Andreas Weiß (organ builder, 1596)

Andreas Weiß (* 1596 ; † 1670 ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Andreas Weiß founded the organ building tradition in Ostheim before the Rhön . In 1619 he built the organ for the recently completed, new Protestant parish church of St. Michael in Ostheim. During this time, the man in his mid-twenties got to know the daughter of the pastor at the time, Katharina Götz, whom he married on May 21, 1625 in Ostheim. He later worked as an organ builder from Meiningen . The area of activity of Weiß in West Thuringia bordered to the west on the area of activity of the Hessian organ building family Georg Wagner .

List of works

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1626	Münnerstadt	St. Mary Magdalene	II / p	20th	New building; Canceled in 1850 and replaced
1629	Themar		II / P	23	New building
1642	Clausthal	Market Church	II / P	29	New building
1643	Osterode am Harz	St. Aegidia	II / P		Extension by a return positive
1644	Gotha		III / P	48	New building

literature

Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 459 .
Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 328 .

Web links

Website of the organ building workshop Hoffmann in Ostheim

Individual evidence

^ Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of south German organ builders. 1994, p. 459.
^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 11 .
^ Organ in Münnerstadt , accessed on July 29, 2016.
^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. 2009, p. 328.

personal data
SURNAME	White, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	1596
DATE OF DEATH	1670

[1] Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of south German organ builders. 1994, p. 459.

[2] Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 11 .

[3] Organ in Münnerstadt , accessed on July 29, 2016.

[4] Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. 2009, p. 328.