Claudius Winterhalter

Claudius Winterhalter (born April 10, 1953 ) is a German organ builder .

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Claudius Winterhalter got his first contact with organ building in the workshop of his father, the organ builder Franz Winterhalter , who also worked as a church musician. He received his first piano and organ lessons from him and later learned to play the flute.

After training as an organ builder and the following years of practical experience, he passed the master's examination at the instrument making school in Ludwigsburg in 1975/1976 . At that time he was one of the youngest organ builders ever. Claudius Winterhalter then continued his education in various workshops, in particular he conducted intensive studies on the construction of French organs of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the summer of 1983 he officially took over his father's workshop.

Claudius Winterhalter's work focuses on the areas of intonation and design. There are usually ten employees in his workshop. He lives and works in Zell am Harmersbach and Oberharmersbach in the Black Forest.

List of works

year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1984	Cork (throat)	Heart of jesus	II	15th
1985	Munich	Trinity Church	II	15th
1987	Ottersweier	St. John	III	34
1989	Tauberbischofsheim	St. Martin	III	40
1987/1988	Muggensturm	Mary Queen of Angels			Restoration of the Schwarz organ
1991	Weir	St. Martin	II	20th	Choir organ
1993	Boeblingen	Ev. City parish church of St. Dionysius	III	33
1996	Achern	Our Lady	II	33
1997	Ochsenfurt	City parish church of St. Andreas	III	39
1998	Gerolzhofen	Mary of the Rosary	III	36	In the oldest surviving case from Funtsch and Berns, around 1712
1999	Grafenrheinfeld	Finding the Cross	III	43	Based on Aristide Cavaillé-Coll on the 100th year of his death.
2000	Herbolzheim / Breisgau	St. Alexius
2002	Offenburg	Weingartenkirche
2003	Welschensteinach	St. Peter and Paul
2005	Darmstadt	St. Ludwig	III / P	43	Arranged in the French-romantic style.
2006	Bitburg	Church of Our Lady
2006	Stuttgart	St. Eberhard
2007	Bonn	St. Winfried	II / P	16
2008	Alpirsbach	Monastery church	III	32 + 9 + 4	Organ sculpture . As a special construction, the almost twelve meter high and 17 ton heavy organ work in the church can be moved and rotated.
2009	Feuerthalen , Switzerland	St. Leonhard	II / P
2010	Steingaden	Wieskirche	III / P	42
2012	Roth	Assumption of the Virgin Mary	II / P	24	Whistle courses opposite to the pitch course on the keyboard
2013	Freiburg in Breisgau	St. Blaise	II	17th
2014	Constance-Petershausen	St. Gebhard	III / P	55	Organ inaugurated on July 13, 2014
2015	Gelnhausen	Marienkirche	II / P	14th	Choir organ with two manuals, with a mobile three-manual general console, which has also been able to control the main organ since 2018.
2018	Gelnhausen	Marienkirche	III / P	41	Main organ, connected to the organ system with the choir organ from 2015, historical case by Wilhelm August Ratzmann was retained and brought closer to the original condition.
2018	Hamburg-Stellingen	Stellinger Church	II / P	23	also preliminary prints, extensions and alternating loops