Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow

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Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow, etching by Franz Wolf (1858)

Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow (* 1801 in Danzig ; † May 16, 1864 in Komorn ) was a German-Austrian organ builder .

Life

The son of the innkeeper Martin Buckow and his wife Katharina trained with the distiller and organ builder Heinrich Wegener in Gdansk and worked as a journeyman in the workshop of Georg Friedrich and (from 1824) August Wilhelm Grüneberg in Stettin , where he worked on the organ in 1824 the Nikolaikirche in Pasewalk collaborated.

After further training in Germany, France and England, he worked in Hirschberg with Joseph Schinke († October 31, 1828) and took over his workshop in 1828 together with Schinke's son Adolph. The redesign of the Casparini organ in St. Peter and Paul in Görlitz , which was carried out in 1828 under the direction of Schinkes, was already considered by Buckow to be his first independent work, which he described as his Opus 1. Buckow settled in Hirschberg and ran the workshop alone from November 29, 1829.

His first organ with a 16-foot principal choir was built in 1830 in the town church (also main church) of Triebel ; it was destroyed in 1945 together with the church. In the following years he built several organs in the local area. As a royal Prussian and k. u. k. He was a court organ builder in Prague in 1852 and in Vienna from 1856 to 1858 and 1861/62 , then also in Hungary and Belarus. His 50th organ, built between 1856 and 1858 in the Maria Treu Piarist Church in Vienna , today has 36 (originally 34) sounding voices on three manuals and one pedal. This organ, highly valued by Anton Bruckner , Franz Liszt , Ignaz Assmayer and Simon Sechter, was considered by Buckow to be the high point of his work.

Buckow was a typical example of the building of romantic organs . His instruments were able to mix several voices to a large extent in order to imitate an orchestra . This is also reflected in the disposition of many Buckow organs with numerous registers named after stringed or other orchestral instruments. The last organ he completed is the instrument built in 1862 for the imperial Hofburgkapelle , which Anton Bruckner used from 1869 to 1892 as k. u. k. Played court organist. It is one of the most important organs in Vienna in the 19th century and is now in the Vienna Technical Museum after the prospect pipes and breastwork that no longer existed were reconstructed based on a historical photo and an original drawing by Buckow .

From 1860 Buckow worked on the organ in Komorn. There he died in 1864 while the organ was being installed and was buried in an anonymous grave, as he had to struggle with financial difficulties in the last years of his life.

plant

Organ of the Vienna Hofburg Chapel (1862)
Organ of St. Andrew's Church in Komorn (1864)
Organ in the Piarist Church of Maria Treu (1858)

according to Buckow's own information

  • 1828: Görlitz, St. Peter and Paul (op. 1)
  • 1829: Hirschberg, Gnadenkirche zum Heiligen Kreuz (op.2), Schmottseiffen (op.3)
  • 1830: Liebenthal, Klosterkirche (op.4), Triebel, Stadtkirche (op.5)
  • 1831: Liebenthal, Annakirche (op. 6), Krumöls (op. 7)
  • 1832: Lauterbach (op.8), Sorau (op.9)
  • 1833: Forst (op.10), Droskau (op.11), Kohlo (op.12)
  • 1834: Pitschkau (op.13), Logau (op.14), Rampitz (op.15)
  • 1835: Lauban, orphanage (op.16), Finsterwalde, Trinitatiskirche (op.17), Prittag (op.18)
  • 1836: Herrmansdorf (op.19), Krumöls, main organ (op.20)
  • 1837: Görlitz, Frauenkirche (op.21), Liegnitz, St. Peter and Paul (op.22)
  • 1838: Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf, Peterskirche (op.23), Sohra (op.24), Kunerwitz (op.25)
  • 1840: Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf, Church of the Prussian Kings (op. 26)
  • 1841: Hennersdorf (op.27), Nieder Seifersdorf , fortified church St. Gallus and St. Ursula (op.28), Arnsdorf (op.29)
  • 1842: Alt-Kemnitz (op. 30)
  • 1844: Glogau, cathedral (op.31) and prayer house (op.32)
  • 1845: Sohland (op.33), Hainau, Evangelical Church (op.34)
  • 1846: Löwenberg (op.35), Posen, German Catholic Church (op.36)
  • 1847: Seebnitz (op. 37)
  • 1848: Liegnitz, Church of Our Lady (op. 38)
  • 1850: Parchwitz (op. 39)
  • 1851: Falkenheim (op.40), Kotzenau (op.41), Kunnersdorf (op.42)
  • 1852: Prague, Protestant Church of St. Michael (op.43)
  • 1853: Schwerin (op. 44)
  • 1854: Naumburg (op. 45)
  • 1855: Lübben (op.46), Pombsen (op.47)
  • 1856: Haselbach (op.48), Rothbrünnig (op.49)
  • 1858: Vienna, Piarist Church (op.50)
  • 1861: Bialynitsche (op.51), Hoyerswerda, Evangelical Church (op.52)
  • 1862: Vienna, Hofburgkapelle (op.53)
  • 1864: Komorn, St. Andrew's Church (op.54)

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow: The doublet system is not a new invention. In: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. No. 42, October 18, 1843, col. 745-747 ( Google Books ).
  2. ^ Musical Instruments. ( Memento from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Hall sheets of the Technisches Museum Wien, p. 2 (in English, PDF, 108 kB)
  3. ↑ Information based on Buckow's application to build an organ in the Piarist Church in Vienna; according to the customs of the time, he counted extensive remodeling as independent works.
  4. ↑ Cf. catalog raisonné in: The music in history and present. P. 1164
personal data
SURNAME Buckow, Carl Friedrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1864
Place of death Komorn