Bruno Riedl

Bruno Riedl (born April 2, 1937 in Linz ; † June 2, 2019 ) was an Upper Austrian organ builder who built numerous organs in the Austrian federal states of Upper Austria , Lower Austria and Vienna .

Life - Education - Effect

Bruno Riedl was born as the son of the government councilor Franz Riedl and his wife Margarethe. He graduated from elementary and secondary school (five classes in middle school). In October 1953 he began his apprenticeship as an organ builder with the master organ builders, Gebrüder Matthäus (1885–1954) and Anton Mauracher (1896–1962) in Linz. After Anton Mauracher's death, he switched to organ builder Wilhelm Zika junior. (1905–1989), who headed the organ building company Wilhelm Zika sen., Which emerged from the Breinbauer company in St. Florian . after the death of his father Wilhelm (1875–1955) directed; this operated from 1956 under the name Oberösterreichische Orgelbauanstalt GmbH (Orgelbauanstalt St. Florian, Upper Austria) . It was there that Riedl passed the final organ building exam in 1957.

1957 Riedl expanded his knowledge in the organ building workshop Graf, Sursee, Switzerland. In 1958 Riedl worked as a voicer for the Eisenbarth organ builder in Passau , Germany , and in the same year passed his master organ builder examination; at the age of 21, Riedl was the youngest master organ builder in Austria at the time.

In 1962, Riedl acquired further knowledge in French organ building from master organ builder Georges Lhôte in Geneva , where he worked for a year as a foreman.

After completing his military service, which had been postponed several times, Riedl founded an organ building company in 1965, in which by 1980 around eight to ten employees had built 60 mechanical slider chest organs.

Riedl worked as a guild master for organ building in the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce and acted as deputy federal guild master in the committee of musical instrument manufacturers in Austria. In 1978 he founded the Association of Austrian Master Organ Builders.

Organs from the Riedl company

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1971	Timelkam	Catholic parish church Timelkam		II / P	24
		St. Martin near Linz		II / P	19th
1972	Sipbachzell	Sipbachzell parish church		II / P	12
	catfish	St. Josef Pernau		II / P	22nd
	Linz	St. Peter		II / P	13
	Waidhofen an der Ybbs	City parish church		II / P	30th
1976	Ternberg	Catholic parish church Ternberg		II / P	15th
1977	In Pongau	Catholic parish church in Eben im Pongau
1978	Bad Ischl	Evangelical parish church Bad Ischl		II / P	22nd
1978	Laa an der Thaya	Catholic parish church Laa an der Thaya		II / P	25th	Built into the old case from 1728.
1974	Steyr	Evangelical Lutheran town church in Steyr		II / P	17th	First organ in 1898 by the Lachmayr organ builder with 8 registers. New building by Bruno Riedl in 1974 with 17 registers. Restoration by Kaufmann Orgelbau in 2015 with now 18 registers and 1116 pipes
1979	Grafenschlag	Parish church hl. Martin		II / P	15th	Disposition
1980	Ulrichsberg	Parish Church of St. Ulrich		II / P	20th
1980	Pichl near Wels			II / P	22nd
	Vienna	Kagran parish church		II / P
1985	Vienna	Protestant St. Mark's Church		II / P	15th	Disposition The Riedl organ in the Markuskirche was the first purely French organ in Vienna in 1985, but with a relatively small number of registers. An expansion by five registers, which was still being considered during the planning phase, was not implemented despite largely resolved financing issues. 2007 renovation and partial reconstruction (lowering of the pedal keyboard, replacement of the short, straight pedal keyboard with a double- curved standard pedal keyboard) by Wolfgang Karner.
1991	Eibiswald	Mary in the thorn		II / P	26th
1997	Gmuend	Sacred Heart Church		I / p	8th
1997	Vienna	Parish church Altsimmering		II / P	17th

Web links

Commons : Bruno Riedl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Kreuzhuber: In memory of Bruno Johann Riedl. Austrian Organ Forum, December 18, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ This and the following information is based on an undated, typewritten curriculum vitae, signed by Bruno Riedl, which was enclosed with an organ offer from 1980
3. ↑ The new mechanical slide organ in the parish church of Sipbachzell, O.Ö. Listing. In: Singing Church. 20th year, No. 1.
4. ^ Dehio: Lower Austria, north of the Danube ; Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2010, p. 623, ISBN 978-3-85028-395-3
5. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian organ database Karl Schütz. Retrieved July 19, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Music in the Markuskirche, website of the Protestant parish AB Wien-Ottakring ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ cf. in addition the commemorative publication for the consecration of the organ in the Markuskirche, 1st Sunday in Advent, December 1st, 1985 , where in the article by Bruno Riedl the new organ in the Markuskirche Vienna-Ottakring says: “Two very courageous young organists suggested that I should join Consider building a French organ. This suggestion was enthusiastically received by me ... "
8. ↑ cf. on this Riedl's statement in a letter from March 1984 that his workshop could "finally do something that we previously only dreamed of."
9. ↑ Martin Wadsack: The organs of the 11th Viennese district. Vienna 2014, p. 16.