Hans Christoph Fritzsche

Hans Christoph Fritzsche (* before 1629; † 1674 in Hamburg ) was a German organ builder from Dresden who was active in northern Germany, Denmark and southern Sweden .

Life

Fritzsche was the son of the organ builder Gottfried Fritzsche from his first marriage. In 1655 he set up his workshop in Copenhagen . There were family ties to Friedrich Stellwagen since he married Fritzsche's sister Theodora. His son-in-law Hans Heinrich Cahman married his daughter Anna Christina and continued the business after Fritzsche died while working on the new building in Hamburg-Neuenfelde .

Proven works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1646	Handorf	St. Mary			13	New building; received some registers
1647-1649	Cuxhaven - Altenbruch	St. Nicolai Church		II / P	25th	Extension conversion; after a further extension conversion by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1727–1730) III / P / 35 (= today's condition); 12–16 registers from Fritzsche received
1651 (approx.)	Lisbon ( Portugal )					Delivery of an organ of unknown size
1652	Oederquart	St. Johannis		III / P		Including 10 stops from the previous organ (1581, 1632 badly damaged); 1678–1682 extension by Arp Schnitger , who moved the organ from the choir to the north gallery; nothing has survived from the Fritzsche organ.
1653	Oberndorf (Oste)	St. George's Church				Replaced later
1655	Hamburg	St. Jacobi		IV / P	53?	1655–1658 major renovation work for 1656 marks lüb. ; → Main article: Organ of the main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg)
1655	Copenhagen	Trinitatis Kirke		III / P	42	New building
1662	Elsinore	Marienkirche		II / P	24	Reconstruction of the Lorentz organ (1634–1636) commissioned by Dietrich Buxtehude ; only the prospectus pipes of the Rückpositiv are preserved.
1662/63?	Helsingborg	Saint Mary's Church		II / P	24	Works on behalf of Dietrich Buxtehude. The organ was sold to the Torrlösa Church in 1849 .
1666	Halmstad ( Sweden )			II / P	24	New building
1670-1671	Main Church of Sankt Katharinen (Hamburg)			IV / P		Expansion of the pedal to include Principal 32 'and Trombone 32'; the work was not completed (Fritzsche received a payment of 960 marks lüb.). The work was carried out 1671–1674 during the expansion to IV / P 58 by Johann Friedrich Besser (before 1640–1693).
1671	Doemitz	Johanneskirche		II / p	13	New building
1673	Hamburg-Neuenfelde	St. Pankratius Church				Completed by Cahman. Later brought to Stade (Burgkirche) by Arp Schnitger and then sold to Bremen . For his new building, Schnitger integrated older material from two Fritzsche registers.

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 .
• Marc Honegger, Guenther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music . tape 3 . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. [Et al.] 1980, ISBN 3-451-22921-8 .
• Kerala J. Snyder (Ed.): The Organ as a Mirror of Its Time . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-514415-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konrad Küster: "Wolzielete Musica ... after David's manner and use". An Altenbruch sermon from 1653 as the key to northern German musical culture . In: Stader Jahrbuch 2007 (= Stader Archive, NF 97), pp. 55–92; and Altenbruch Organ Foundation: HC Fritzsche
2. ↑ Fock 1974, pp. 45 and 56.
3. ↑ Fock 1974, p. 45
4. ↑ Uwe Pape and Wolfram Hackel (eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 3 : Saxony-Anhalt and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-921140-98-7 , pp. 49-50 .
5. ^ Neuenfelde, St. Pankratius