Christian Joachim

Christian Joachim (around 1680 in Schafstädt ; † after 1745 in Halle (Saale) ) was a student of Arp Schnitger and organ builder in Halle.

life and work

Joachim was born in Schafstädt (near Halle) and learned organ building from Andreas Theissner in 1697, where he was a journeyman until 1705. He then worked for three years with Arp Schnitger (1706–1708). He acquired citizenship in Halle in 1709 and was responsible for the city's organ inventory until 1748. In addition to organs, Joachim also built clavichords .

His pupil was Heinrich Andreas Contius , who took over Joachim's office in Halle from 1748 and from 1762 became an important organ builder in the Baltic States .

Works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1711	Bündorf ( Knapendorf )	Bündorf Church				New building
1714/1715	Halle -Neumarkt	St. Laurence		II / P	24	New building
1715	Lettin	St. Wenceslas				New construction of a positive
1715/1716	Diemitz	John the Baptist		I.	6th	New building
1716	Halle -Neumarkt	St. Ulrich Church		III / P	38	Reorganization of the organ by Christian Förner (1675); Prospectus received
1718/1719	Teicha	St. Mauritius		I.	11	New building

literature

• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 280 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 146 .
• Wilfried Stüven: Organ and organ builder in the Halle region before 1800 . Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1964.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. 2009, p. 146.