Flentrop Orgelbouw
Flentrop Orgelbau is a Dutch organ building company based in Zaandam . The metal and wood processing workshops are located in Koog aan de Zaan . The company has built more than 400 organs and exported numerous instruments since it was founded in 1903. In addition to building new organs, the company is also active in the field of restoration. In 2013 the reconstruction of the organ of the Hamburg main church Sankt Katharinen was completed.
history
Hendrik Wicher Flentrop (1866–1950) founded the company in 1903. Flentrop was an organist in Zaandam and founded a piano and organ company. He was a pioneer in historically oriented organ building. His aim was to restore organs to their original state instead of adapting them to contemporary tastes. From 1922 he was in contact with Albert Schweitzer . Father and son Flentrop were influenced by the movement of the organ and favored the mechanical action and the sliding chest .
In 1940 the son Dirk Andries Flentrop , who had learned organ building from Frobenius Orgelbyggeri , took over the management. Important organs were restored under his direction, such as the two organs of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar , the Schnitger organ of the Sint-Michaëlskerk in Zwolle and the historic organ of the cathedral in Mexico City .
JA Steketee managed the company from 1976 to 1998 and increasingly received international orders, such as the largest organ in the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago with over 71 stops on four manuals . His successor was Cees van Oostenbrugge. When he died in 2008, Frits Elshout took over the management of the company.
List of works (selection)
year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1939 | Alkmaar | Laurenskerk , small organ | II / P | Restoration of the organ by Johann von Koblenz (1511), Claes Willemszoon (1545) and Johannes Duyschot (1685) | ||
1953-1955 | Zwolle | Sint-Michaëlskerk | IV / P | 63 | Restoration of the Schnitger organ (1721) | |
1959 | Landskrona | Sofia Albertina kyrka | IV / P | 53 | New building | |
1961 | Malmo | Saint Andreas Kyrka | III / P | 41 | New building | |
1960 | Hamburg-Bahrenfeld | Paul Gerhardt Church | II / P | 24 | New building | |
1964 | Lisbon | Catedral Sé Patriarcal | IV / P | 51 | New building | |
1965 | Wolfsburg | Holy Spirit Church and Community Center | II / P | 20th | New building | |
1965 | Berlin-Schöneberg | Paul Gerhardt Church | III / P | 36 | New building | |
1965 | Seattle | Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral | IV / P | 58 | New building | |
1967 | Osnabrück | St. Mary | IV / P | 47 | New building | |
1968 | Vlissingen | Sint Jacobskerk | III / P | 35 | New building | |
1968 | Rotterdam | Concert hall De Doelen | V / P | 70 | New building | |
1969 | Breda | Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk | IV / P | 53 | New building behind a historical prospectus and incorporating old registers | |
1971 | Hamburg-Wohldorf-Ohlstedt | Matthias Claudius Church | II / P | 15th | New building | |
1974 | Linz | Bruckner House | III / P | 51 | New building | |
1974 | Oberlin (Ohio) | Oberlin College , Warner Concert Hall | III / P | 44 | Construction of a new concert organ | |
1975 | Schiedam | Janskerk | III / P | 39 | New building behind the historic prospect by Hendrik Niehoff (before 1553) | |
1976 | Durham, North Carolina | Duke Chapel | IV / P | 65 | New building | |
1977 | Mexico city | Cathedral, gospel organ | IV / P | 55 | Restoration of the organ by J. de Sesma and T. Sans (1696) and Joseph Nasarre (1734) | |
1980 | Tokyo | Seitoku College Matsudo | III / P | 56 | New construction of a concert organ in the classical style in a school complex | |
1983-1984 | 's-Hertogenbosch | St. John's Cathedral | III / P | 48 | extensive reconstruction of the organ by Florentius Hocque (1618–1634) and Antonius Friedrich Gottlieb Heyneman (1787) | |
1982-1986 | Alkmaar | Laurenskerk , great organ | III / P | 56 | Restoration of the organ by Galtus, Germer and Jacobus van Hagerbeer (1646) | |
1987 | Taipei | Chung Cheng Memorial Hall | III / P | 59 | Construction of a new concert organ | |
1988 | Chicago | Holy Name Cathedral | IV / P | 71 | New building | |
1989 | Emlichheim | Ev.-old ref. church | II / P | 19th | New building | |
1990 | Dunblane | Dunblane Cathedral | III / P | 41 | New building | |
1990-1993 | Amsterdam | Concertgebouw | IV / P | 60 | Restoration of the organ by Michael Maarschalkerweerd (1890) | |
1993 | Essen - Rellinghausen | St. Lambertus | III / P | 35 | New building | |
1997 | Kazan | National Conservatory, concert hall | IV / P | 59 | Construction of a new concert organ | |
2005 | Amsterdam | Westerkerk | III / P | 41 | Restoration of the organ by Duyschot (1686) and Christian Vater (1721) | |
2009-2013 | Hamburg old town | Main Church of Saint Catherine | IV / P | 61 | extensive reconstruction of the state of 1720 | |
2015-2018 | Olkusz | Parish Church of St. Andrew | II / P | 31 | Restoration of the organ by Hans Hummel and Georg Nitrowski , restoration of the condition from 1611–1631 | |
2016-2019 | Corvey | St. Stephen and Vitus | II / P | 32 | extensive restoration of the baroque organ |
literature
- Jan Jongepier : 75 years Flentrop Orgelbouw . Flentrop Orgelbouw, Zaandam 1978.
- Wenzel Hübner: 21,000 organs from all over the world. 1945–1985 (= sources and studies on music history from antiquity to the present; 7 ). P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-8204-9454-9 .
Web links
- Homepage (with list of works)
- The organist Michael Kleinschmidt gives an introduction to the Flentrop organ at Saint Mark's Cathedral
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Flentrop - history of the company , accessed on December 28, 2013.
- ↑ small organ in Alkmaar , accessed on December 28, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Landskrona , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Malmö , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Breda , accessed on December 29, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Oberlin , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Schiedam , accessed on December 28, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Tokyo , accessed December 31, 2013.
- ↑ large organ in Alkmaar ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 28, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Taipei , accessed December 31, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Emlichheim , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Organ in Dunblane ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 28, 2013.
- ^ Organ of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam , accessed on December 28, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Essen-Rellinghausen , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ^ Organ in Kazan , accessed on December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Olkusz (Bazylika św. Andrzeja - organy w nawie głównej). Retrieved August 16, 2019 .
- ↑ organ Atlas OWL , accessed on 17 January 2016th