August Neuburger (organ builder)

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August Neuburger, around 1865

August Neuburger (born May 25, 1820 in Schwerin , Mecklenburg ; † September 16, 1885 in Clamart near Paris ) was a German organ builder in Mecklenburg and France. For many years he was a works manager at Aristide Cavaillé-Coll .

Live and act

Organ in Weitendorf

August Neuburger grew up as a half-orphan and trained as a craftsman. As an organ building assistant he worked for Friedrich Friese II from Schwerin with some repairs until March 1841. In that year he and Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer built an organ in Weitendorf , as an inscription in Neuburger 1841 in the wind chest says. In 1842 he used it to repair the organ of the Marienkirche in Rostock , also attested by an inscription.

In the autumn of 1844, Neuburger worked for Jonathan Bätz and Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Witte in Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1845 he first came to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in Paris. In 1848 he worked for another organ builder in Namur before finally moving to Cavaillé-Coll in 1850. He became its foreman and was thus instrumental in the very successful work of this organ building company. Neuburger also became a teacher of important organ builders such as Wilhelm Sauer .

Some handwritten notes with technical details of the activities of the organ building workshop A. Cavaillé-Coll Fils & Cie have been preserved from August Neuburger.

literature

  • Max Reinhard Jaehn: Troubled times in Schwerin and Paris. August Neuburger (1820-1885). In: Ars Organi 60. 2012. pp. 18–22.
  • Friedrich Drese : August Neuburger . In: Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. P. 391f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the organ in Weitendorf Organ Information
  2. ^ Tables of the progression Gazette Drouot, from 1865
personal data
SURNAME Neuburger, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Mecklenburg and France
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1885
Place of death Clamart near Paris