David Posselt

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David Posselt was an Austrian organ builder who worked in Lower Austria in the last third of the 18th century .

life and work

Biographical details are hardly known. Posselt worked as an organ builder in Vienna and the surrounding area and is known as the "Viennese organ maker". It is assumed that he was not a bourgeois master, but received official approval for various commissioned works. Only parts of his organs have survived, such as the artistic prospectus in Eggendorf am Walde in the late Baroque style. In the past, however, the work was rated as a "moderately good organ".

List of works (selection)

Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved or only the historical case has been preserved. In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals and a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal . The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers . The last column provides information on the state of preservation or special features. Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved or only the historical case has been preserved.

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1766 Maissau Parish church Eggendorf am Walde Eggendorf organ 2.jpg I. 6th Parapet organ , prospectus received
17 ?? Vienna Castle in Wiener Neustadt II / P 14th New building for 600  florins , for which the old organ was traded in; not received
1771 Vienna Lichtentaler parish church Repair of the organ from 1714; Replaced in 1772
1772 Hausleiten Chapel of St. Aloysius New building; Get prospectus; Reconstructed organ
1772? Sieghartskirchen Sieghartskirchen parish church 1780 transfer to the St. Valentin branch church in Röhrenbach
1772 Erdberg Parish Church Erdberg (Poysdorf) New building for which 325 florins were paid and the old positive was traded in

literature

  • Otto Biba : Organ building in Lower Austria - An introduction . Working aid from the BDA, Vienna 1973.
  • Oskar Eberstaller: organs and organ builders in Austria. Böhlau, Graz / Cologne 1955.
  • Hans Haselböck: Baroque organ treasure in Lower Austria . Vienna, Munich 1972.
  • Hans Heiling: Brief inventory of the monument organs in Lower Austria. BDA working aid. Vienna 1973.
  • Karl Schütz: The Viennese organ building in the second half of the 18th century. (Dissertations from the University of Vienna; 35). Notring, Vienna 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schütz: The Viennese organ building. 1969, p. 21.
  2. ^ Association for regional studies of Lower Austria and Vienna (ed.): Our home . Vol. 64/65. Krnstall-Verlag, 1993, p. 117.
  3. ^ Eberstaller: Organs and Organ Builders in Austria. 1955, p. 84.
  4. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Lade, 2006, p. 74.
  5. ^ Organ in Sieghartskirchen , seen March 19, 2013.
  6. ↑ Leopold M. Kantner : Figaro là, Figaro quà. Commemorative publication Leopold M. Kantner. Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85450-230-3 , p. 318 f.
personal data
SURNAME Posselt, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potseld, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century or 19th century