Balthasar Pröbstl

Memorial plaque at the Pröbstl workshop at Rittergasse 14, Füssen

Balthasar Andreas Pröbstl (born January 2, 1830 in Füssen , † October 10, 1895 there ) was a Swabian organ builder .

Life

Balthasar Pröbstl was born in Füssen at the beginning of 1830 as the second son of the organ maker Joseph Pröbstl and his wife Michaelina, née Reinhart. During his school days he also received musical training from the organist Father Richard Huber, OFM . He completed an apprenticeship with his father Joseph Pröbstl, which he successfully completed on October 2, 1848. In 1852 Pröbstl presented a ten-register organ at the industrial exhibition in Augsburg's town hall , which he played himself. For the organ work he received the silver medal of the exhibition as an award. In 1865, Balthasar Pröbstl received a police permit from the city of Füssen to run an organ-making business on a commercial basis.

On November 9, 1865, Pröbstl married the 21-year-old Magdalena Fischer from Rettenbach ; the marriage remained childless. From June 1st to 18th, 1867, he made a trip to the World's Fair in Paris . For the always educated and autodidactically talented Pröbstl, this trip with all its impressions and technical developments was a great benefit.

Balthasar Pröbstl built over 150 organ works throughout his life, around a quarter of which have survived. He built organs for the parish churches of Sulzschneid , Ingenried a . v. a. From November 1871 to April 1872 he trained the Austrian organ builder Anton Behmann in his workshop .

Balthasar Pröbstl died in 1895 as "a wealthy man who left his hometown a considerable legacy and is therefore one of the benefactors of the city of Füssen". His workshop in Füssen was continued by Hermann Späth from the organ building family Späth in Ennetach .

Honors

In Füssen, the Pröbstlstrasse is named after him in his honor. On the occasion of the 200th birthday of his father Joseph Pröbstl in May 1998, the Füssen Historical Association put up a memorial plaque at Rittergasse 14 in Füssen, where the organ building workshop was formerly located .

plant

• Haus-Chronik (described by Balthasar Pröbstl), Ed. Alfred Reichling, Documenta Organologica Volume 4, Merseburger 1998.

Web links

• Balthasar Pröbstl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Literature by and about Balthasar Pröbstl in the catalog of the German National Library