Franz Xaver Christoph

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Franz Xaver Christoph (baptized December 1, 1733 in Vienna ; † April 18, 1793 in Windmühle , today in Vienna) was an Austrian organ builder . He is considered the last of the more important Viennese organ builders of the eighteenth century.

A work from the year 1786 by Franz Xaver Christoph: Organ with 20 registers, divided into two manuals and pedal, in the Minoritenkirche in Vienna . The neo-Gothic case was made by the imperial court architect Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg .
Organ of the Sonntagberg basilica , built 1774–1776.

Christoph took the oath of citizenship in Vienna in 1776, in the same year one of his main works, the 25- part baroque organ of the pilgrimage church in Sonntagberg near Ybbs , on which he had been building for two years, was completed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Geschichtsblätter, Volume 62, issues 1–4, page 58f, Association for the History of the City of Vienna, 2007 online at Google Books .
  2. ^ Oskar Eberstaller: Organs and Organ Builders in Austria. H. Böhlaus Nachf. , Graz 1955, p. 83 ( Viennese musicological contributions , vol. 1; online at Google books ).
  3. Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850, Schneider 2007, p. 164 ( report of the symposium "Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850", organized by the collection of old musical instruments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna from October 16 to 18, 2003 online at Google Books ).

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