Hans Hummel (organ builder)

Hans Hummel (historically Hans Humell ; † 11. February 1630 in Levoča , then Upper Hungary , now Slovakia ) was a Frankish organ builder , who in Poland worked and Upper Hungary. Hummel was Georg Nitrowski's teacher .

Life

Hans Hummel / Georg Nitrowski organ from 1611–1633 in Olkusz

Rückpositiv of the Hans Hummel / Georg Nitrowski organ in Olkusz

Olkusz, St. Andreas parish church, epitaph by Joannes Hummel

Since two organ builders with the name Hans Hummel were mentioned in Franconia at this time, it is difficult to distinguish between them. One received Nuremberg citizenship in 1588 , the other in 1592. Until 1617, some works are known in Hersbruck and Nuremberg. The other organ builder named Hummel died on October 22nd, 1624 in Nuremberg.

Hans Hummel became a citizen of Cracow in 1608 . From 1611 he built an organ in Olkusz (Olkusch) in Lesser Poland, which today is considered the oldest preserved in Poland. From 1624 he built an organ in Levoča (Leutschau) in what was then Upper Hungary (now Slovakia), which was the largest in Hungary until the 19th century. Hummel's 4-year-old son Joannes died while working in Olkusz. Its epitaph is under the organ loft in Olkusz.

It took Hans Hummel a long time to complete his work, which led to considerable tension with the client. In 1629 an arrest warrant was issued against him by the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa because the work that had been started in St. Mary's Church in Krakow was partially paid for, but not completed. On February 11, 1630, Hans Hummel fell from the scaffolding in Levoča and died. Suicide due to financial difficulties cannot be ruled out .

Hummel built wind chests with dividers for all registers, had very wide-bored, soldered reed flutes, funnel-shaped salicionals, mixtures with octave repeaters and different types of reeds.

List of works (selection)

Francs (clear allocation unclear)

• Hersbruck , church, 1591, 1606, repairs
• Nuremberg , St. Sebald , 1617, repairs

Poland and Slovakia

• Vermillion , National Music Museum, University of South Dakota , around 1620 [?], Chest organ, preserved and restored (6 / I)
• Olkusz , St. Andreas, 1611–1624, new building, completed 1631–1633 by Georg Nitrowski, oldest surviving organ in Poland, restored by Flentrop Orgelbouw in 2015–2018 (31 / II + P)
• Mechau , monastery church of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, 1613, new building, not preserved
• Krakau , St. Marien , 1618, extensive renovations, completed 1638–1641 by Georg Nitrowski, not preserved (29 / II + P)
• Levoča , St. Jakob , 1624–1630, new building, completed in 1630 by Georg Nitrowski, 27 registers, remodeled in the 19th century when the original ones were retained (25 or 27 / II + P), partially preserved, not restored
• Krakow, St. Mark , time unknown

literature

• Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in the past and present . 2nd, revised edition. Volume 9. Bärenreiter, Kassel; JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2003. Sp. 1399.
• Theodor Wohnhaas : Hummel, Hans . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 2: H - Pe. KG Saur, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 . P. 712.

Web links

• Hans Hummel organs and organ builder in Slovakia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More detailed in Organ in Levoča Organs and Organ Builders in Slovakia
2. ↑ Catalog raisonné in Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
3. ↑ https://emuseum.nmmusd.org/objects/7618/chest-organ?ctx=8ebec13a-65d4-4e91-8d04-3e0f514b48a7&idx=0. Retrieved February 2, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Organy Basilica St. Andreas (Polish)
5. ↑ Najstarsze polskie organy (Polish)
6. ↑ Call for donations for the restoration of the Hummel organ in Olkusz Schwalbacher Zeitung from August 29, 2018
7. ↑ Projects 2018 Baltic Organ Center
8. ↑ Jerzy Golos: Polskie organy i muzyka organowa . Warszawa 1972, p. 275 .
9. ↑ Acta inscriptionum officii consularis Crac. In: https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/29/33/0/1.4.1/461/skan/save/MGQsjybisq_vWrjydoyurA . Retrieved January 1, 2020 (Latin, Polish). 
10. ↑ Hans Hummel ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Polskie Wirtualne Centrum Organowe (Polish) 
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12. ^ Organ St. Jacob Levoča