Biernacki (organ builder)
Biernacki was an important family of organ builders in Poland and Lithuania in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Organ builder
Hugo Ernst Biernacki
Hugo Ernst Biernacki was born in 1829. Probably in 1859/60 he founded an organ building workshop in Osiek near Płock in Kujawien in what was then Congress Poland . In 1884 he had an accident while building an organ.
Dominik Biernacki
Dominik Biernacki was born in 1870. At the age of 14 he took over the management of the company after the death of his father. He moved the workshop to Dobrzyń nad Wisłą (Dobrin on the Vistula) and was the first in Poland to build industrially manufactured organ parts. Soon after 1900 about 80 people were working in the workshop. She supplied organs in Poland and the Russian Empire , to which Lithuania also belonged at that time . Dominik Biernacki received the title of court architect for His Imperial Highness . In 1902 he bought a workshop in Płock and soon after relocated the company there, but after a while he returned to Dobrzyn. In 1914 he moved the company to Włocławek (Leslau).
After his death in 1928, his sons Wacław (II) and Dominik (II) took over the company.
Wacław Biernacki
Wacław (I) Biernacki was born in 1878. In 1908 he took over the branch in Vilnius , which was then part of Russia. Around 1919/21 he moved the headquarters to Warsaw because of the Polish-Soviet war . Around 1935 he handed over the company in Warsaw and Vilnius to his brother-in-law Roman Truszczyński. Around 500 organs had been built there by 1941.
Wacław (II) and Dominik (II) Biernacki
Wacław Biernacki was born in 1901 as the son of Dominik Biernacki, Dominik (II) in 1906. Both took over the father's company in Włocławek and later moved it to Kraków . Wacław died in 1954, Dominik in 1970.
Organs (selection)
Several hundred organs were built by the Biernacki company in what was then Poland and Russia, some of them in today's Lithuania and Belarus.
| year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Łódź | Sacred Heart Church | III / P | 67 | 1999 repairs, received | |
| 1928 | Ruda Śląska | St. Paul Church | III / P | 70 | receive | |
| ? | Rudy Wielkie | St. Mary's Cathedral | II / P | 35 | receive | |
| 1949 | Częstochowa (Czestochowa) | Cathedral Holy Family |
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IV / P | 101 | preserved, electrically connected to a small organ (II / P, 16) |
| 1963 | Kraków (Cracow), Kazimierz | Corpus Christi basilica | IV / P | 82 | Prospectus case from the 17th century; 2005 organ repairs received |
Web links
- Biernaccy - twórcy organów (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ About his work Wacław Biernacki vargonai.com (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Rudy, Bazylika Mniesza Matki Bożej Pokorny MusicamSacram (Polish)
- ↑ Cathedral Holy Family MusicamSacram (Polish)