Guido Hermann Schäf

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Guido Hermann Schäf (born October 14, 1840 in Grünhainichen , † May 14, 1911 in Freiberg ) was a Saxon organ builder .

life and work

From 1862 Schäf learned organ building from Christian Friedrich Göthel , whose journeyman and master student he became. On October 1, 1870, Schäf founded his own workshop in Grünhainichen, which he relocated to Freiberg on August 28, 1879 and ran it until his death in 1911. So far, seven new organs and numerous repair, maintenance and renovations are known. The maintenance of the Freiberg organs was entrusted to him by Gottfried Silbermann , whose large organ he maintained in Freiberg Cathedral from 1889 to 1911. In 1892 he tuned the Silbermann organ in Forchheim , and in 1901 that in Nassau . In the church of Oberbobritzsch he renovated the Silbermann organ in 1898/1899 and replaced two registers , in Zöblitz he carried out maintenance work in 1893. He played a major role in the building of the organs in Grünlichtenberg , Simselwitz , Eppendorf and Gahlenz . His sphere of activity was limited to the organ landscape of Saxony .

The marriage with Laura Auguste Schäf resulted in two sons. After Schäf's death, Laura Auguste Schäf transferred the business to Alfred Schmeisser .

List of works

The list of works shows his previously known new organs.

In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1871 Weißenborn / Erzgeb. Village church I / P 9 New building
1876 Langenau St. Leonhards Church II / P 11 New building
1876 Gränitz Prayer house II / P 11 New building; receive
1878 Annaberg-Buchholz Annaberg teacher training college II / P 14th New building; 1914 transfer to Ulbersdorf
1880 Wilkau-Haßlau Wilkau village church II / P 20th New building
1887 Kleinhartmannsdorf Kleinhartmannsdorfer Church II / P 14th New building

literature

  • Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory . VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 .
  • Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 290 .
  • Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 2 : Saxony and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 , pp. 331 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Walter: The Saxon organ builder Christian Friedrich Göthel. In: Alfred Reichling (Ed.): Acta Organologica . Volume 20. Merseburger, Kassel 1988, pp. 162-291.
  2. ↑ a b Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2. 2012, p. 331.
  3. ^ Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. 1980, p. 108.
  4. ^ Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. 1980, pp. 101, 209, 211, 283.
  5. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 290.
  6. ^ Christian Friedrich Göthel. In: Organ festival program 150 years of the Göthel organ. Program booklet, Ev.-Luth. St. Nikolai parish Grünlichtenberg, 2017.
  7. ^ Organ in Gränitz , accessed on March 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schäf, Guido Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sheep, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünhainichen
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1911
Place of death Freiberg