Brond de Grave winter

Brond de Grave Winter (born September 8, 1824 in Leer , † February 25, 1892 in Emden ) was an East Frisian organ builder . Little has been preserved of his new organs.

Life

Brond de Grave Winter was the son of the teacher and organist Johann Jurjen Wilhelm Winter and Gesine Johanna de Grave. In 1845 he learned to build organs in Saxony in 3 ½ years before returning to East Friesland in 1849, where he became a citizen of Emden on August 2nd. He received his first assignment in Leer, where his father was the organist at the Great Church . Together with his nephew Johann Visser, de Grave Winter completed the major extension conversion in 1850, which was not completed by Wilhelm Caspar Joseph Höffgen . De Grave Winter was at times without competition and was an important organ builder in East Friesland. He died, widowed, in Emden in 1892.

plant

Brond de Grave Winter builds organ works in the romantic style, which largely dispense with mixtures , high aliquot registers and reeds . Almost nothing of his new organs has survived:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1849-1850	Empty	Big church		II / P	27	Completion of the major organ renovation after the death of Wilhelm Caspar Joseph Höffgen → Organ (today III / P / 37)
1854	Willum	Willum Church		I / P	11	Replaced in 1969 by a new building from Reil ( Heerde , NL)
1855	Canum	Canum Church		I / p	8th	Replaced in 1964 by a new building by Alfred Führer ; new organ based on the model of the Nesser organ by Gerhard von Holy (1709–1710) replaced by Bartelt Immer (2009–2010)
1857	All around	Jarßumer Church		I / p	5	In 1948 it was partly used in the new building by Paul Ott (metal pipes, housing, fan and parts of the wind chest ), completely replaced in 1971 by a new building by Alexander Schuke
1857-1858	Suurhusen	Suurhuser Church		II / P	13	Replaced 1964–65 by a new building designed by Karl Schuke
1859	Middle size	Mittegroßefehner Church		II / P	13	receive; In 2004 it was shut down for an indefinite period due to its unsustainably poor condition and the hopelessness of financing the necessary repairs
1859-1860	Mitling Mark	Mitling marker church		I / p	7th	1917 handover of the prospect pipes for armament purposes and 1919 reinstallation, so far no restoration has taken place
1860	Empty	Mennonite Church		I / P	9	reworking the existing case of the previous organ
1864-1866	Jemgum	reformed Church		II / P	15th	Burned in 1930, replaced in 2007 by an older organ by JW Walker (1844) by FR Feenstra ( Grootegast , NL)
1867-1868	Loppersum	Loppersumer Church		I / P	12	After cancellation of the contract, completion by Gebr. Rohlfs

Roman number = number of manuals

large "P" = independent pedal

small "p" = attached pedal

Arabic number = number of sounding registers

In addition to the completion of the major reconstruction of the organ in the Great Church in Leer , numerous repairs and maintenance work on East Frisian organs are documented.

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia

literature

• Jürgen Ahrend , Winfried Dahlke : Documentation of the organ of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Leer . Print-on-demand (presumably Stade 2008 without location and year information).
• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
• Harald Vogel , Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .