Carl Eduard Gesell

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Carl Eduard Gesell (born May 11, 1845 in Potsdam , Kingdom of Prussia ; † April 8, 1894 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Carl Eduard Gesell was trained in the Potsdam organ workshop of his father Carl Ludwig Gesell and with Franz Wilhelm Sonreck in Cologne . He then worked for Friedrich Meyer in Herford . After his father's death in 1867, he took over his company in Potsdam. He continued the tradition of the company and mainly built single-manual organs for churches in the Middle Mark . In addition, he won orders from abroad and exported organs to Buenos Aires and Constantinople , today's Istanbul . In addition, he carried out a large number of organ modifications and repairs. Carl Eduard Gesell remained childless. After his death in 1894, his student Alexander Schuke took over the company and expanded it into the renowned Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH .

Works (selection)

Central Mark and Argentina

Gesell organ from 1882 in the village church of Siethen

Gesell's most extensive new buildings included the organs for the St. Pauli monastery church in Brandenburg an der Havel  (1868) with two manuals , 27  stops and a pedal , for the German Protestant church in Buenos Aires (1871) with two manuals, twelve stops and a pedal and for the churches in Herzberg (1885) and Golm  (1886) each with two manuals, eleven stops and a pedal. The village churches equipped with new instruments by Carl Eduard Gesell include the village church Satzkorn , the village church Fresdorf , the village church Siethen and the village churches Grube and Alt Töplitz . In 1867 he expanded the organ of the company's founder Gottlieb Heise from 1847 in the Peace Church of Potsdam from 18 to 25 registers. In 1882 he carried out a further renovation on the Wagner organ from 1731 in the garrison church . In 1887 he rebuilt the organ of the neo-Gothic brick church in Paaren im Glien, which he himself had made in 1874 .

Organ of the Istanbul Kreuzkirche

For the 120th anniversary of the Gesell organ in the Evangelical Church of the Cross in Istanbul, the German language community in Turkey published a commemorative publication in 2004. The organ was built by Carl Eduard Gesell in 1883 and installed and inaugurated in 1884. It was equipped with two manuals, a pedal and a total of twelve stops and two couplers . The community's annual report from 1882/83 noted, among other things:

“The church council is hoping for a new stimulus for a more diligent visit to the house of God from the prospect of raising the worship celebrations with the organ, which is expected soon. At the beginning of this year, the local Counselor Baron Thielmann , who built himself on the beautiful play of the organist Lange on the harmonium that had previously accompanied the chant, suggested to the congregation to collect for an organ. This collection showed with some gifts from abroad 150  Lires turques equal to 1,717  marks . The total costs of an organ built for the conditions of the church at Gesell in Potsdam, including transport, installation and the necessary reconstruction of the organ choir, amount to 5,000 marks. Since the church council could not hope to raise this amount, Baron Thielmann took over the guarantee for the payment to the board and the organ builder, but obliged the board to help cover the costs as far as possible through a church concert after the organ was installed. The imperial ambassador, Herr von Radowitz , [...] has also requested aid from His Majesty the King of Prussia's disposition fund, based on the fact that the embassy chapel in Rome has recently been graciously granted aid from the same fund. "

- From the annual report of the Evangelical Congregation Constantinople 1882/83.

In 1964/65 the organ was redesigned by Werner Bosch and in the 2000s the community turned to the Schuke builder workshop to have it overhauled. The whereabouts of the organ were not known to Schuke up to this point; the instrument was entered in the catalog raisonné, but with the note “Receipt unknown”. During a visit to Istanbul in 2003, Matthias Schuke discovered that of all the surviving Gesell organs, only the Istanbul residents still have an original register, Prinzipal 8 ′, and the original prospect pipes .

literature

  • Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH: 100 years of Alexander Schuke organ building in Potsdam . thomasius verlag - Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1994.
  • Evangelical German-language congregation in Turkey: 120 years of the Gesell organ in the Evangelical Church of the Cross in Istanbul. A commemorative publication for the anniversary year 2004. Istanbul 2004. online .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brandenburg organ landscape. Organ builder.
  2. ↑ Organ building Hüfken. The Gesell family of organ builders in Potsdam. ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgelbau-huefken.de
  3. ↑ Catalog raisonné by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH ( Memento from April 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c Evangelical German language congregation in Turkey: 120 years of the Gesell organ ...
personal data
SURNAME Gesell, Carl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1894
Place of death Potsdam