Christoph Treutmann

Christoph Treutmann (* around 1673 in Silesia ; † June 10, 1757 in Magdeburg ), also Christoph Treutmann the Elder, in contrast to his son of the same name, was a master organ builder of the Baroque period . He learned from Heinrich Herbst in Magdeburg and founded his own workshop there. His most important surviving work is the large organ of the Grauhof collegiate church .

Life

Treutmann organ in the collegiate church of St. Georg, Goslar-Grauhof

Christoph Treutmann learned his trade from the Herbst family organ builders in Magdeburg. His teacher was Heinrich Herbst the Younger , the son of Heinrich Herbst the Elder . Herbst (d. J.) later built the cathedral organ in Halberstadt between 1714 and 1718 . Since Treutmann's works show stylistic similarities to the organs of the Hamburg organ builder Arp Schnitger , it is assumed that Treutmann worked at least for a while as a journeyman and possibly also on the construction of the "Arp Schnitger organ" (1689 to 1694) in St. Johannis -Kirche in Magdeburg .

Treutmann went into business for himself in 1695 and founded his own workshop around 1700. The repair of the Brunswick cathedral organ in 1700 is known as his first independent work . According to this, the repair of an organ built by Gottfried Fritzsche in 1637 in the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Allermöhe near Hamburg is proven. Other works are known from 1713 in the Magdeburg area. Between 1721 and 1723 Treutmann built the organs of the St. Marien and St. Nikolai churches in Gardelegen ; then he expanded the organ of the castle church in Harbke near Helmstedt, also a work by Gottfried Fritzsche from 1621/22.

In 1732 he worked again in Magdeburg and built an organ for the French Reformed community there. The monastery Grauhof in Goslar issued Treutmann in 1734 the contract for the building of an organ with a total of 42 stops and 2,500 pipes. It was completed in 1737 and is considered his most important work; It was restored from 1989 to 1992. In 1741 Treutmann received another repair order for an organ from Arp Schnitger in the St. Jacobi Church and, between 1747 and 1750, revised another work by Schnitger in the St. Johannis Church in Magdeburg.

Works (selection)

Treutmann organs were created for:

1721–1723: St. Marien and St. Nikolai (Gardelegen)
1725: St. Eustachius (Diesdorf, Magdeburg)
1727–1728: St. Levin Church ( Harbke Castle )
1734–1737: Collegiate Church of St. Georg (Grauhof, Goslar)
1742: St. George's Church (Calvörde)

literature

Seth Heinrich Calvisius: The destroyed and rebuilt Magdeburg, or The bloody siege and miserable conquest and the like. Destruction of the old city of Magdeburg, as it happened from the beginning of 1631 to the end of the same remarkable year, etc. Seidels Wittwe and Scheidhauer, Magdeburg 1727, p. 340, OCLC 84645378 .
Heiko Dückering; Peter H Gottwald: The Treutmann organ in the Grauhof monastery. H. Schneider, Tutzing 1974, ISBN 3-7952-0153-5 .
The Christoph Treutmann organ in the former Augustinian canons' monastery at Grauhof near Goslar. A commemorative publication for the rededication of the organ after the restoration. Association for the promotion of the restoration of the Treutmann organ from 1737 in the monastery church Grauhof, Goslar 1992, OCLC 611660897 .
Rainer Boestfleisch: Treutmann, Christoph. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 708-709 .

Web links

Treutmann organ, St. Georg Goslar-Grauhof - Klosterkammer ... (PDF; 3.1 MB) on klosterkammer.de

Individual evidence

↑ Year of birth around 1674/75 Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 708-709 .
↑ In 1727 he was a member of the church college of St. Jakobi (Seth-Henricus Calvisius: The destroyed and re-erected Magdeburg. P. 340).
^ The registration instructions for the organ by Christoph Treutmann in 1728 in the Schlosskirche zu Harbke on walcker-stiftung.de, accessed on November 15, 2013. (PDF; 150 kB)

^ History and importance of the Treutmann organ in Grauhof on treutmann-orgel.de, accessed on November 15, 2013.

↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 708-709 .

personal data
SURNAME	Treutmann, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Christoph Treutmann the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1673 and 1675
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1757
Place of death	Magdeburg

[1] Year of birth around 1674/75 Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 708-709 .

[2] In 1727 he was a member of the church college of St. Jakobi (Seth-Henricus Calvisius: The destroyed and re-erected Magdeburg. P. 340).

[3] The registration instructions for the organ by Christoph Treutmann in 1728 in the Schlosskirche zu Harbke on walcker-stiftung.de, accessed on November 15, 2013. (PDF; 150 kB)

[4] History and importance of the Treutmann organ in Grauhof on treutmann-orgel.de, accessed on November 15, 2013.

[5] Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 708-709 .