Andreas Tamitius

Andreas Tamitius , also Tomnitz or Tamnitz (born August 13, 1633 in Döhlen near Dresden , † 1700 in Dresden ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Andreas Tamitius was the son of pastor Andreas Tamitius.

He founded a family of organ builders that was important at the time, and they implemented the Dutch and Italian influences that their father brought with him from his training abroad in their organs. The family worked for three generations in Bohemia , Lusatia and Silesia . His sons Johann Gottlieb Tamitius (born February 9, 1691 in Dresden, † March 24 or 26, 1769 in Zittau ) and Johann Gottfried Tamitius († before November 27, 1741), who worked in 1738 at the Cottbus Upper Church of St. Nikolai , were also organ builder. The daughter Johanna Catharina († before 1755) married the organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel (* May 12, 1697, † January 12, 1777 in Hubertusburg ) in 1718 . He probably learned his trade from his brother-in-law Johann Gottlieb.

In addition to the new construction and restoration of organs, he also examined them, for example in Luckau : “Court organ builders Andreas Tamitius from Dresden and Christoph Junge from Doberlug - independently of one another examined the Donat organ on behalf of the city council. They have problems with the wind supply, piercing the windchest, especially in the Rückpositiv, as they are not carefully made, and in some cases little good material is used. (…) “In 1677, the organ of Christoph Donat from Leipzig in Luckau , built between 1672 and 1673, was still not fully operational.

Works

• In 1667 and 1668 the organs were rebuilt by Blasius Lehmann from Bautzen , built into the Kreuzkirche in Dresden from 1512 to 1514 by Tamitius, but the instruments were severely damaged by fire in 1669. After the restoration, Johann Christian Heydenreich made an extension in 1729. In the Seven Years' War they were stolen in 1760, the church completely destroyed.
• 1675 to 1676, new organ in the town church in Calau .
• Reconstruction of the organ from Mühlberg (probably from 1547), it was a gift from Elector August to the town church of St. Marien in Pirna . The organ was installed on a small gallery above the sacristy .
• In 1679, the organ in Freiberg's town church St. Petri , which had already been installed in 1569, underwent major repairs . The instrument was destroyed in a city fire in 1728. 1735 was the consecration of the organ newly built by Gottfried Silbermann.
• The “old” organ of the Leubnitz church was “continued and made differently” by Andreas Tamitius in 1679 and 1680.
• In 1681 the imperial organ of Albrecht Wenzel Rudner from Prague was repaired . It came from 1598 and was located in the St. Elisabeth Church in Zwickau in Bohemia .
• As the electoral Saxon court organ maker in Dresden, he was the builder of the organ in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Görlitz in 1683 and 1684. This organ with 47 registers , 3 manuals and pedal was destroyed in the fire in 1691.
• Another work by him was the organ of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Göda , which was restored in 1833 by Christian Gottfried Herbrig .
• In the years 1688 to 1690, the town church in Bischofswerda was probably not restored , but rather a new organ was built, as the costs were considerable and speak for the latter. It had 2 manuals and 17 stops.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Christian Hasche : Complicated description of Dresden: with all its external and internal peculiarities , Schwickertsche Verlage Leipzig 1781, p. 609.
2. ↑ Ernst Flade: Gottfried Silbermann: a contribution to the history of German organ and piano construction in the age of Bach. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1953, p. 16.
3. ↑ Andreas Tamitius: Christian EinweyhungsPredigt / Des newen GottesAckers zu Dölau / held in the freyen field / in the 1629th year / on the 24th Sunday after Trinity ... Bergen, Dreßden 1630 University and State Library (ULB) Saxony-Anhalt
4. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1980, EphA Calau - Vol. I Pr. A 1. 4.
5. ^ Ulrich Eichler: Hähnel, Johann Ernst . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
6. ^ Wolf Bergelt: The Mark Brandenburg. A rediscovered organ landscape. Pape, Berlin 1989, pp. 102-105.
7. ↑ Ars Organi, March 2007 edition, No. 13 ( Memento of November 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Organ Kreuzkirche Dresden
9. ↑ Christhard Kirchner: The organ landscape of the state of Brandenburg , section 2. The development of the organ culture of Brandenburg in the 16th and 17th centuries. Association of Protestant Church Musicians in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (VKBO)
10. ↑ Stadtkirche St. Marien ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
11. ↑ The Silbermann organ homepage of the sister communities Petri-Nikolai and St. Johannis zu Freiberg
12. ↑ Cvikov, Kostel sv. Alžběty
13. ^ Hermann Mendel: Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon: an encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences. Volume 10. Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1886, p. 90.
14. ↑ Herbrig Orgeln ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Wolfram Hackel: The organs in the town church Bischofswerda - a chronicle. (PDF; 80 kB)