Franz Ignaz Seuffert

Franz Ignaz Seuffert (born November 9, 1732 , † November 17, 1810 in Würzburg ) was a German organ builder.

life and work

Franz Ignaz Seuffert was Johann Philipp Seuffert's youngest son and learned organ building from him. After years of wandering in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland, Seuffert took over his father's business in Würzburg in 1768. There he was appointed court organ builder. 17 new organs by Seuffert have been identified, mainly in the Lower Franconian area. For economic reasons, however, he also dealt with the construction of other stringed keyboard instruments and acquired a good reputation in this area: “In addition to building organs, he made many very good clavichords and other keyboard instruments, and with every work his excellent knowledge of this business [ ...] proven in his circle. "

In the last years of his life he wrote his father's biography, which is now owned by the University of Würzburg. An example of his organ building art still exists today in the Nikolaikirche in Obervolkach in the Kitzingen district . The organ in the Lutheran church in Possenheim may also go back to the middle Seuffert.

Franz Ignaz Seuffert's older son Johann Philipp Albert Seuffert (1763–1834) continued the office of Würzburg court organ builder until 1834. An organ from him has been preserved in the St. Nikolaus branch church in Neuses am Berg in the Kitzingen district. After his death, the Seuffert family's Würzburg workshop was temporarily orphaned until Balthasar Schlimbach took it over in 1836.

Franz Ignaz Seuffert's younger son Franz Martin Seuffert (1772–1847) went to Vienna as a piano maker in 1804 and opened a piano factory there, from which in 1855 the Friedrich Ehrbar piano factory emerged .

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
before 1760	Kirchveischede	St. Servatius		I / P	11?	Attribution, rebuilt several times
around 1760	Liesen	Old parish church of St. Thomas		I / p	8th	or by Johann Philipp Seuffert; 1811 New building in Liesen, including parts of the Seuffert organ
1767	Wurzburg	Franciscan Church		II / P	26th	not received
1768	Bruchsal	St. Peter		II / P	20th	Prospectus with tin pipes received
1768	Oberscheinfeld	St. Gallus		I / P	11	receive
1769	Hemmersheim	St. Kilian		I / P	11	receive
1772	Koenigheim	St. Martin				Prospectus received
1774	Obervolkach	St. Nicholas		I / P		Attribution; receive
1775	Grafenrheinfeld	Finding the Cross		II / P	23	replaced
1776	Bad Neuhaus	Castle Church		I / P	10	Attribution; completely preserved
1778	Kirchheim	St. Michael		I / P	13	Prospectus received
around 1782	Heiligenstein (Römerberg)	St. Sigismund		I / P	14th	largely preserved
1784	Possenheim	Protestant church		I / P	12	Prospectus received
1787	Alsleben	St. Kilian		I / P	14th	largely preserved

literature

• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 386 .
• Hermann Fischer: The organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert and his descendants in Würzburg, Kirrweiler and Vienna . Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-87717-077-9 , p. 65-73 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Ignaz Seuffert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Fischer: Seuffert organ builder . In: German biography . Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 278-279.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders. 1994, p. 386.
2. ↑ Beatrix Darmstädter: Das Wiener Klavier until 1850. Schneider, Tutzing 2007, ISBN 978-3-7952-1243-8 , p. 121.
3. ^ The piano maker Seuffert (private website), accessed on August 16, 2014.