21st 1988–1990 restored

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1635 Seitenstetten Collegiate church Choir positive
1636 Rohrbach I. 7th
1636 Aigen
1636/1637 Lambach Benedictine monastery I. 6th large positive with manual 16 'register (fragment preserved)
1637 Deggendorf Assumption Day Replaced in 1749 by a new building by Johann Konrad Brandenstein (15 / II / P)
1638 Reichersberg Augustinian Canons
1639 Lambach Gate tower Hornwerk
1641 Thalgau Parish Church of St. Martin Butz Thalgau.pdf I. 4th Design by Johann Butz (!), Which was not carried out.
1641 Freyung Parish church
1653/1654 Kremsmünster Collegiate church Positive for the dining room u. a.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Reichling: On the genealogy of the Butz family of organ builders from Passau . In: Acta Organologica . tape 4 , 1998, ISSN  0567-7874 , p. 195 .
  2. ^ Words of the pastor: = attached elevation drawing
  3. ^ Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis at the Salzburg University of Education 1982, p. 16f.
  4. ^ Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis at the Salzburg University of Education 1982, p. 19.

literature

  • Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria. Munich 1978.
  • Anton Dawidowicz : master organ builder and organs in East Tyrol. Inaugural dissertation. Vienna 1949.
  • Rupert Frieberger : Organ building in Upper Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries. With special consideration of existing instruments. Innsbruck 1984.
  • Alfred Reichling / Istvan Golarits: Organ landscape South Tyrol. Bolzano 1982.
  • Alfred Reichling: On the genealogy of the Passau organ building family Butz. In: Acta Organologica. 26, 1998, pp. 185-216.
  • Alfred Reichling: Butz. In: MGG , Person Teil , Vol. 3. Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Col. 1443–1445.
  • Walter Senn: Andreas Putz. In: Acta Organologica. 8, 1974, pp. 33-51.
  • Josef Saam: The old Passau organ builders. Their origin and their work from 1467 to 1744. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken. Passau 1977 (= Passau Yearbook for History, Art and Folklore ), pp. 108–137.
  • Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg pilgrimage churches. WiKu-Verlag, Duisburg / Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86553-446-0 (also dissertation: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Mozarteum University 2012).
  • Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present. Dissertation. University of Salzburg 1982.

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personal data
SURNAME Butz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Roßwangen , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1657
Place of death Passau