Gräbner (harpsichord maker)
Members of the Gräbner family were important Dresden harpsichord makers from the 17th to the 19th centuries . The family goes back to Franz Gräbner, a fiddler from Adorf in Vogtland . He acquired citizenship in Dresden in 1593. There are 19 members of the family who worked in Dresden as court organists, organ builders , harpsichord builders and piano makers .
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Christian Gräbner (around 1640–1710) court organ builder and court organist
- Johann Heinrich Graebner the Elder Elderly (1665–1739), took over the office of court organist and was known as an organ builder and worked for the court. In 1692 he made the work in the Johanneskirche in Dresden.
- His son was:
- Johann Heinrich Graebner the Elder Younger (1705–1777), was an electoral Saxon court organ builder and piano tuner and known as a harpsichord builder. He produced harpsichords and small pianos and since 1763 fortepianos, which were also delivered to Poland and Lithuania.
- His sons were:
- Johann Gottfried Gräbner (1736–1808), built fortepianos, double grand pianos and upright pianos with his brother; in 1759 he was appointed electoral organ and instrument maker.
- Wilhelm Gräbner (1717– after 1796), built fortepianos, double grand pianos and pianos with his brother
- Karl August Gräbner (1749–1827) also learned from his father, separated from his stepbrothers after his death and worked alone.
Other members of the family:
- Johann Gotthelf Gräbner (1786–1844), harpsichord maker
- Julius Gräbner (around 1815–1856) built pianoforte
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gräbner (1838–1918), built pianoforte
- Karl Georg Gräbner (1873–1927), musical instrument dealer
- Karl Georg Erhard Gräbner (* 1904), musical instrument dealer
Preserved instruments
Clavichord owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johann Heinrich Graebner the Elder Older
- Two-manual keel wing from 1722 owned by Villa Bertramka in Prague. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to have played on this instrument .
- Organ positive in Pillnitz
Johann Heinrich Graebner the Elder Younger ones
- Two-manual harpsichord, owned by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Kunstgewerbemuseum in 1739 . The Dresden Kreuzkirche has a replica of this harpsichord .
- Two-manual harpsichord, owned by the Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig in 1774
- Clavichord owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johann Gottfried Graebner
- Two-manual keel wing, from 1782 to 1942 in a private collection in Jena
Karl August Graebner
- Harpsichord Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
- Fortepiano of the "Gebr. Gräbner “ Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
Johann Gotthelf Graebner
- A square piano owned by the Freiberg City and Mining Museum in Saxony.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Gräbner in the German biography
- ↑ Supplements / register of persons . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-097777-6 , p. 394 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-94977-8 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Dresden's oldest organ sounded in Pillnitz. In: Dresdner Latest News . Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Harpsichord. (No longer available online.) In: skd.museum. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017 ; accessed on July 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Harpsichord by Johann Heinrich Gräbner, Dresden 1774. In: mfm.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
- ^ School of Johann Heinrich Graebner - Clavichord. In: metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i. e. The Met Museum, accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Journal for Instrument Making. 53, 1932/33, p. 333, with illus.
