Ferdinand Lange (instrument maker)

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Ferdinand Lange († after 1859 ) was a German organ and instrument builder in Berlin .

Live and act

Case of the Lange organ in Stolpe (2017)

Ferdinand Lange was initially a carpenter. After that he was conditioniert for 12 years with the most excellent organ builders in Germany , so with Grüneberg in Stettin and around 1832-1834 with Buchholz in Berlin , as an inscription in the organ of the Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder) reports.

After that, Lange went freelance as an organ builder and instrument maker in Berlin. In 1839 he applied for orders to the Prussian government in Potsdam, which in 1843 appointed him an academic artist . Ferdinand Lange built and sold acoustic and physical apparatus , such as table apparatus with various organ pipes and bellows, individual organ pipes, monochords, but also sirens, sound discs and American violins . In 1845 his workshop was at Auguststrasse 57 in Berlin-Mitte, in 1847 at Dorotheenstrasse 38 and at another time at Luisenplatz 12 (today Robert-Koch-Platz).

From 1858 to 1859 he built the only known organ for the church in Stolpe near Berlin. This has 8 registers with a manual and a pedal and is almost unchanged. The prospect pipes were supplied by Carl August Buchholz's workshop.

Ferdinand Lange's further life is unknown.

literature

  • Ferdinand Lange. In: Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 329f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urania. The musical magazine ... Second year. 1845. p. 12f., Extensive own advertisement
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ and instrument builder in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1859