Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (organ builder)

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Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (born May 20, 1779 in Bückeburg , † July 14, 1868 in Hanover ) was a German organ builder in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Life

After his apprenticeship (before 1801) with Hinrich Just Müller in Wittmund and with the court organ builder Wilhelm Heinrich Bethmann in Hanover, years of traveling followed, which led him to Johann Wolfgang Witzmann in Bremen, to Keller in Magdeburg and to Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg in Brandenburg. For the year 1801/02, during his time at Baethmann, there is evidence of his work on the new organ in Dannenberg . He settled in Hanover in 1806 and opened his own master workshop there in 1810. He married Christiane Jochums. One day after the death of court organ builder Christian Bethmann in 1833, Meyer applied for this post. In 1834 he was appointed court organ builder. Despite his best efforts, Meyer could not gain a foothold in the area of ​​the Lower Elbe; a repair is only documented for Buxtehude . While he was initially entrusted with repair work in the west of Hanover, his field of activity in the Kingdom of Hanover expanded quickly due to its good reputation and he even delivered an organ to Vyborg , which was then part of Finland. Meyer soon took on expert tasks in the consistory. Until 1833 Bethmann, the son of his teacher, was his biggest competitor, later Philipp Furtwängler . His sons Eduard Meyer and (Carl) Wilhelm Meyer (1808–1882) joined the workshop. In 1838 Ernst Wilhelm handed over the management to the two, but worked for the company for at least a few years. The workshop enjoyed an excellent reputation; She built over 100 organs until it went out two years after the founder's death in 1870.

List of works

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.

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1818 Lenthe Church of the 10,000 Knights Lenthe Church to the 10000 Knights 9.jpg I / P 8th Housing and sub-bass 16 'received
1822 Grasdorf (Laatzen) St. Mary's Church not received
1826 Osterwald (Garbsen) Ev.-luth. church I / P 10 around 1865 re-arrangement by Folkert Becker, 1990/91 repair by Martin Haspelmath
1830/1831 Stolzenau St. Jacobi
Stolzenau St. Jacobi organ (01) .jpg
 New building including parts of the previous organ; Prospectus received
1831 Schönhagen (Uslar) Martin Luther Church I / P 13 Almost unchanged except for the prospectus pipes
1834 Celle City Church of St. Mary
Organ City Church Celle 02.JPG
 III / P 49 New construction of the windchest
1838 Hanover Castle Church
1839 Estorf (Weser) Ev.-luth. church Organ Estorf.jpg I / P 11 2005 restoration by Jörg Bente ; preserved almost unchanged
1839 Hilligsfeld Ev.-luth. Martini Church II / P 14th 1991 restoration by Gebr. Hillebrand and extension by an 8 'trumpet on a loop by Meyers; receive
1839 Vyborg Swedish-German parish church II / P 21st Sold to Ylitornio in 1895 and taken out of service there in the 1920s
around 1840 Oiste Church at Oiste I / P 8th In the 1960s (?) New building by Hans Wolf (today I / P / 12); 4 stops (in full or in part), including the prospect pipes, received from Meyer
1841 Hamburg-Harburg Trinity Church
1842 Bergen on the stupid Pauluskirche II / P 16 Planning by EW Meyer from 1837; Set up by the two sons; largely preserved
1845 Wettbergen St. John the Baptist I / P 10 Reconstruction in 1937 by P. Furtwängler & Hammer , 1980 general overhaul by Emil Hammer organ building , 1999 repair by Bente organ building; Hauptwerk drawer and a few registers preserved

literature

  • Wilhelm Meyer, court organ builder in Hanover. In: General musical newspaper . Born in 38, Breitkopf u. Härtel, Leipzig 1838, p. 389 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Uwe Pape : The organs of the city of Celle . Pape, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-921140-55-2 , pp. 11, 227 (publication by the Society of Organ Friends, Vol. 178).
  • Axel Fischer: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Meyer organ . Ed .: Church council of the Ev.-Luth. Paulus Parish of Bergen. Köhring, Lüchow 1992.
  • Michael Christian Müller: Organ Monument Maintenance. Basics and methods using the example of the Nienburg / Weser district . Niemeyer, Hameln 2003, ISBN 3-8271-8029-5 .
  • Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
  • Gottfried Piper: The bells and organs of the church district Ronnenberg . Ed .: District cantorate of the Ronnenberg parish. Self-published, Ronnenberg 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fischer: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Meyer organ. 1992, p. 25.
  2. ^ Pape: The organs of the city of Celle. 2000, p. 227.
  3. ↑ Müller: Organ Monument Maintenance. 2003, p. 59.
  4. ↑ a b Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 300.
  5. ^ Peter Golon: Historical organs in the district of Stade . Schaumburg, Stade 1983, ISBN 3-87697-009-1 , p. 48 .
  6. ↑ Müller: Organ Monument Maintenance. 2003, p. 60.
  7. ^ Fischer: Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the Meyer organ. 1992, p. 26.
  8. ^ Church in Grasdorf , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  9. ^ Organ in Schönhagen , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  10. ↑ bente-orgelbau.de: Organ in Estorf , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  11. ↑ bente-orgelbau.de: Organ in Oiste , accessed on January 14, 2018.
  12. ↑ NOMINE eV: Organ in Bergen , accessed on 14 January 2018th
  13. ^ Organ in Wettbergen , accessed on January 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1868
Place of death Hanover