Christoph Egedacher

Joseph Christoph Egedacher the Younger (born May 19, 1641 in Straubing ; † April 6, 1706 in Salzburg ) worked as an organ builder in Bavaria and Salzburg . From 1673–1706 he was court organ maker in the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg .

Life

In 1701 Christoph Egedacher acquired the house at Augustinergasse 2 / Müllner Hauptstr. 17, the egg house and garden on the stairs to milln .

Christoph Egedacher (d. J.), who is always registered in the baptism, marriage and death registers as Christophorus Egedacher , is the son of Christoph Egedacher the Elder and belongs to the Straubing organ building dynasty of the Egedacher , which together with the Butz and Freundt families as most important representatives of the south German organ building school and thus of the Bavarian and (today's) Austrian area.

He probably received his training as an organ builder from his father, who first had his workshop in his house on Rindermarkt (today Fraunhoferstraße) in Straubing, and later in the so-called Old Propstei at Obern Tor. He did not take over the workshop of his father, who died around 1661, as he received Munich citizenship on December 12, 1662. In the Munich residents' files he is referred to as an organ builder and organist . On January 15, 1663, he married in the Munich parish church of St. Peter Maria Sour, with whom he had twelve children, four of whom later worked as organ builders: Johann Christoph Egedacher (Munich, January 3, 1666), Johann Joseph (Munich, January 30, 1666) May 1668), Johann Ignaz Egedacher (Salzburg, July 15, 1673) and Johann Franz Xaver (Salzburg, March 31, 1678)

The death of the Salzburg court organ maker Mathias Rotenburger († March 3, 1668) was probably the reason for Christoph Egedacher to apply for his position. However, he did not receive the court organ maker's decree until 1673. But in 1664 and 1668 he had received orders in the Salzburg monastery area , for example to build the two organs in the parish church of Kitzbühel . From 1671 onwards, Egedacher can be traced back to work in the Salzburg monastery area.

Egedacher seems to have quickly gained prosperity through a plethora of orders, because in 1701 he was able to acquire a house in Mülln : Augustinergasse 2 / Mülleggstrasse 17, which was called "the egghaus and garden bey der stiegen zu milln" (now: Müllner Hauptstrasse 17 , the house in which Stelzhamer later temporarily lived).

Egedacher must have valued his performance as an organ builder, otherwise he would not have "committed" himself in the contract for the construction of the great Salzburg cathedral organ of August 2, 1702, to "identify the work and bring it to complete perfection" within a year, if his " Habb und gutts in genere, in specie ”of his“ owning, proprietary housing in Mülln sambt their associated rights and justice ”. This contract also mentions two sons, Johann Christoph and Johann Ignaz, and six journeymen as employees.

Christoph Egedacher (d. J.) died at the age of 65 on April 5, 1706 in Salzburg-Mülln.

List of works (selection)

The list includes some of his proven new builds.

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for a separate pedal.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1662	Munich	Munich residence
1664	Kitzbühel	Parish church , now in the Liebfrauenkirche		I.	4th	since 1907 in the adjacent Liebfrauenkirche
1668	Kitzbühel	City parish church Kitzbühel		I.	10	Main organ, case preserved
1669	regensburg	St. Emmeram (Regensburg)				not received
1671/72 reconstruction	Grossgmain	Pilgrimage church		I / P	6 + 2	Egedacher has given an instrument that had 6 registers a new case and added a pedal wind chest for 2 registers, but did not build a new one, as was assumed until 2012. Canceled in 1844/45.
1674	Sankt Georgen near Salzburg	Parish Church of St. Georgen near Salzburg
1677	St. Johann in Tirol	Deanery Parish Church
1678	Mondsee	Mondsee basilica		II / P		The work is attributed to Egedacher, it has not survived. The case was figuratively designed by Meinrad Guggenbichler in 1690 and has been containing a work by Alfred Kern & fils since 1999 .
1679	Salzburg - Mülln	Parish Church of Mülln				Prospectus received
circa 1680	Landshut	Martinskirche				The prospectus has been preserved, but was expanded to the left and right in 1914. The instrument was wrongly ascribed to the Munich organ builder Hans Lechner. → main organ
1681	Salzburg-Nonnberg	Nonnberg Collegiate Church
1682	Bergheim / Maria Plain	Pilgrimage basilica of the Assumption of Mary		I / P	9	The prospectus comes from Simon Fries and has been preserved, only the middle section has been changed several times: for the first time in 1749, when u. a. the clock was separated from the case and attached to the church ceiling. → organ
1683	Hallein	Augustinian monastery church				The organ was only slightly damaged in the fire on March 23, 1943, but was then disposed of.
1682-86	Benediktbeuern	St. Benedict				Egedacher provided the organ with a console . In 1760 and 1771 alterations were carried out by Andreas Jäger , but a large part of the pipework has been preserved.
1688	Salzburg	Erhard Church		I / P	6th	Brochure received in converted form. → organ
1688	Gois	Filial church St. Jakob
1689	Mariazell , now in Sankt Veit am Vogau	Pilgrimage Basilica of Mary's Birth		II / P	20th	The organ was built in 1688/89 for the Mariazell pilgrimage church, later dismantled and rebuilt in St. Veit am Vogau in 1753.
1690	Goldegg	Filial church St. Anna in Weng		I.	6th	The instrument was only ascribed to Chr. Egedacher. A restoration took place in 2006 by master organ builder Johann Pieringer.
1693	Mauterndorf
1696	Kössen	Parish church
1696	Golling	Parish church		I.	6th	Not received.
1696	Brixen im Thale	Parish church
1697	Salzburg	Kajetanerkirche (former Theatinerkirche)		I.	9
1697	Stumm (Tyrol)	Parish church
1698/99	Waldsassen	Waldsassen Collegiate Basilica		II / P		Not received. The current brochure is from Johann Konrad Brandenstein (1738). New buildings in a row by Siemann , Pfaff and Jann .
1699	Salzburg	Priest house church
1699	Salzburg	The former church of St. Salvator				Established for 300 guilders for the so-called Red Brotherhood , the Arch Brotherhood Corporis Christi , and sold to the Vicariate Church of Tettenhausen for 140 guilders by resolution of November 4, 1802 .
around 1700	in Thalgau since 1872	Kreuzkapelle		I.	4th	The instrument is attributed to Chr. Egedacher, it is very similar to a work in Munich. A restoration was carried out in 2012 by master organ builder Johann Pieringer. The positive was bought for the Kreuzkapelle in 1872.
1702/03	Salzburg	Salzburg Cathedral		II / P	24	The organ was built based on a wooden model made by Lorenz Windpichler. Johann Ernst , Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, made 5000 guilders available for the new building . → Main article: organ
1704	Hallein	Parish church Hallein		II / P	13	The organ ascribed to Christoph Egedacher has not survived. The now so-called Gruber organ was rebuilt by Rieger in 2018 .

literature

• Georg Brenninger: The Straubing organ builder Christoph Egedacher . In: Die Musikforschung , No. 29 (1976), pp. 56-60.
• Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria . Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7654-1704-1
• Rupert Frieberger: Organ building in Upper Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries . With special consideration of existing instruments. Innsbruck 1984.
• Otmar Heinz: Early Baroque organs in Styria. On the genesis of a south German-Austrian type of instrument of the 17th century, Berlin 2012, (research on the historical regional studies of Styria, published by the Historical Commission for Styria , Volume 53), ISBN 978-3-643-50232-2
• Rupert Klieber: Brotherhoods and associations of love after Trento . Your service to death, encouragement and importance in church and social life using the example of Salzburg (1600–1950). Habilitation thesis: Vienna 1997.
• Josef Saam: The old Passau organ builders . Their origins and work from 1467 to 1744. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken , Passau 1977 (Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde), pp. 108–137.
• Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg's pilgrimage churches , Duisburg & Cologne: WiKu-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86553-446-0 (also dissertation: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Mozarteum University 2012).
• Hermann Spies: The Salzburg Great Cathedral Organs . Augsburg 1929.
• Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982.
• Kurt Estermann: The Christoph Egedacher organ of the Liebfrauenkirche in Kitzbühel . Innsbruck 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ AES , Salzburg-Mülln, death book (STB2), 1699–1740. See: [1] , picture number 03-Tod_0040, accessed on June 11, 2019
2. ^ Roman Matthias Schmeißner: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , dissertation University Mozarteum Salzburg 2012, p. 94ff.
3. ^ Otmar Heinz: Early baroque organs in Styria. On the genesis of a southern German-Austrian type of instrument from the 17th century, Berlin 2012, (Research on the historical regional studies of Styria, published by the Historical Commission for Styria , Volume 53), p. 161 (footnote 375) and 162.
4. ↑ On Monday, December 10th, 1877, Matthäus Mauracher began to install a new organ. No income could be obtained from the old organ ; AES : AB Golling, Oeconomica 6/102/15 (Golling, December 9, 1877).
5. ↑ Rupert Klieber: Brotherhoods and associations of love after Trient . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34044-3 , pp. 97 .
6. ↑ Rupert Klieber: Brotherhoods and associations of love after Trient . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-631-34044-3 , pp. 143 .
7. ↑ According to the assessment of the Imperial and Royal State Conservation Office of December 19, 1917. In: Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis, University of Education Salzburg 1982, p. 28.
8. ^ [2] German Museum Munich
9. ↑ The seller was Matthäus Mauracher, who received 30 florins for the positive. In: Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis, University of Education Salzburg 1982, p. 28.
10. ↑ The model was destroyed in an air raid on Salzburg , only parts have been preserved in the Salzburg Museum , along with one or more photographs of the same.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Egedacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Organ landscape Tyrol: Egedacher, Christoph
• Christoph Egedacher in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)