Emanuel Kemper

Emanuel Kemper (1928)

Plaque in Lübeck's Jakobikirche to commemorate Kemper's 50th anniversary as an organist (1922)

Typical company sign, as found on the console of numerous Kemper organs

Emanuel Philipp Kemper , originally Emanuel Kempper (born June 14, 1844 in Lübeck ; † May 10, 1933 ibid) was a German organist and organ builder and founder of a family business in Lübeck. During the founder's lifetime, the organ building company acquired a respected reputation for the preservation and restoration of baroque organs, especially those in the Altes Land . After 1945 the business area developed explosively with countless new buildings. Of the 1000 opera of post-war instruments that were once built , around 100 organs still exist in the north church today, including the largest instrument at the time in Lübeck's Marienkirche .

history

Emanuel (Philipp) Kemper

Emanuel (Philipp) Kemper was the son of the music teacher Adolf Kemper. After attending the Lübeck Cathedral School, he learned to be a carpenter. This was followed by an apprenticeship in organ building at the Danish company Marcussen & Søn . He received lessons in organ playing and harmony from the Jacobi organist Johann Jochim Diedrich Stiehl and the organist of the Reformed Church , Konrad Geibel , the brother of Emanuel Geibel . The own company was founded in 1868. Since he took over the organ building company from Theodor Vogt, he was given responsibility for almost all of Lübeck's organs. From 1872 until the end of 1930 he was Stiehl's successor and organist at the Jakobikirche in Lübeck , where Hugo Distler succeeded him.

Karl (Reinhold) Kemper

His son Karl (Reinhold) Kemper (* 1880 in Lübeck; † 1956 there) took over the company in 1910 and ran it under the name E. Kemper & Sohn . He reintroduced the mechanical sliding chest and became known as an important representative of the organ movement . His restorations of baroque organs in the 1920s and 1930s served as role models for the responsible use of the material, for example in the repair of the organ in Altenbruch (1925) with advice from Hans Henny Jahnn . In 1919 the company was expanded.

In 1929 Kemper opened a branch in Bartenstein in East Prussia , in which Werner Renkewitz worked. She carried out significant renovations in the Frauenburg Cathedral (1935) and in the Gdańsk Marienkirche (1935/38), in each of which she connected the choir organ to the main organ with electrical cables, in Gdańsk to 120 registers. In 1943 she built the largest organ in East Prussia in Königsberg .

Individual organs from E. Kemper & Sohn were delivered to Sweden , Luxembourg , the Middle Rhine and Rome .

Emanuel (Magnus) Kemper

The grandson Emanuel (Magnus) Kemper (* 1906 in Aabenraa, † 1978 in Lübeck) again limited himself to Northern Germany and the Middle Rhine. The destruction of the Second World War brought high demand for new buildings. From today's perspective, his new instruments are often viewed critically. Some organs showed considerable defects after a short time and were torn down again after a few decades or sold on to Eastern and Central Europe.

Emanuel Reinhold Kemper

In 1974 his son Emanuel Reinhold Kemper (born January 8, 1947 in Lübeck; † November 10, 2007 in Lübeck) took over the company Lübecker Orgelbau GmbH (E. Kemper) , which became insolvent four years later. In 1978 he re-founded it as E. Kemper Lübecker Orgelbau , then in 1981 with his mother Ella Kemper as Kemper E. u. E. Organ building . It carried out some repairs and alterations to organs.

List of works (selection)

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for a separate pedal . Lost organs are in italics .

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1903	Lübeck	Auditorium of the Ernestine School		II / P	9	Expanded in 1956 and sold to the Zionskirche in Hamburg ( SELK ) via Kemper , demolished there in 1982, the facade today in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Düsseldorf-Derendorf)
1903	Lübeck	Auditorium of the school teacher seminar house		I.	8th	eight voices
1916	Lübeck	Aegidienkirche		III / P	47	1916 new building behind a historic prospect; 1939/40 extensively rebuilt by Karl Kemper, replaced in 1982 → organ of the Aegidienkirche (Lübeck)
1930/1931	Nordhausen	St. Jacobi		III / P	38	The church and organ were destroyed in the bombing of Nordhausen in World War II
1937	Halbau (Iłowa), Upper Lusatia	Christ the King Church		III / P	28
1937/1938	Berlin-Spandau	Evangelical Johannesstift, church		IV / P	44	for church music school in 1968 by Walcker organ replaced
1938	Schierke	Mountain church		II / P	14th	Using parts of the previous organ (Reubke 1881)
around 1938	Danzig	Marienkirche		II / P	32	Choir organ, connected to the main organ with 120 registers, destroyed in 1945 → organ
1939	Berlin-Spandau	Collegiate Church of St. John		IV / P	57	Replaced in 1963
1941	Loitz , Western Pomerania	St. Mary's Church		III / P	36
1943	Koenigsberg , East Prussia	Old town church		V / P	71	Destroyed in 1944/1945
1948	Castle on Fehmarn	St. Nikolai				In a historical baroque case; the Kemper organ only had prospect pipes made of copper (!); 1975 Replaced by the new Kleuker building using the copper prospect pipes in the pedal towers.
1951	Wins	Martini Church		III / P	39	1985–2003 conversions by Mebold
1951	Hamburg-Harburg	St. Mary		III / P	38	In 1969 the organ was enlarged by the builder company
1953	Düsseldorf - Bilk	Luther Church		III / P	29	Replaced in 1991 by a new building from the Westenfelder company
1953	bad Bentheim	St. John the Baptist		II / P	24
1953	Baiertal	Protestant church		II / P	18th
1954	Wins	Nikolaikirche		IV / P	55
1954	Montabaur	St. Peter in chains		III / P	39	Replaced in 2013 by a new Mühleisen organ.
1954	Luxembourg - Weimerskirch	St. Martin		III / P	40	Decommissioned in 2004 and replaced by a digital instrument
1954	Hamburg-Volksdorf	Church at the Rockenhof		III / P	30th	Replaced in 2002.
1955	Hamburg - Dulsberg	Good News Church		III / P	36	1975 and 1983 rebuilt and expanded by Paschen; Sold to Poland in 2015.
1955	Rumbach	Christ Church		II / P	12
1955	Heppenheim (Bergstrasse)	St. Peter		III / P	??	Replaced in 1997 by today's Wilbrand organ.
1955	Mainz-Mombach	St. Nicholas Church		II / P	18th
1955	Gütersloh- Spexard	St. Brother Conrad		II / P	10
1955	Unna - Hemmerde	Evangelical Church Hemmerde		II / P	14th
1955	Hamburg - Ottensen	Kreuzkirche		III / P	38	Replaced in 1993.
1955	Lübeck	St. Mary		III / P	38	Known as the dance of death organ; Replaced in 1985 by today's Führer organ
1957	Wiesbaden	St. Mark's Church		II / P	18th
1956	Berlin-Spandau	Nikolaikirche		III / P	44	Most important post-war organ in Berlin when it was completed, in 1970 reconstruction and redesign of the prospectus, given to the Peitz parish church in 1995 , since then several registers have been exchanged
1956	Dortmund	Pauluskirche		III / P	31	Replaced in 1994 by a new Rieger organ
1956	Niendorf (Timmendorfer Strand)	St. Petri		II / P	13
1956	Hamburg-Poppenbüttel	Market Church Poppenbüttel		III / P	36	Replaced in 2006 by a new Rohlf organ.
1957	Wiesbaden	"Main Church" (Biebrich)		II / P	23 (25)
1957	Luxembourg - Bonneweg	Mary Queen of Peace		V / P	77 (85)	Largest organ in Luxembourg
1957	Hamburg - Barmbek	St. Sophia		III / P	36	Replaced in 1990.
1958	Hamelin	St. Augustine		III / P	36
1959	Estebrugge	St. Martini		III / P	35	New building behind the historic prospectus by Arp Schnitger (1702)
1959	Hamburg-Hamm	Trinity Church		II / P		Rebuilt in 1983 by the Lötzerich company and expanded to 30 registers with three manuals and one pedal
~ 1958	Rough calves	Pilgrimage church Maria zum Raue Wind		II / P	21st	In 2012, a used two-organ was purchased, which was built in 1960 by the Ott company for the Bonn Palace Church. Since then, the Kemper organ has been used less often, but is still in the old part of the pilgrimage church.
~ 1959	Bürstadt	St. Peter		II / P	23
1960	Bürstadt	St. Michael		II / P	??	Replaced in 2005 by today's Eisenbarth organ.
1960	Mainz	Mainz Cathedral		VI / P	104 (113)	Multi-part organ system largely using the old four-manual organ from Klais (1928); Is currently being replaced by a new building.
1960	Lübeck	Johanneum				The organ was torn down in 2001, the console is in the Mecklenburg Organ Museum in Malchow.
1960	Marx , Russia	Church of Christ the King		II / P	23	originally in Johanniskirche Nassau , rebuilt in 1980 by Hugo Mayer, dismantled in 2016, inaugurated in Marx in 2018
1960/1968	Hamburg	Main church Sankt Jacobi		IV / P	68	The new building from 1960 (III / P / 45) was expanded by Kemper in 1968.
1961	Lauenburg / Elbe	Maria Magdalenen Church		III / P	32
1961	Bad Oldesloe	Peter and Paul Church		III / P	38	Replaced in 2006 by a new Mühleisen organ and sold to the Christkönig parish in Rzeszów (Poland).
1961/1966	Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg	St. Boniface		II / P	22nd
1961	Hamburg - Osdorf	Simeonskirche		II / P	22nd
1962	Cologne	Sacred Heart Church		III / P	35
1962	Glückstadt	City Church		III / P	30th	Sold to Pasvalys (Lithuania) in 2019.
1962	Jastrzębia Góra	Church of Ignatius Loyola		IV / P	74	originally built for the main church of St. Katharinen in Hamburg , dismantled in 2008 and sold to Poland
1962	Dortmund - Hörde	Luther Church		II / P	24
1963	Ingelheim am Rhein	Castle Church		II / P	30th	Behind the historical prospectus of the Stumm brothers (1755) → Organ of the castle church (Ingelheim)
1963	Koblenz	Rhein-Mosel-Halle		IV / P	71	in its time one of the largest secular organs in Germany
1963	Westerland	St. Nicolai		III / P	33
1963	Hamburg - Wandsbek	Kreuzkirche		III / P	34
1963	Hamburg-Altengamme	St. Nicolai		II / P	19th	In the historic case by Johann Dietrich Busch (1752)
1964	Vallendar	Philosophical-Theological College of the Pallottines		III / P	46
1964	Viernheim	St. Michael		II / P	23	2015 restoration and optical redesign by organ builder Hugo Mayer
1965	Luxembourg - Limpertsberg	St. Joseph		IV / P	55
1965	Kiel	Concert hall at Kiel Castle		III / P	59
1957-1965	Lübeck	Jakobikirche		IV / P	67	Extension of the great organ; Already in 1935 a restoration was carried out by Kemper according to plans by Distler and Erich Thienhaus → Organs of the Jakobikirche (Lübeck)
1965	Ingolstadt	St. Anton		III / P	36	Replaced in 2015 by a new building and sold to Bogatynia (Poland).
1965	Baiersdorf	St. Joseph		II / P	12
1965	Morsum (Sylt)	St. Martin		II / P	12
1966	Berlin - Wilmersdorf	Church on Hohenzollernplatz		IV / P	61	In 1966 only a partial extension was completed. The two manuals Schwellpositiv (IV) and Rückpositiv (I) were still completely vacant and received their pipes in 1975 from Kemper. In 1993, Sauer made a change in disposition.
1966	Hollern	St. Mauritius		II / P	27	Reconstruction of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1690) and Philipp Furtwängler (1858) → Organ from St. Mauritius (Hollern)
1967	Lübeck-Kücknitz	Trinity Church		II / P	19th
1965	Bönnigheim	Cyriacus Church		III / P	49	In the historical neo-Gothic case of the previous organ by Weigle (1897)
1968	Lübeck	Marienkirche		V / P	100	At that time one of the largest organs in the world with mechanical action → Great organ of the Marienkirche (Lübeck)
1968	Hamburg - Hinschenfelde	Emmaus Church		II / P	16
1969	Muenster	St. Aegidii		III / P	22nd	Fully mechanical; with coupling manual
1969	Weidenau (Siegen)	St. Joseph		III / P	40	1991 technical new building by Mebold using pipes from the Kemper organ.
1970	Lübeck-Moisling	Johann-Hinrich-Wichern Church		II / P	22nd	built at right angles
1970	Medelby	St. Matthew		II / P	13	Reusing the case, prospectus and some stops from the previous Marcussen organ in 1895
1971	Vallendar	St. Marcellinus and St. Petrus		III / P	39	Replaced in 1998 by the new Oberlinger organ.
1972	Dortmund	St. Boniface		III / P	26th	Fully electric
1972	Rheinbach	Pallotti Church		III / P	40	Left of the altar area. For sale.
1972	Lübeck	St. Mark's Church		II / P	17th
1978	Lübeck	St. Boniface		II / P	14th

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
• Uwe Pape : Organ workshops and organ builders in Germany from 1945 to 2004 . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2004.
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Johann Hennings and Wilhelm Stahl: Lübeck's music history. Volume II: Sacred Music. Bärenreiter, Kassel and Basel 1952.

• Uwe Pape : Kemper. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. pp. 277–279.
• Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1945. Volume II, 2. From Johann Preuss to E. Kemper & Sohn, Lübeck / Bartenstein. Siebenquart, Cologne 2015. pp. 612–644.

Web links

Commons : Kemper Orgeln  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kemper Orgelbau Organ index, individual organs with dispositions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . 1991, p. 221.
2. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony . 1995, pp. 13, 221.
3. ↑ described in detail in Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of Organ Building Art in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume II, 2. From Johann Preuße to E. Kemper & Sohn, Lübeck / Bartenstein. Siebenquart, Cologne 2015. pp. 612–642.
4. ↑ Emanuel Kemper in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . 1991, p. 222.
6. ↑ Lübeck's organs need to be renovated. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of July 26, 2014, Section 7.
7. ^ Organ in Lübeck, Johanneum (from 1960) already demolished in 2001, the one in Nassau, Johanniskirche (from 1960) and Hamburg, St. Katharinen (1962) dismantled and sold due to significant defects. In Hamburg, 496 of 1020 historic baroque pipes disappeared without a trace after they were rebuilt, Johann Sebastian-Bach's Hamburg organ dream by Matthias Gretzschel , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 5, 2013, fourth paragraph, also in A new organ from the baroque , in: Die Welt vom 5 . June 2013.
8. ↑ On the defects in Hamburg How Bach's organ got into a Polish seaside resort. In: Spiegel from May 11, 2008.
9. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony . 1995, pp. 61, 64, 278.
10. ↑ Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Ed.): The organ. To encyclopedia. Routledge, New York 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , p. 286 .
11. ↑ Uwe Pape: Kemper. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. p. 279.
12. ↑ Christ the King Church organ with disposition (Polish)
13. ↑ Organs of St. Mary's Church Organs in Danzig (German)
14. ↑ The Kemper Organ at www.peitz.de, accessed on January 22, 2017
15. ^ Homepage of the Holy Trinity Church , as seen on August 23, 2011.
16. ↑ An Organ for Marx An der Wolga, Blog, 2018
17. ↑ Духовой орган (organ) Congregation Christ the King in Marx (Russian)
18. ↑ VOX extra , No. 9, 2008: Recovery of the Kemper organ (PDF; 840 kB), viewed January 1, 2011.