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 |
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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
- ^ Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 63 .
- ^ The organ portrait (265): The Wilhelm organ in the Ev. Gutskapelle, Escheberg
- ^ Organ in Altenesch , accessed on April 12, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.nomine.net/belum-st-vitus
- ↑ https://kirchengemeindelexikon.de/einzelgemeinde/balje/
- ↑ organ in Altenesch on NOMINE eV , accessed on 12 April 2018th
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wilhelmy, Georg Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilhelmi, Georg Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1748 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißenbach in Lower Hesse |
DATE OF DEATH | March 1806 |
Place of death | Oldendorf |