Anton Gartner

Anton Gartner (born August 5, 1707 in Tachau , West Bohemia , † July 11, 1771 there ) was an important Bohemian organ builder of the Baroque era .

Life

(Johann) Anton Gartner was born as the son of Egidius Gartner (1678–1762), who founded an important organ building dynasty in Bohemia. Egidius also delivered to the Stiftland (Mähring 1735).

Between 1754 and 1756 Anton built the large organ above the west portal in the monastery church of Stift Teplá . The instrument has three manuals and has largely been preserved. The "short octave" (CDEFG A – H) was common in Bohemia and southern Germany at that time. The range of the lowest octave of this Gartner organ was CD – B, only the C sharp was missing.

During the Seven Years' War , Prussian troops shelled the cathedral of Prague Castle , and the organ there burned down in 1757. Gartner was commissioned to build the new organ of St. Vitus Cathedral in 1762 , which was consecrated two years after the end of the war in 1765. This had 40 / III / P with mechanical action and with its 2831 pipes was the largest organ in Bohemia. Only the prospectus has been preserved. A new building on the west gallery with 106 / IV / P is in work at Gerhard Grenzing (Spain).

His sons Franz Adam (1739–1785) and Vinzenz Gartner (1748–1820) continued the craft of organ building, as did the grandson (of Franz Adam) Joseph Gartner I (1769–1847) the elder and his son Josef Gartner III. the younger (1796–1863).

Works (selection)

Anton Gartner built organs mainly in West and Central Bohemia, but also in Prague.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1749	Haid (Bor u Tachova)	St. Nikolai		I / P	10
1751?	Tachau (Tachov)	City Church		II / P	20th	1929 pneumatic conversion or new construction in the old prospectus by Rieger to 31 / III / P
1751	Tachau (Tachov)	Franciscan Church of Maria Magdalena		II / P	20th	2003–2008 restoration
1754	Tepl (Teplá)	Collegiate church		III / P	34	Large organ, rearranged by Philipp Müller in 1892, preserved 196? Renovation by Pavel Žur
1757	Taus (Domažlice)	Assumption Day		II / P	21st
1758	Klentsch (Klenčí pod Čerchovem)	St. Martin		II / P	14th	receive
1762-1765	Prague	Vitus Cathedral		III / P	40	At that time the largest organ in Bohemia, the factory expanded in 1909, the prospectus received on the upper gallery, including a new organ from 1929
1765	Prague New Town (Nové Mesto)	Theklakapelle		I / p	6th	Attribution by Vladimir Šlajch, received
1766	Prague New Town	Johannes Nepomuk Church		II / P	?	Prospectus received
1766	Tepl (Teplá)	Collegiate church		I / P	12	Choir organ
1770	Neugedein ( Kdyně )	St. Nikolai		II / P	15th	Prospectus received
1771	Pilsen (Plzeň)	Franciscan Church				not received
?	Pistau (Pístov) near Chodová Planá	St. Bartholomew Monastery				not received

literature

• Lenka Havlová ( editor ): Sborník okresního muzea v Tachovê. Okresní muzeum v Tachovê, 1999.
• Jiří Kocourek: Organ country Bohemia . In: Ars Organi . 57th vol., Issue 1, March 2009, pp. 5-18.
• Rudolf Quoika : The old Austrian organ of the late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1953, p. 51.

Web links

• Anton Gartner Varhany a varhanáři v České republice, with changing organ lists (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jiří Kocourek: Organ country Bohemia . In: Ars Organi . Vol. 57, issue 1, March 2009, p. 11.
2. ^ Josef Srb : Dějiny hudby v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha 1891. ( History of music in Bohemia and Moravia , Czech, text on Wikisource).
3. ↑ Frantisek Xaver Brixi (1732–1771), a largely unknown master in this country. In: Church music in Benediktbeuern [accessed on June 25, 2016].
4. ^ The organ for Prague . Grenzing.com. October 19, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
5. ↑ Organ in Tachov Varhany a varhanáři (Czech)
6. ↑ Gartner organ in Tachov report on restoration (German, Czech)
7. ^ Organ in Teplá Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
8. ↑ Organ in Klenčí pod Čerchovem Varhany a varhanáři v České republice (Czech)
9. ↑ Organ in St. Vitus Cathedral organ index (German)