Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy

Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (also Wilhelmi ) (* 1748 in Weißenbach in Northern Hesse ; † March 1806 in Oldendorf ) was a German organ builder who initially worked in Northern Hesse and then from 1781 to 1806 in Stade .

Life

Georg Wilhelm Wilhelm, as he was initially called, was born as the son of the miller Georg Wilhelm in 1748 in Weißenbach. With his half-brother Georg Peter Wilhelm (1733–1806), who was 15 years older than him and who was appointed court organ builder in Kassel in 1771 , he learned the trade of organ building for five years. When his brother moved to Kassel in 1766, he took over his workshop in Weißenbach. Since the equality of his second name and family name bothered him, he added an "i", later a "y" to his last name.

On the occasion of a repair of the organ at St. Cosmae et Damiani in Stade , he and his family moved there in 1781, became an admirer of the baroque organ builder Arp Schnitger from Schmalenfleth near Brake and subsequently shaped the organ landscape between the Elbe and Weser rivers . There he mainly devoted himself to the care and maintenance of the instruments of his great role model. He was soon one of the most sought-after organ makers in the duchies of Bremen and Oldenburg .

Wilhelmy created his new buildings exclusively in Schnitger's style. Today he is considered the link between baroque and classicism , as he still built his organs in the late 18th and early 19th centuries exclusively in the style of the north German organ baroque. Most of his instruments fell victim to the flames or the “zeitgeist”. The probably last surviving organ from Wilhelmy is in the St. Gallus Church in Altenesch -Süderbrook.

When Wilhelmy died during the renovation work on the organ in Oldendorf in March 1806, his son Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy took over his father's workshop.

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1775	Stone churches	St. Martin		II / P	28	Repair and minor reconstruction of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1685–1687); one register replaced by Wilhelmy, which is still preserved
1776-1778	Oberndorf (Oste)	St. George's Church				Modification; not received
1777/1803	Mittelkirchen	St. Bartholomew		II / P	32	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1688) and small changes in the layout
1779-1780	Visselhövede	St. John's Church				Housing received
1782	Stade	St. Cosmae et Damiani		III / P	42	Small change in the arrangement of the organ by Berendt Hus and Arp Schnitger (1668–1675 / 88), which has not survived, but most of the organ by Hus / Schnitger → organ by St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade)
1778/1783	Grünendeich	St. Mary		II / p	17th	Repair and reconstruction of the organ by Dietrich Christoph Gloger (1766)
1783-1786	Belum	St. Vitus		II / p	11	Rowan West's new building (2001) behind the preserved prospectus
1786	Loxstedt	St. Mary's Church		II / P	23	Further construction of the organ by Johann Matthias Schreiber (1767–71), most of which has been preserved
1786	Balje	St. Mary				Burned
1786	Beverstedt	Fabian and Sebastian		II / p	18th	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1709), of which only remnants have survived
1786	Stade	St. Wilhadi		III / P	40	Repair of the organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt (1735)
1788	Grasberg	Grasberg Church		II / P	21st	Construction of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1693–1694) from the Hamburg orphanage; Change of disposition in the pedal → Organ of the Grasberg Church
1788	Ringstedt	St. Fabian		I / P	13	New building, of which 9 registers have been preserved; extended by Johann Hinrich Röver (II / P / 18); New building by Alfred Führer using the old registers
1789	Jork	St. Matthias		III / P	34 (?)	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1679/1709); Replaced later except for case and brochure
1791-1792	Kirchditmold	Kirchditmold Church		II / P	18th	New building; Housing received
1792	Bülkau	St. John the Baptist		II / P	22 (?)	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1679), of which only the prospectus remains
1793-1794	Berne	St. Aegidius		II / P	26th	Reconstruction of the organ by Hermann Kröger (1642)
1794-1795	Achim	St. Laurence		II / P	24	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1699); Replaced by a new building in 1888
1794-1795	Bützfleth	St. Nicolai		II / P	22nd	Reconstruction of the organ by Johann Werner Klapmeyer (1703–1705); Pipework not preserved
1794-1795	Altenesch	St. Gallus Church		II / P	17th	Later rebuilt several times (today II / P / 18); 12–13 registers from Wilhelmy original, restoration 2007–2008 by Winold van der Putten ; The sub-bass 16 'from 1861 (probably by Johann Claussen Schmid ) was retained .
1795-1796	Schneverdingen	Peter and Paul Church				Housing received
1796-1798	Ludingworth	St. Jacobi Church		III / P	35	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1682–1683), which has largely been preserved → Organ of St. Jacobi Church (Lüdingworth)
1796-1798	Singing	St. Lamberti				Housing received
1800-1801	Cappel	St. Peter and Paul				Burned in 1810; 1816 Organ from Arp Schnitger from Hamburg transferred from Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy to Cappel → Organ from St. Peter and Paul (Cappel)
1801	Oederquart	St. John		III / P	28	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1682) and Johann Daniel Busch (1781); Pipe interior replaced later
1801	Himmelpforten	St. Mary		II / P	25th	Repair of the organ by Hans Scherer the Elder (1587–1590)
1806	Oldendorf (district of Stade)	St. Martin		II / P	15th	Reconstruction of the organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt / Dietrich Christoph Gloger (1730–1733)

In addition, Wilhelmy took over the maintenance of the organs in Hamburg-Hamm in 1776 and the maintenance of the organ in Osten (Oste) in 1779 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 63 .
2. ^ The organ portrait (265): The Wilhelm organ in the Ev. Gutskapelle, Escheberg
3. ^ Organ in Altenesch , accessed on April 12, 2018.
4. ↑ http://www.nomine.net/belum-st-vitus
5. ↑ https://kirchengemeindelexikon.de/einzelgemeinde/balje/
6. ↑ organ in Altenesch on NOMINE eV , accessed on 12 April 2018th