Friedrich Drese

Friedrich Drese (born December 22, 1960 in Deutzen , Saxony ) is a German organ builder and organist.

Life

Friedrich Drese learned the profession of organ builder in Dresden . After several years of professional practice, he studied at the Dresden University of Church Music . From 1990 to 1997 he was a church musician in Röbel / Müritz . Since 1997 he has headed the Malchow Organ Museum . The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg appointed him organ expert in 2009; Since the merger in 2012 to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany , he has been responsible for the Mecklenburg Church District. His constant work includes the inventory of all organs in Mecklenburg . In 2012 he identified the positive organ in the village church of Ruchow as a work by Joachim Richborn . He planned and supervised the restoration of the organ. It was set up in 1796 by the organ builder Heinrich Schmidt, a son of the organ builder Paul Schmidt in the Dobbertin monastery . Drese received the Heinrich Schliemann Medal in 2005 .

Publications

• The development of the organ. Organ building in Mecklenburg. Museum catalog, Malchow 2007.
• Arp Schnitger and his students in Mecklenburg. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition. Malchow 2009.
• The organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller and his work in Mecklenburg. Malchow 2010.
• 50 years of Mecklenburg organ building in Plau . Malchow 2016.

Web links

• Literature about Friedrich Drese in the state bibliography MV
• Certificate of Dreses on the organs Garwitz, Klinken and Raduhn (2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Drese (Malchow Organ Museum)
2. ↑ Friedrich Drese (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany)
3. ↑ Ruchow through organs internationally. (SVZ)