Georg Christoffer Rackwitz

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Georg Christoffer Rackwitz (born February 2, 1760 in Upper Hungary , † July 12, 1844 in Stockholm , Kingdom of Sweden ) was an instrument maker in Stockholm.

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He came from Pressburg in what was then Upper Hungary (now Bratislava in Slovakia). His nationality is uncertain (Slovak or German?). In 1782 Rackwitz came to St. Petersburg and worked for the organ and instrument maker Franz Kirsnick . In 1783 he was the first to build a register with resounding reeds in a small organ . Georg Rackwitz went to Warsaw in 1790 to build such a register into an instrument for the instrument maker Georg Joseph Vogler . He then traveled with this to Rotterdam , where he installed one, then also in Frankfurt am Main in a Carmelite monastery.

In 1791 he drove on to Stockholm via Copenhagen . There he worked for the organ builder Mathias Petter Kraft . In 1794 and 1795 he helped Olof Schwan to build an organ in Stockholm. In 1796 Georg Christoffer Rackwitz was granted the privilege to work independently as an instrument maker in Stockholm. He built clavichords and hammer pianos , as well as so-called organochordions . Some of his instruments have been preserved.

In 1728 he gave the workshop to his son-in-law. Georg Christoffer Rackwitz died in 1844 and was buried in the cemetery of the German Church in Stockholm .

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  1. ↑ Christian Friedrich Gottlob Wilke: About the invention of the pipe works with penetrating tongues . In: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung of March 5, 1823 (No. 10), pp. 149–155, here pp. 152–154 with further details according to Rackwitz's own information
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SURNAME Rackwitz, Georg Christoffer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rackwitz, George Christoffer; Rackwitz, GC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Instrument maker in Stockholm
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1844
Place of death Stockholm , Kingdom of Sweden