Carl Eduard Schubert

Carl Eduard Schubert (born October 31, 1830 in Halsbrücke , † January 11, 1900 in Reichenbach in Vogtland ) was a German organ builder .

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After completing school, Schubert completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . He then took up a job as a journeyman carpenter with the organ builder Urban Kreutzbach in Borna , where he was also trained as an organ builder. He then went into business for himself and set up his apartment and workshop in Adorf / Vogtland .

He built his first organ for the Protestant church in Roßbach, Bohemia . This was inaugurated in August 1860. It followed u. a. Orders for the churches in Greiz , Bösenbrunn , Adorf, Erlbach , Rödlitz , Herold , Wildenfels and Werda .

Schubert moved to Chemnitz with his family in 1868 . While working on the new building of a large three-manual organ for the castle church there , he fell into financial ruin, so that in 1876 his workshop and household effects were seized. As a result, Schubert hired himself out as a traveling organ builder without a permanent home. First he turned to Marienberg to finish the construction of an organ that had begun in 1872. Its completion and inauguration took place in 1879.

He built his organs strictly according to traditional craftsmanship and dispensed with factory-made organ parts and pipes. Contrary to the zeitgeist, Schubert refused to modernize old organs, which was reflected in his order situation. He himself stated that his conscience forbade him to turn to the factory organ. He insisted on the mechanical drawer . In the course of his work, 18 new organs were built. In addition, he saved numerous historical instruments from being demolished, decaying or remodeling.

Schubert temporarily lived in Dresden, most recently he lived in Reichenbach in Vogtland as a recipient of alms . In January 1900 he ended his life by suicide .

literature

• Klaus Walter: Life and work of the Saxon organ builder Carl Eduard Schubert (1830–1900). In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 16, 1982, pp. 65-216.

Web links

• Schubert's biography on the homepage of the parish of St. Marien in Marienberg