Carl Hesse (organ builder)

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Johann Carl August Hesse (born August 6, 1808 in Paplitz , Kingdom of Prussia , † July 18, 1882 in Pest , Austria-Hungary ) was a German organ builder in Trieste and Vienna . He is considered one of the most important and productive organ builders in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in the 19th century.

Life

Carl Hesse was born as the son of the carpenter Johann Friedrich Hesse and Koch, born by Johanna Regina, in Paplitz, Brandenburg. It is unknown whether he began an apprenticeship as an organ builder there, but his work later showed influences from German organ building.

Around 1833 he came to Trieste , where he took over the workshop of Pietro Antonio Bossi . Carl Hesse studied Italian organ building and was significantly influenced by it throughout his life. In the following years he built some new plants in the Adriatic region, today's Slovenia and Croatia. In 1848 he built an organ in Gumpendorf , at that time still near Vienna, and settled there at Millergasse 19. The place was incorporated into Vienna in 1850. From there he built numerous organs, especially in the various countries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, but also some in the Russian and Ottoman empires.

In 1880 he moved to his son Franz in Pest (today in Budapest), where he died in 1882 after doing a lot and was buried in the local evangelical cemetery.

marriage and family

Carl Hesse was married to Maria Barbara Josefa Witek. The son Carl Hesse jun. (Hungarian Károly Hesse , 1854–1935) first founded a harmonium factory in Vienna and moved to Ödenburg (Sopron) around 1900 , where he built harmoniums and repaired organs. The son Johann Baptist Hesse worked as an instrument maker in Vienna, the son Franz Hesse (Ferenc Hesse) was a piano tuner and repairer in Pest .

Works (selection)

New organs

A catalog raisonné lists 108 new organs built by Carl Hesse up to 1873, including 60 in Hungary , 15 in Transylvania , at least 9 in the Adriatic region, 8 in Vienna , 6 in Lower Austria , and others in today's Slovenia , Croatia , Ukraine , Turkey , Egypt and other countries. Then others followed, especially in Lower Austria. Some have been preserved. Organs that are no longer available are in italics .

year opus place church image Manuals register Remarks
1836 1 Trieste Anglican Church Well preserved, 8 more organs followed in the Adriatic region
1843 5 Ragusa , today Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Croatia cathedral in case from 1690, not preserved
1847 8th Corta d'Isonzo, today Korte, Slovenia St. Augustine's Church I / P 12 receive ?
1848 10 Gumpendorf near Vienna Twelve Apostles Church , today Gustav Adolf Church II / P 29 first organ in Vienna
1853 11 Vienna wall Parish church Housing received
1852 12 Dekani, today Slovenia Church of the Assumption I / P 13 replaced around 1965
1850 (?) Wopfing, Lower Austria Parish church I / P 7th received, year does not fit into the opus series
1854 15th German Jahrndorf , Burgenland Protestant church I / P 10 receive
1854 Raggendorf , Lower Austria Parish church I / P 14th receive
1855 12 Veliki Bukovec, Dalmatia, Croatia Church of St. Francis of Assisi I / P ~ 10 is considered one of the most important preserved organs of the 19th century in Croatia
1856 22nd Perjamosch Haulik, today Periam, Banat Parish church I / P 11 receive
1857 25th Kamianets-Podilskyj , today Ukraine Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul II / P 20th receive
1860 32 Hermannstadt , today Sibiu, Transylvania Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Parish Church , former Jesuit church II / P 24 receive
1861 Lechnitz, Transylvania church I / p 8th 1908 to Paßbusch, stored in 1986, rebuilt and restored in Brașov (Kronstadt) in 2007 in the Black Church , there choir organ
1862 Mettersdorf, today Dumitru, Transylvania Protestant church Badly damaged in 1945, removed in 1975
1862 Neunkirchen , Lower Austria Evangelical parish church I / P 12 receive
1862 46 Oberschützen , Burgenland Evangelical parish church
Protestant Church Oberschützen Interior 09.jpg
 receive
1866 62 Pottendorf , Lower Austria Parish church I / P Year in the gaming table
1867 Kelling , today Câlnic, Transylvania Protestant church I / P 10 Repairs, but in poor condition
1868 Thunder market , today Mănărade, Transylvania Protestant church I / P 13 badly damaged, not playable
1869 Birthälm today Biertan, Transylvania Protestant church Ansamblu Biertan 17.jpg II / P 28 receive
1870 Rannersdorf , Lower Austria Parish church
1870 Vienna Altlerchenfeld Parish Church To the Seven Refuge I. 5
1871 Dunapentele (today Dunaújváros in Hungary) Trinity Church in old town
1873 100 Meschen , today Moșna, Transylvania Protestant church
Mosna Biserica fortificata (3) .JPG
 II / P 29 At the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873, restored in 2014
1873 107 Margarethen am Moos , Lower Austria Parish church I / P 8th receive
1874 Vienna Mechitarist Church Maria Schutz I / P 14th receive
1875 118 Mödling , Lower Austria Evangelical parish church I / p 6th To the mission house 1975 Schmiedrait given
1875 Altenwörth , Lower Austria Parish church I. 10 receive
1875 Rabenstein an der Pielach , Lower Austria Parish church Parish church Rabenstein an der Pielach 007.JPG I / P 10 receive
1875 St. Polten Teachers seminar I. 4th Small organ, supposedly preserved?
1877 Niedersulz , Lower Austria Parish church receive
1878 Hohenau an der March , Lower Austria Parish church I / P 10 Moved to Unzmarkt in 1933 , preserved?

More work

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1851 Vienna Mariahilfer Church II / p 32 modification

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bossi, Pietro Antonio Dizonario biografico dei Friulani (Italian)
  2. ↑ a b Alois Forer: The restored Carl Hesse organ in the Protestant parish church Vienna-Gumpendorf . In: Ev. Parish AB Vienna-Gumpendorf (ed.): Organ consecration of the restored Carl Hesse organ in Vienna-Gumpendorf. (PDF; 488 kB). Vienna 1979. Accessed April 19, 2013
  3. ^ Organ in Korte Orgeldatabase
  4. ↑ Organ in Vienna, Gustav-Adolf-Kirche organ database
  5. ↑ organ in Dekani organ Database
  6. ↑ organ in German Jahnsdorf organ Database
  7. ↑ Organs in Croatia with description (English)
  8. ^ Organ in Perjamosch Edition Musik Südost
  9. ^ Organ in the Kamyanets-Podilskyj Orgeldatabase
  10. ^ Organ in Kronstadt Organ file of the Evangelical Church A. .B. in Romania (German)
  11. ^ Organ in Mettersdorf Organ file of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania
  12. ^ Organ in Kelling organ file of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania (German)
  13. ↑ Organ in Donnersmarkt Organ file of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania (German)
  14. ^ Organ in Vienna Altlerchenfeld organ database
  15. ↑ Inauguration of the Carl-Hesse-Organ Siebenbürgen.de 2014, with detailed description and photo (German)
  16. ^ Organ in Meschen organ file of the Evangelical Church AB with history, as of 2012
  17. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-9500017-0-0 , p. 174
  18. ^ Organ in Vienna Mechitaristenkirche Orgeldatabase
  19. ^ Altenwörth Austrian Organ Database Karl Schütz, accessed on October 1, 2019
  20. ↑ DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria. North of the Danube. Niedersulz. Parish church hl. John the Baptist. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 797.
  21. ↑ The Mariahilfer Timeline. In: Internet presence Mariahilf and Sankt Josef ob der Laimgrube. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hesse, Johann Carl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Trieste and Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Paplitz , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1882
Place of death Pest , Austria-Hungary