Balthasar King

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Balthasar König (born June 18, 1684 in Ingolstadt , † December 16, 1756 in Menden ) was a German organ builder .

Life

His father Johann König (1639–1691) was an organ builder in Ingolstadt. After the death of the father, the older son Caspar (* 1675) took over the father's workshop. Balthasar König obviously attended the Ingolstadt Jesuit grammar school from the age of seven to 15 and learned his manual skills in his brother's workshop. He probably left Ingolstadt around 1703 to go on a journey as a journeyman. It is not known where he received his further training. However, its architectural style shows only a few characteristics of its Bavarian homeland. Since he has largely adapted to the Rhenish organ style, he seems to have received his formative training in this room as well. In 1711, at the age of 27, he founded his workshop in Münstereifel , where he received citizenship in 1716. In the same year he married Maria Barbara Berchrat (1698–1741) on July 24th. In 1735 he moved his workshop to Cologne and moved with his wife and eight children to Breite Strasse. The repairs to the Cologne cathedral organ between 1746 and 1751 earned him the title of cathedral organ maker. Balthasar König died while his organ was being built in Menden and was probably buried there.

After his death, his son Johann Nikolaus König (1729–1775) took over his father's business. The eldest son Christian Ludwig König (1717–1789) opened his own workshop in Cologne in 1756 and worked in Cologne, on the Lower Rhine and in the Netherlands . His son Johann Kaspar Joseph (1726–1763) also became an organ builder. The workshop in Münstereifel was continued in 1738 by Balthasar King's son-in-law Johann Odendahl from Dernau .

List of works

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1715 Niederehe ( Vulkaneifel ) Parish Church of St. Leodegar Niederehe koenigorgel 192x128.png I / P 13 Pedal covers only one octave; oldest baroque organ in Rhineland-Palatinate; the Niedereher organ is the only one that shows the authorship of the king with an inscription on the case.
1715 Heinsberg St. Gangolph II / P 25th Replaced in 1866
1717-1726 Ahrweiler St. Laurence Ahrweiler Laurentiuskirche organ.jpg II / P 24 including a large number of older pipes; Housing received from Georg Hondt
1727 Steinfeld Monastery ( North Eifel ) St. Potentinus Steinfeld Koenig-Orgel.jpg III / P 29 Attribution; with the inclusion of older pipes; Restored in 1981 by Weimbs to its original condition
1738 Beilstein (Moselle) Carmelite Church of St. Joseph
Beilstein Carmelite Church Gallery 603.JPG
 II / P 27 Attribution
1739 Great St. Mary Attribution
1740 Cologne Assumption Day III / P 30th not received
1742 Anrath St. John not received
around 1750 Marienthal (Ahr) Marienthal Monastery St. Nikolaus (Aremberg) jm37086.jpg I / p 10 Attribution (or Christian Ludwig König); after 1803 moved to Aremberg , parish church (photo); get there
1752-1754 Erkelenz- Lövenich catholic parish church I / P 11 Looted by French soldiers in 1794
1753-1756 Menden (Sauerland) St. Vincenz II / P 17th completed by Ludwig and Nikolaus König in 1757; not received

literature

  • Ulrich Bons: 300 years of organ history in Anrath . In: Home book of the district of Viersen . Viersen 1983, p. 177-188 .
  • Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : The organ builder families König in Ingolstadt, Münstereifel and Cologne . In: Roland Behrens, Christoph Grohmann (eds.): Dulce melos Organorum, Festschrift Alfred Reichling for his 70th birthday . Society of Organ Friends, Mettlach 2005, p. 111-168 .
  • FW Riedel: The Mosel-Eifel-Hunsrück region as an organ landscape . In: Ars Organi . tape 46 , ISSN  0004-2919 , p. 2-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hermann Fischer, Hans-Wolfgang Theobald : The Rhenish organ builders Balthasar and Christian Ludwig König (PDF; 565 kB), p. 3, viewed December 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Hermann Fischer, Hans-Wolfgang Theobald: The Rhenish organ builders Balthasar and Christian Ludwig König (PDF; 565 kB), p. 4, viewed December 14, 2012.
  3. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer , Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 40 ). tape 4 : Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-1342-3 , pp. 100 .
personal data
SURNAME King, Balthazar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1756
Place of death Menden