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Daniel Mütze (baptized January 24, 1683 in Bringhausen ; † May 23, 1741 in Sachsenberg (Lichtenfels) ) was a German organ builder who worked mainly in Waldeckischen and in the Marburg area.

Life

(Johann) Daniel Mütze was born as the son of the miller Johann Reinhard Mütze (* 1636 in Sachsenberg) and his wife Anna Elisabeth b. Hunter born. Mütze may have learned organ building from Johann Jacob John or from the brothers Andreas and Bernhard Reinecke, whose organ he completed in Thalitter after the death of Andreas Reinecke . He then settled in Sachsenberg, where he acquired citizenship in 1712/13. In 1713 Mütze married Anna Elisabeth Menckel in Bromskirchen . The marriage had four children, all of whom died early. Mütze himself died six weeks after his wife's death. His nephew Johann Conrad Thiele (baptized on November 25, 1714; † October 29, 1756), son of Mützes sister Anna Catharina, who was nine years older than him, continued the workshop until his death, but could not maintain the level of his uncle.

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Mützes organs reveal Westphalian influences, which can be seen above all in the design of the prospectus. Starting from the large round or polygonal central tower, lower two-storey flat fields or pointed towers follow, the cornices of which slope downwards in steps. The brochures show various transitional forms to the Central German normal type. In the surviving works, however, Mütze did not use spring lockers , but slide chests . Mütze mainly built small single-manual organs without an independent pedal.

Pastor Johann Caspar Sauer, who worked as an organ appraiser, recommended Mütze for the new organ in Marburg's Elisabeth Church and wrote that Mütze was “ probably the most renowned organ builder in the country, while those who live nearby have less science and their works do not last very long be. “For financial reasons, this new building of a three-manual organ was not realized. It is probably thanks to Sauer's support that Mütze received a number of orders in the Marburg area.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1704	Bromskirchen	Ev. church		II / P	10	Attribution: joint work with Andreas / Bernhard Reinecke ?; hanging pipes in the middle pipe tower; Rebuilt in 1913
1713	Reservoir stream	St. Mary of the Assumption				Prospectus received
around 1714	Sachsenberg	Ev. church		I.	8th	not received
1714-1715	Hallenberg
1716-1719	Korbach	St. Kilian
1720	Mardorf (Amöneburg)	St. Hubertus		II / P	26th	1858–1862 new building by Friedrich Helbig, who took over registers from the previous organ; 1977 new building by Bernhardt Schmidt behind historical housing by Helbig and use of a few older registers; 2008 Extension, renovation and partial restoration by Gerald Woehl
1725	Jesberg	Ev. church				receive
1727-1728	Thalitter	Mountain church		I / P	14th	Completion of the new building by Andreas Reinecke (1724); 1882 reconstruction by Eduard Vogt ; Prospectus with original pipes received
1732	Armsfeld	Ev. church		I.	9	Oldest surviving organ in the Waldeck district; Except for one register completely preserved, severely impaired during renovation in 1980, renewed renovation by Dieter Noeske in 2001
1733	Dillich			I.	8th	not received
1737	Allendorf	St. Catherine				Prospectus received
1738	Sachsenhausen (Waldeck)	St. Nicholas
1742	Anzefahr	St. Michael		I.		in the 20th century extended by a positive chest to two manuals; Prospectus and some registers from Mütze preserved
?	Vöhl	Martinskirche				Moved to Ober-Werbe in 1887 and preserved there

literature

• Gerhard Aumüller : Johann Jacob John, the Reinecke brothers and their connections to organ building in Westphalia and Waldeck . In: Westphalian magazine . tape 145 , 1995, pp. 73-128 .
• Gerhard Aumüller: Westphalian style elements of baroque organs in Waldeck and in the Marburger Land. The organ builders Andreas Reinecke and Daniel Mütze and their relationship to the Westphalian organ building . In: Alma mater Philippina . tape 70 , 1997, pp. 17-21 .
• Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 144-202 .
• Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builder in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) . Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 (publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 43).
• Franz Vogel: Organs in northwestern Hesse . In: Ars Organi . tape 34 , 1986, pp. 34-40 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Trinkaus, Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. 1997, p. 182.
2. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, p. 268.
3. ^ Trinkaus, Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. 1997, pp. 191f.
4. ^ Aumüller: Westphalian style elements of baroque organs. 1997, pp. 20f.
5. ^ Aumüller: Westphalian style elements of baroque organs. 1997, p. 20.
6. ^ Organ in Mardorf , seen on June 15, 2012.