Caspar Melchior Vorenweg

Caspar Melchior Vorenweg (baptized on September 6, 1753 in Menden (Sauerland) ; † January 1, 1844 ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Melchior Vorenweg was born as the third child of the master carpenter Wilhelm Vorenweg and his wife Helena. Through his father he came into contact with organ building. When Balthasar König built the organ in St. Vincenz in Menden in 1756, he was named as the “structure maker”. A sister died in 1832, and an older son was named Everhard. Presumably Melchior Vorenweg learned organ building from Christian Ludwig König .

Vorenweg settled in Münster in 1789 at the latest. He was the founder of the Westphalian organ family Vorenweg-Kersting, to which his nephew Johann Kersting (1784–1854) and his son Caspar Melchior Kersting (1815–1879) also belonged. Vorenweg later worked with his nephew. In 1828 he largely withdrew from organ building and moved to Kersting. Occasionally, Vorenweg took over maintenance work. He died on New Year's Day 1844 at the age of 91 after a long illness. After Johann Kersting, Melchior Kersting continued the workshop, which existed until his death in 1879.

Vorenweg enriched Westphalian organ building with Rhenish-French influences.

His pupils included Johann Heinrich Brinkmann (1794–1848), who opened a workshop in Herford in 1819, and Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld , who worked with him as a journeyman until 1827, and Wilhelm Korffmacher (1787–1860).

List of works (selection)

The following organ buildings have been verified by him:

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1784	Muenster	Minorite monastery, now the Apostle Church	II / P	14th	New building; 1821 sold to St. Lamberti and possibly expanded in this context (II / P / 27)
1788	Cappenberg	Collegiate church	II / P	28	New building; 1825 rearranged by Franz Breil ; Restored to its original condition in 2004 by Klais ; receive
1790	Drensteinfurt	Parish Church of St. Regina	II / p	13	New building; Housing received
around 1790	Bark	St. John			New building; not received
around 1790	Coesfeld	Capuchin monastery			New building; not received
1794/1795	Nienborg	St. Peter and Paul			New building; some registers are said to have been integrated into the new Klingenhegel organ in 1950
1797	Westbevern	St. Cornelius and Cyprianus			New building; not received
1800	Ennigerloh	St. James			New building; not received
1810	Coesfeld	Capuchin monastery			New building; not received
1812	Ladbergen	Ev. church	I / p	10	New building; Housing of the main factory preserved
1816/1817	Oldenzaal	Hervormde Waterstaatskerk	I / p	9	New building; 1876 extended to II / 15 by Gerardus Elberink; Broke off with the church in 1933
1818/1819	Ostenfelde	St. Margaretha			New building; not received
1823-1826	Muenster	St. Aegidien			New building, together with Kersting; not received

literature

Wolf Kalipp : The Westphalian family of organ builders Vorenweg-Kersting (1784–1879) (= publications of the organ studies research center in the musicological seminar of the Westphalian Wilhelms University, Münster . Volume 12 ). Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 1984, ISBN 3-7618-0725-2 .

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Fischer , Hans-Wolfgang Theobald: The Rhenish organ builders Balthasar and Christian Ludwig König , p. 28 (PDF; 565 kB).
↑ Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, pp. 2-3.
^ Herbert Bruges: Organ building in the Tecklenburger Land . Bärenreiter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7618-1498-7 , pp. 89 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, p. 4.
↑ Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-87023-245-5 , p. 10 .
^ Gabriel Isenberg: Organ landscape in transition. The history of the organs in the South Westphalian districts of Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein between 1800 and 1945. A contribution to the organ history of Westphalia . University of Music Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden 2017, p. 345 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-167184 (dissertation).
^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 40 ). tape 4 : Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-1342-0 , p. 44 .
↑ Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, p. 235.

personal data
SURNAME	First of all, Caspar Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	First of all, Caspar Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized September 6, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH	Menden (Sauerland)
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1844

[1] Hermann Fischer , Hans-Wolfgang Theobald: The Rhenish organ builders Balthasar and Christian Ludwig König , p. 28 (PDF; 565 kB).

[2] Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, pp. 2-3.

[3] Herbert Bruges: Organ building in the Tecklenburger Land . Bärenreiter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7618-1498-7 , pp. 89 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[4] Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, p. 4.

[5] Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-87023-245-5 , p. 10 .

[6] Gabriel Isenberg: Organ landscape in transition. The history of the organs in the South Westphalian districts of Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein between 1800 and 1945. A contribution to the organ history of Westphalia . University of Music Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden 2017, p. 345 , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-167184 (dissertation).

[7] Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 40 ). tape 4 : Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-1342-0 , p. 44 .

[8] Kalipp: The Westphalian organ building family Vorenweg-Kersting. 1984, p. 235.