Christoph Julius Bünting

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Christoph Julius Bünting (* in the 18th century ; † after 1766 ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

Only a few biographical details are known about Christoph Julius Bünting. He was born the son of the Hamburg organ builder Konrad Bünting. In 1733 the father moved to Lübeck, where he had been entrusted with work on the large organ of St. In Lübeck Konrad Bünting worked alongside the Schnitger student Hans Hantelmann and his student Christoph Erdmann Vogel.

There is evidence of joint work by Christoph Julius Bünting and his father in the 1730s. In addition to extensions in the Hanseatic city, the son carried out repairs and conversions in the wider area of ​​Lübeck. The spelling “Bünding” is used by himself. The name "August Wilhelm Bünting", which is mentioned during the Curslacker expansion, seems to be confused. In the Jakobikirche in Lübeck, Christoph Julius Bünting expanded the large organ and in the Marienkirche both organs with a small swell based on the English model, which could be played from the upper keyboard and was mainly provided with tongue registers . On several organs, Bünting expanded the missing tones in the bass octave and built in coupling .

List of works

In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1736-1739 Curslack St. Johannis Sjcu main organ.jpg II / P 19th Extension and new construction of the prospectus, transfer to the west gallery; Prospectus received
1739-1740 Ratzeburg Ratzeburg Cathedral Repair together with his father
1739-1741 Lübeck Jakobikirche , great organ
Germany Luebeck St Jakobi organ.jpg
 III / P 62 Conversion of the breastwork into an upper work behind the main work and extension by 3 registers and addition of a trombone 32 ′ → organ to the pedal
1742 Groemitz St. Nikolai
Grömitz Nikolai Organ.jpg
 New building; Prospectus received
1758 Lübeck Marienkirche , great organ III / P 53? Extension by a swell with 2 tongue registers
1760-1761 Lübeck Marienkirche , death dance organ
Marienkirche before 1942.jpg
 III / P 41 Expansion by a swell with 3 registers
1754-1766 Mölln St. Nicolai Mölln St. Nicolai organ.jpg III / P 38 technical new construction including old registers, extension of the manual scope; Case and 5 registers (221 pipes) preserved in Bünting's main factory

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 .
  • Dietrich Wölfel: The wonderful world of the organ. Lübeck as an organ city . 2nd Edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, ISBN 3-7950-1261-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, 186.
  2. ↑ Eduard Hach: On the history of the great organ in the St. Jakobi Church in Lübeck and the epitaph of Jochim Wulff there. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History. Vol. 7, 1898, pp. 129–150, here: p. 147 ( online , accessed on May 11, 2018, PDF).
  3. ^ Günther Elgnowski: Sacred music in old Hamburg. Christians, Hamburg 1961, p. 111.
  4. ↑ Wölfel: The wonderful world of the organ. 2004, pp. 65, 88, 108.
  5. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 162.
  6. ↑ Collection of materials. The historic Scherer-Bünting organ in Mölln , pp. 118–119.
personal data
SURNAME Bünting, Christoph Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1766