Andreas Jäger (organ builder)

12-register choir organ in Stams

St. Mang monastery church in Füssen

Benediktbeuern monastery church

Andreas Jäger (born November 4, 1704 in Roßhaupten ; † April 24, 1773 in Füssen ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Jäger married in Füssen in 1733 and has since been there as an organ maker, Georg Ehinger from Aitrang may be a possible teacher . The quality of his work made Jäger a sought-after organ builder, whose area of ​​activity also extended across the Tyrolean region to Bozen . Little is known about his family. His older brother Martin Jäger was also an organ builder and settled in Carinthia ( Klagenfurt ), he made the Maria Saal organ .

Selected Works

• 1734: St. Sebastian, Füssen
• 1735: Franciscan Church , Füssen
• 1749: Parish Church Bad Hindelang (since 1829 in St. Leonhard in Liebenstein near Bad Hindelang)
• 1749: St. Nikolaus in Murnau am Staffelsee , replaced by a new building in 1805
• around 1745/50: Sankt Mang monastery , Füssen, choir organ
• 1753–54: Sankt Mang Monastery, Füssen, main organ
• 1757: Stams Cistercian Abbey , choir organ
• 1769: Benediktbeuern monastery church , reconstruction and extension of the organ by Christoph Egedacher (1686)
• St. Georg on the Auerberg near Bernbeuren , undated

literature

• Erich Tremmel: The organ builder Andreas Jäger and his main work, the great organ from St. Mang in Füssen . In: Alt Füssen, 1988, pp. 49-57.
• Matthias Thalmair: The masters of Füssen organ building . In: Alt Füssen, 1990, pp. 177-190; here: p. 178 f.
• Alfred Reichling: Andreas Jäger and the St. Mang choir organ . In: The choir organ of St. Mang in Füssen, Füssen 1996, pp. 7–9.
• Riedel, Friedrich Wilhelm; Hörner, Stephan (ed.): Abbot Gallus Zeiler OSB (1705–1755) and music maintenance in the St. Mang monastery in Füssen . Tutzing 2007. ISBN 978-3-7952-1248-3 .

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Photo after the restoration in 2016 by Orgelbau Linder