Daniel heart

Daniel Herz (born June 4, 1618 in Munich , † May 28, 1678 in Wilten near Innsbruck) was a German-Austrian organ builder .

Life

The son of a Kistler renewed the organ in the parish church of Klausen in 1641–43 as the “organ maker of Minichen” , but was already living in Brixen , where he obtained resident rights in 1646. From 1653 he worked repeatedly for the Innsbruck court, in 1656 he moved to Innsbruck and is henceforth known as court organ maker. In 1671 he installed his workshop in Wilten.

Herz was the most important Tyrolean organ builder of the 17th century and as such enjoyed a far-reaching reputation. He also delivered organs to Upper Bavaria, Trentino and as far as Belluno and Jerusalem . Jacob Köck continued his tradition in Brixen and Johannes Hackhofer in Wilten . His grave slab has been preserved on the south side of the Wilten basilica; the date of death given there (June 5th) is incorrect. The most important playable instrument of his work is the organ in the Wilten collegiate church, built according to the extension system .

His son Anton Franz (born February 21, 1660 in Innsbruck, † April 8, 1717 in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse) also learned organ building. He settled in Bensheim in 1684 and was accepted as a citizen there on August 9, 1686. Organ structures are not known from him. In 1713 he is referred to as a "carpenter".

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1644-47	Sillian
1648-49	Brixen	Frauenkirche in the cloister
around 1651	Brixen	Parish church				Positive for the Corpus Christi Brotherhood
1651	Brixen	Dom				positive
1656	Stilfes
1656	Trens
1658	Agordo (Belluno)
1658-59	Tschengls
1659	Laces	Parish church
1659	Toblach
1660	Maria Waldrast
1660-61	St. Martin in Passeier
1663	Matrei in East Tyrol
1664	Sterzing	St. Margareth
1664	Niederdorf	Parish church
1665-68	Belluno	Cathedral
1671	Partenkirchen (Upper Bavaria)
1671-72	Meran	Parish Church of St. Nicholas
1675	(Innsbruck-) Wilten	Collegiate Church, choir organ
1675	Virgen
around 1676/77	Strigno
undated	Jerusalem	Holy Sepulcher
undated		positive				today in Trento , Museo Diocesano
	(Innsbruck-) Wilten	Collegiate Church, main organ				Completed in 1680 by Johannes Hackhofer

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Heart, Daniel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1862, p. 408 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Herz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Organ builder lexicon Tyrol (source for this article)