Hans Wolff Schonat

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Organ in the Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam
Later expanded organ in The Hague

Hans Wolff Schonat (also: Johann Wolfgang Schonat ) (* 1614 as Joannes Wolfgangus Schonat in Windsheim , Bavaria ; † circa 1673 ) was a German organ builder active in the Netherlands .

life and work

Hans Wolff Schonat comes from a family of organ builders who shaped the Franconian organ landscape for two generations in the first half of the 17th century . He was the son of the organ builder Martin Schonat (around 1570 – around 1627), a student of Timotheus Compenius . His brother Johann Georg Linhard Schonat (born December 30, 1616 in Windsheim, † September 19, 1661 in Würzburg ) learned organ building from Johann Georg Künziger and became an organ builder.

It is likely that Hans Wolff Schonat also did his training at Künziger and moved to the Netherlands in the first half of the 1640s. In 1652 he married and settled in Amsterdam . He visited his Franconian homeland several times, for example in 1657. In 1648 he created a two-manual organ for the Lutheran Church in The Hague , which was expanded several times and replaced in 1753 by Johann Bätz . The changed case and also the pipe work from Schonat were included in the new building and were retained. His best-known work is probably the construction of the organ in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, which was built in 1655 and expanded in 1673. In 1658 a choir organ was built in the Oude Kerk , of which the case is still preserved. In addition to house organs, he also built stringed keyboard instruments such as harpsichords and virgins, as was customary at the time .

See also

literature

  • Theodor Wohnhaas , Hermann Fischer : The Frankish organ building family Schonat . In: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis. 21, 1968, pp. 46-56.
  • Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 372 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders. 1994, p. 372.
  2. ^ Wohnhaas, Fischer: The Frankish organ building family Schonat . 1968, pp. 46-56.
  3. ^ Organ in The Hague , accessed on April 4, 2015.
  4. ^ Choir organ of the Oude Kerk Amsterdam , accessed on June 7, 2018.