Franz Josef Swoboda

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Franz Josef Swoboda (born March 17, 1870 in Fünfhaus , today part of the municipality of Vienna ; † March 26, 1934 in Vienna) was an Austrian organ builder .

Life

Franz Josef Swoboda was the second child of a Viennese wine merchant and multiple homeowner as well as the brother of the prelate Heinrich Sowoboda. He was already building a two-manual harmonium at the age of eight and a salon organ at the age of eleven. At the behest of his father, he learned the building trade from December 30, 1884 to December 26, 1887 from the court architect Schmalzhofer. Two years later he gave up this profession and did an organ building apprenticeship with the organ builder Josef Mauracher in St. Florian until 1891 . He then went to Germany and worked for the organ building companies GF Steinmeyer & Co. in Öttingen and EF Walcker & Cie. in Ludwigsburg. In 1894 he set up his own workshop in Vienna and expanded it into a factory in 1897.

In 1903 he was appointed kuk court organ builder. In 1905 Pope Pius X honored him as papal court organ builder with the use of the coat of arms in the shield and a year later he received the St. Sylvester Order with the golden spur and the large papal medal. In 1910 he was appointed sworn appraiser and expert at the Vienna Commercial Court and one year later he was appointed Imperial Councilor .

Works (selection, chronological)

Organ of the Donaufelder parish church (1910)
The construction of the instrument with 33 registers (currently 34) on three manuals and pedal was carried out using the organ case by Gottfried Sonnholz from 1751. The playing and stop action mechanisms were pneumatic. From 1939 to 1948 the organ was rebuilt by Johann M. Kauffmann (new console, cone store, electro-pneumatic action, change of disposition).
A three-part organ with tracery adorned gables.
An organ donated by the construction company H. Rella & Kie., Messrs HB Ravagni, A. Cavagna and Rudolf Nemetschke with 24 registers, including 11 fully occupied voices with 648 pipes, 8 couplings and 5 collective buttons, each with 2 manuals with 4 ½ Octaves range and a pedal with 2 ¼ octaves range are / were, and pneumatic mechanics.
Only the case of the original organ is preserved.
It is the largest Swoboda organ that can still be played in its original condition. The organ with 28 registers, divided into two manuals and pedal, consists of a total of 1,940 pipes. The smallest measures 10 cm and the largest 5.5 m. The organ has been preserved in its original condition.
Transferred to Pischelsdorf (municipality of Götzendorf) in 1962
The organ donated by Emperor Franz Joseph I had 45 registers, with the baroque case and the front pipes being taken over from the original organ unchanged. After several renovations, the organ was rebuilt in the old case in 2003 by the Swiss organ construction company Mathis .
After being commissioned in 1911, he built a completely new organ with a romantic disposition and a pneumatic action in the room behind the prospectus. The case of the old Johann Hencke organ with the prospect pipes from the 18th century was placed on the wall without any function. In the 1980s, the Swoboda organ was dismantled and a new one was built by the organ building company Gerhard Hradetzky , with a reconstruction that was close to the original of the Hencke organ, with partial use of original parts.

Web links

Commons : Franz Josef Swoboda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau ; No. 16, 54th year; Leipzig, May 15, 1934
  2. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon: St. Peter (Vienna) ; Retrieved May 3, 2015
  3. ^ The free organ database: Vienna, Peterskirche ; Retrieved May 3, 2015
  4. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Lower Austria south of the Danube, part 1, M to Z. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85028-364-X . Page 295.
  5. ↑ Dont, Jakob: The Vienna pension home, a commemorative publication for the opening ; Publishing house of the municipality of Vienna, 1904 ( online )
  6. ↑ Martina Griesser-Stermscheg: The church furnishings of the Donaufelder Church under the sign of Viennese secessionism ; Böhlau-Verlag, 2009, Vienna, ISBN 978320578155-4
  7. ^ Donaufeld parish: detailed description of the organ ; Retrieved May 3, 2015
  8. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Topographical inventory of monuments. Lower Austria south of the Danube, part 2, M to Z. Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85028-365-8 . Page 1684.
  9. ^ Orgelverein.at: Festschrift by Gottfried Allmer, September 2002 ; Retrieved May 3, 2015
  10. ^ Church choir Baden: The Hencke organ ; accessed on May 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Swoboda, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Fünfhaus , Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1934
Place of death Vienna