Gerald Woehl

Gerald Woehl (* 1940 ) is a German organ builder and restorer of musical instruments.

Life

Gerald Woehl - son of the composer Waldemar Woehl - comes from the third generation of a family of musicians. He grew up near Wasserburg am Inn and learned organ building with Wagner & Vier (1956–1959) and until 1964 with Haerpfner & Erman in Boulay-Moselle . There Woehl got to know French organ building from Walter Haerpfer , the artistic director of the Manufacture de Grand-Orgues de la Lorraine . This was followed by the master's examination (1964–1966). He studied the construction of symphonic organs with Georges Lhôte , a freelance organ builder. His teacher for drawing, painting and sculpture was Günter Späth . In addition to new organs, Woehl restored numerous historical organs.

Woehl has lived in Marburg an der Lahn since 1966 , where he has been running an organ building workshop ever since. In 1985 the company moved from Ziegelstrasse to the listed Schwanhof area. In addition, he founded a restoration workshop for historical keyboard instruments in 1982 with the restorer, harpsichord and piano maker Monika May . Since 2003 Woehl has also had a studio in the Sanssouci garden in Potsdam .

membership

• Association of Restorers eV (VDR)

List of works (selection)

By 1990 the list of works comprised 69 new buildings and 46 restorations.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1972	Bottendorf	Ev. church		II / P	15th
1976	Marburg	Church of Saint John Evangelist		IV / P	38
1984	Viersen	St. Remigius		IV / P	53	→ organ
1986	Munster - Hiltrup	Christ Church		II / P	18th	→ organ
1987	Banz Monastery	St. Dionysius and St. Peter		II / P	35	reconstruction
1988	Mannheim- Neckarstadt-West	Sacred Heart Church		IV / P	36	Woehl's first organ in the French-Romantic style; 2013 extended by two pedal registers
1984-1989	Friedrichshafen	St. Nicholas		III / P	47	→ organ
1990	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Church of the Redeemer (Bach organ)		II / P	31	After a disposition by Johann Sebastian Bach (in the gallery parapet)
1993	Cuxhaven	St. Petri		III / P	49
1994	Prien am Chiemsee	Assumption Day		III / P	50	Prospectus parts by Johann Christoph Egedacher (1738), Rückpositiv new
1997	Friedrichshafen	St. Petrus Canisius		III / P	57	→ organ
1999	Hildesheim	St. Michael		III / P	69
1999	Sendenhorst	St. Martin		III / P	46	in the French-romantic style
2000	Leipzig	Thomaskirche (Bach organ)		IV / P	61	→ Organ of the Thomaskirche (Leipzig)
2002	Linz	City parish church		III / P	50	→ organ
2003	Munich	Sacred Heart Church		III / P	61
2004	Potsdam-Sanssouci	Friedenskirche		III / P	48	→ organ
2006	Oppenheim	Katharinenkirche		III / P	52	Adoption of 17 stops from the previous organ by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1871) → Organ
2008	Kiel	Bach Hall in the Musicological Institute		II / P	33
1997-2009	Flensburg	Nikolaikirche		III / P + IV / P	42 + 62	→ Organ of the Nikolaikirche (Flensburg)
2010	Bratislava	Martin's Cathedral, Elisabeth organ		IV / P	69	Is to be expanded in a second construction phase by a remote control with 16 registers
2011	St. Polten	Church Music Conservatory		III / P	38	→ organ
2012	Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim	Laurentiuskirche		II / P	23	also numerous transmissions and extensions
2012	Piteå	Studio acusticum Konserthus		IV / P	91	also 35 transmissions and 68 extensions
2015	Vechta	Monastery church		II / P	51	including 3 extensions
2015	Neuried (near Munich)	St. Nicholas		II / P	36
2017	Mülheim (Cologne)	Friedenskirche		II / P	36

literature

• Gerald Woehl: The wind in the “symphonic organ” with Aristide Cavaillé-Coll . In: Acta Organologica 1984, pp. 331-333, ISSN  0567-7874 .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 341.

Web links

Commons : Gerald Woehl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gerald Woehl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Organ building workshop Woehl Marburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 Years of the Association of German Organ Builders . 1991, p. 341.
2. ↑ orgelbau-woehl.de , as seen on February 29, 2016.
3. ↑ Monika May
4. ↑ organ Portrait of organ building Woehl
5. ↑ abu-bratislava.sk: Organ in Bratislava , accessed on December 16, 2017.
6. ^ Organ in Bergen-Enkheim , accessed on December 16, 2017.
7. ^ Organ in Mülheim , accessed on December 17, 2017.