Caspar Koenig

Caspar König (born November 15, 1675 in Ingolstadt ; † July 9, 1765 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Caspar König was the eldest son of Johann König . Like his two brothers Melchior (* 1680) and Balthasar (* 1684), who also built an organ and settled in the Rhineland, he was named after the Three Kings. After the father's death in 1691, the mother probably continued the business. In 1708 Caspar took over the workshop in Ingolstadt.

Along with Johann Ignaz Egedacher and Johann Konrad Brandenstein, he became the most important organ builder of his time in Old Bavaria.

His son Franz König (born September 28, 1717 in Ingolstadt ; † November 3, 1791 in Ingolstadt) was his successor. From 1755, the organ contracts were signed. But he no longer achieved the importance of his father.

List of works (excerpt)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1704	Landshut	Franciscan Church		I / P	12
1712	Freising	Franciscan Church		I / P	9
1721	Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate	Hofkirche Neumarkt		I / P	12
1725/1727	Niederaltaich	Niederaltaich Monastery Church		II / P	27	Prospectus received. 1985 new work by Georg Jann
1729	Weißenburg in Bavaria	St. Andrew		II / P	21st
1735	Appertshofen	Visitation of the Virgin Mary		I / P	7th	Originally the choir organ of the Franciscan Church in Ingolstadt . Pedal added later → organ
1736	Ingolstadt	Maria de Victoria		I / P	9	Prospectus received. Reconstruction by Orgelbau Kuhn 2007.
1739	Dießen am Ammersee	Marienmünster Dießen		II / P	25th

literature

• Georg Brenninger :  King, Caspar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 345 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : The organ builder families König in Ingolstadt, Münstereifel and Cologne . In: Roland Behrens and Christoph Grohmann (eds.): Dulce melos Organorum, Festschrift Alfred Reichling for his 70th birthday . Society of Organ Friends, Mettlach 2005, p. 111-168 .