Antonius Wilde

Antonius Wilde , also Anthonius Wilde , (* before 1575 , † around 1618 ) was a German organ builder in Otterndorf .

Little is known about the life of Antonius Wilde. 1587–1590 he was Hans Scherer the Elder's master journeyman . From 1593 he appeared as a self-employed master organ builder. After the new organ was built in Otterndorf, he settled there. He married in Otterndorf and acquired citizenship of the city in 1600 . The assistants Hans Bockelmann and an Antonius (Moitzen?) Have been proven in the construction of the new organ in Wöhrden . Wilde's effectiveness is concentrated on the organ landscape between the Elbe and Weser . A total of four new organs are attested. The structure of his renaissance organs follows the principle of the work as it was further developed by the Scherer family of organs , and they finally break with the Gothic tradition of block work .

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column of the table, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the sixth column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1587-1590	Stade	St. Nicolai		III / P	33	Collaboration on the new building by Hans Scherer the elder ; later changed significantly; Transferred to Himmelpforten in 1835 ; preserved some registers; Rückpositiv case preserved in Kirchlinteln
1593-1595	Woehrden	St. Nicolai		III / P	32	New building; later remodeled; 13 registers preserved; today III / P / 33
1596	Otterndorf	Severikirche		II / P		New building; later several modifications; preserved some registers; today III / P / 46
1597-1598	Ludingworth	St. Jacobi Church		II / P	20th	New building; 1682–83 Extension conversion by Arp Schnitger (III / P / 35), who took over 19 Wildes registers in whole or in part → organ of St. Jacobi Church (Lüdingworth)
1598	Easter break	St. Petri		II / P	18 (approx.)	New building; only a few pipes left
1606	Dorum	St. Urbanus Church				Repair; not received
1606-1608	Stade	St. Cosmae et Damiani		II / P	28	Extension conversion in two construction phases; Burned in 1659 → organ of St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade)
1611-1612	Hamburg	Main church Sankt Jacobi		III / P	53	Small repairs → organ of the main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg)

literature

• Walther Bornemann (Ed.): The organ by Antonius Wilde and Arp Schnitger in St. Jakobi d. Ä. to Lüdingworth . Church council St. Jakobi d. Ä., Cuxhaven-Lüdingworth 1996.
• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of organs between the Elbe and Weser

Web links

• Organ in Lüdingworth (seen November 2nd 2009).
• Organ in Wöhrden (seen November 2nd, 2009).
• Organ in Otterndorf (seen November 2nd, 2009).