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 |
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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
- ^ A b Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders. 1994, p. 386.
- ↑ Beatrix Darmstädter: Das Wiener Klavier until 1850. Schneider, Tutzing 2007, ISBN 978-3-7952-1243-8 , p. 121.
- ^ The piano maker Seuffert (private website), accessed on August 16, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seuffert, Franz Ignaz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1732 |
DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1810 |
Place of death | Wurzburg |