Goermans

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Members of the Goermans family also Germain were French harpsichord makers with a Flemish origin.

Johannes Goermans , with this name he signed his instruments, was born in Geldern in 1703 . Before 1730 he founded a workshop in Paris and since that year he has been led as a master of the instrument makers guild in Paris. Goermans married in the same year and had seven children. Among these was the daughter Jeanne-Thérèse, a harpist . His son Jacques Germain and son-in-law Jean Liborius Hermès (1749-1813) joined his workshop. He changed his name to the French Jean Germain . In addition to the workshops of Pascal-Joseph Taskin and Henri Hemsch , his workshop was one of the leading in Paris. He retired in 1773 after he began to suffer from paralysis . After his death, his son-in-law Jean Liborius Hermès took over the workshop.

Jean Germain II (1735 - around 1795) was the eldest son of Johannes Goermans. He became known as a harpsichord dealer and also worked as a harpsichord teacher. He lived in Paris and traded in Flemish, revised Ruckers' instruments . These were very popular in France at the time.

Jacques Goermans (also Jacob Germain , Jacobus Goermans or Jacques Germain ; around 1740 - April 8, 1789) was a son of Johannes Goermans. He learned the craft of making harpsichords from his father and lived in Paris. In 1766 he became a master harpsichord maker. When buyers became interested in the pianoforte , he also built them and was one of the early instrument makers who built this instrument. After his death, his brother-in-law Hermès ran the workshop until his death in 1813.

Preserved instruments

Harpsichord converted into a piano by Jean Goermans from 1754.

Eight preserved instruments by Johannes Goermans are known. A harpsichord dating from 1748 is privately owned in Philadelphia and another from 1750 is owned by Bates College, Oxford . In the Metropolitan Museum of Art , a harpsichord, dating from 1754. A harpsichord of 1764, which was revised by Pasqual Joseph Taskin 1783, is located in the Russell Collection in Edinburgh .

The most famous instrument by Jacques Goermans is a harpsichord from 1782 with a range of 21 keys per octave . It is in a mood that was developed by the French composer Jean-Benjamin de la Borde .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Edward L. Kottick: A History of the Harpsichord . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2003, ISBN 0-253-34166-3 , pp. 275 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Thomas Wolf: Goermans (Germain) . In: Igor Kipnis (ed.): The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-94978-5 , pp. 211 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 7, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Oxford university Bate Collection | Goerman's Harpsichord. In: bate.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art , accessed on July 6, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Restoration of the double-manual harpsichord by Jean Goermans / Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1764/83. In: claviantica.com. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  6. ^ Double-manual harpsichord. (1764) . In: exhibitions.ed.ac.uk , accessed on July 6, 2017.