Gregorius Struve

Gregorius Struve († before 1737) was a master craftsman of Arp Schnitger and a well-known organ builder in the Oldenburg and Bremen area .

Life

Struve came from Westensee and was probably the son of the local organist Hans Jürgen Struve. He is proven as a journeyman at Schnitger's new organ in the Bremen Cathedral (1693–1698). He was probably a good voicer who had a position of trust with Schnitger. He was given the management of various new buildings by the master. Nine works by him can be found in the county of Oldenburg . From 1715 and increasingly from 1720 he was responsible for the maintenance of Bremen's city organs. His occasional designation as a “city soldier” goes back to his service in the Bremen vigilante group (1712–1730). He died before 1737. His son Johann Caspar († 1759 in Aurich) is mentioned as an employee of Johann Friedrich Constabel (from 1741) and of Johann Adam Berner (1756). In 1744 he repaired the organ in St. Wilhadi Church in Stade, where his father was also active. Peter Struve, who worked in Schleswig-Holstein in the second half of the 18th century, is possibly a family descendant.

plant

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1722	Bremen	Bremen Cathedral		III / P	50	Repair and minor changes; not received
1725	Strückhausen	St. John		II / p	12	Repair; Housing and 2 registers preserved
1728	Dorum	St. Urbanus				Repair; not received
1730	Otterndorf	Severikirche				Repair; Organ replaced in 1740
1732	Oberndorf	St. George's Church				Repair; not received
1728/36	Stade	St. Wilhadi		III / P	40	1728 repair of the old organ; 1736 Assistance in the new building by Erasmus Bielfeldt ; receive
1733	Wanna	St. George				New building

literature

• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 119-120 .
• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of the old Duchy of Oldenburg . Stalling, Oldenburg 1962, p. 162 .
• Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice . Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2007 ( ibo.ortgies.googlepages.com - dissertation, 2007 revised version).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kaufmann: Orgeln , p. 162.
2. ^ Fock: Arp Schnitger , p. 120.