Friends (family)

The Freundt family (also Frynd or Freund ) was a German organ building family in Passau in the 17th and 18th centuries .

Johann Michael Freundt, depicted in 1716 by Josef Andrä Eisl in the parish church of Faistenau

To her belonged:

Johann Georg Freundt (* around 1590 in Passau, † 1667 in Passau);

his sons:

Johann Freundt (* before 1615 in Passau; † December 3, 1678 in Passau) and
Leopold Freundt , wrongly also Leonhard (* around 1640 in Passau, † 1727 in Passau)
Augustin Freundt (* unknown, † unknown)

Georg Freundt (* unknown; † unknown), degree of relationship unknown

Johann Michael Freundt (* unknown; † unknown), kinship unknown, 1705–1712 vicar in St. Georgen im Pinzgau (locality in Bruck ), 1714–1722 vicar in Faistenau (where he founded the Rosary Brotherhood on October 7, 1714 ), initiated the reconstruction of the organ in Kirchental in 1742 and is referred to as a clergyman from Schwertberg .

Johann M. Freundt 1705-1712

history

The workshop was founded by Johann Georg Freundt, and his activities were supported by the Passau prince-bishops from the House of Habsburg. Johann Georg was closely associated with the Butz organ building family, which was also active in Passau . In 1667 his son (maybe his brother) Johann took over the workshop. Leopold followed him. His workshop was in the Milchgasse. The brothers Georg and Ignaz Egedacher continued the workshop after his death. Augustin Freundt worked in Ingolstadt from 1657 .

In addition to the Putz family, the Freundt family belongs to the first Passau organ building school. This is stylistically influenced by the German late Gothic wind organ and the organ construction of northern Italy required by the Caeremoniale episcoporum , which is later merged with the southern German baroque tradition. Georg Muffat refers in the apparatus musico-organisticus to the sound of Freundt organs.

The organ builder Georg Freundt, who is proven in Rothenburg or Rottenburg from 1690, is presumably related to the Passau family.

List of works

Johann Georg Freundt

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1620	Ardagger	Ardagger Abbey	II	16	In 1770 the positive and pedal register were added, restored by Pirchner in 1977 .
1636/42	Klosterneuburg	Collegiate church	III	35	Lt. BDA largest and most important monument organ of the 17th century in Central Europe
1662	Baumgartenberg	Collegiate church	II	17th	Approx. 1696 extended by the positive. 1780 new gaming table by Franz Lorenz Richter.
1641	Passau-Ilzstadt				Repair for 3 fl.

Johann Freundt

year	place	building	Remarks
1648	Neuburg Monastery	Choir organ
1655 Passau-Ilzstadt			New building for 300 fl
1668	Lambach Abbey	positive	It has not yet been clarified whether it was an independent work or whether Freundt added the Rückpositiv that still exists today to the great Egedacher I organ.

Leopold Freundt

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1660	Geiersberg
1685/88	Passau	Dom	II	21st	Georg Muffat organ drafts for III / 40, III / 28; Price 2,300 florins
1688	Seitenstetten	Seitenstetten Abbey	II	19th
1682	Kremsmünster	Benedictine monastery			Originally built in 1682 by Leopold Freundt as a monastery organ with 20 registers. 1855 sold to the chaplain church in Kirchberg. Ludwig Mooser was commissioned for the adaptation at the new installation site , who among other things made a new case in the style of the Salzburg cathedral organ .
1701	Hohenfurth	Cistercian pen
1705	Free City	City parish church Freistadt			Only the prospectus still exists, although this was additionally decorated in the late baroque.
1715	Brunnenthal near Schärding	Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
??	Viechtwang
??	Linz	Ursuline Church

Augustin Freundt

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1657	Wolnzach					positive

Georg Freundt

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1690	Schonthal	Monastery church				new trumpet register

literature

Rudolf Quoika : Friends . In: Music in the past and present . tape 4 , p. 931 ff .

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Freundt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Leopold Freundt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Johann Michael Freundt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ see on Leopold Freundt the article in the Neue Deutsche Biographie: Rudolf Quoika: Freund, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 412 f. ( Digitized version ).
^ [1] List of vicars from St. Georgen im Pinzgau.
↑ [2] List of Vicars from Faistenau.
^ Roman Matthias Schmeißner: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , dissertation University Mozartem Salzburg 2012, p. 133.

↑ Kremsmünster Abbey : The historically valuable organ ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved Oct. 26, 2017 @1@ 2

[1] see on Leopold Freundt the article in the Neue Deutsche Biographie: Rudolf Quoika: Freund, Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 412 f. ( Digitized version ).

[2] [1] List of vicars from St. Georgen im Pinzgau.

[3] [2] List of Vicars from Faistenau.

[4] Roman Matthias Schmeißner: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , dissertation University Mozartem Salzburg 2012, p. 133.

[5] Kremsmünster Abbey : The historically valuable organ ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved Oct. 26, 2017 @1@ 2