Autumn (family)

Herbst (family) is a family of organ builders in Magdeburg who worked mainly in the Magdeburg, Hildesheim and Harz foreland in the 17th and 18th centuries .

Heinrich Herbst the Elder

Heinrich (also: Henrich ) Herbst the Elder (* around 1620 in Salzderhelden ; † June 22, 1687 ) worked in Hildesheim . He founded a family of organ builders based in Magdeburg.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1638	Wolfsburg	St. Mary's Church
1646	Osterode am Harz	St. Aegidienkirche				Working on the organ
1658	Hildesheim	St. Paul				New building; In 1806 the church was abolished.
1667	Hildesheim	St. Andrew				Completion of the new organ by Hans Hinrich Bader from Unna (from 1654); not received
1677-1680	Altenhausen	St. Trinity
1680-1683	Basedow	Basedow Church		III / P	36	New building by father & son Heinrich, together with son-in-law Samuel Gercke ( Güstrow ); 14 registers and housing preserved
1686	Hoheneggelsen	Market Church		I.	6th	New building, originally built for Holle together with his son ; In 1840 an independent pedal was added to I / P / 8; Transferred to Hoheneggelsen in 1934

Heinrich Herbst the Younger

Heinrich Herbst the Younger (* around 1650; buried December 6, 1720 ) was the son of Heinrich Herbst the Elder and also worked in Magdeburg. He built his organs with double spring shutters , which was an older design at the time. The structure of the prospectus varied from the Hamburg prospectus . Characteristic of the Herbst family are the small pointed treble towers next to the polygonal tenor and bass towers. Herbst was unable to assert himself against Arp Schnitger in Magdeburg . After Herbst had not finished building the organ in the Sankt Jakobi Church after many years, the contract was withdrawn after negative reports and the organ there was completed by Schnitger (1698–1703). Schnitger's organ in Wegeleben was sold to Groß Quenstedt in 1737 and transferred there from Herbst. A well-known student of Heinrich Herbst was Christoph Treutmann the Elder (* 1673 or 1674).

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1680-1683	Basedow	Basedow Church		III / P	36	New building by father & son Heinrich, together with son-in-law Samuel Gercke; 14 registers and housing preserved
1686	Hoheneggelsen	Market Church		I.	6th	New building, originally built for Holle together with his father; In 1840 an independent pedal was added to I / P / 8; Transferred to Hoheneggelsen in 1934
1694	Zerbst / Anhalt	St. Trinity		II / P	22nd	Not received
1678-1698	Magdeburg	Saint Jakobi Church		III / P	37	New building; completed by Arp Schnitger (1698–1703); not received
1698-1700	Barby	St. Mary's Church				New building; only received prospectus
1709-1710	Experience	Erxleben Castle, St. Godehardi Castle Chapel		II / P	24	Largely destroyed in 1945; Prospectus with principal 8 ′ received; 2009–2014 preparatory work and 2015–2019 restoration / reconstruction by Jörg Dutschke
1712-1718	Halberstadt	Halberstadt Cathedral		III / P	65	New building together with his son Heinrich Gottlieb; only get prospectus → organ of the cathedral in Halberstadt
1719	Aquatic life	St. Sylvestri

Heinrich Gottlieb Herbst

Heinrich Gottlieb Herbst (also: Johann Gottlieb Herbst ) (* May 1, 1689 ; † May 7, 1738) was the son of Heinrich Herbst the Younger. There is only evidence of a new organ built:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1728-32	Lahm (Itzgrund)	Castle Church		II / P	29	Almost completely preserved new building → organ of the castle church in Lahm (Itzgrund)

Furthermore, the son of Heinrich Herbst the Elder, Johann Dedeleff Herbst (* around 1682), is proven to be an organ builder for Magdeburg, who, together with his father, submitted drafts for Magdeburg, St. Jakobi.

literature

• Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 .
• 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 .
• Peter A. Golon: And yet it was! Schnitger and Basedow. News about the founding years of a style-forming organ building workshop . In: Ars Organi . tape 46 , 1998, pp. 74–78 ( online - with photos of the organ in Basedow).
• Walter Haacke: The history of the development of organ building in the state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Wolfenbüttel 1935.
• Reinhard Jaehn: The Basedow Organ (1683), Mecklenburg's oldest sounding organ . In: Ars Organi . tape 32 , 1984, pp. 90-98 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Christoph Wolff , Markus Zepf: The organs of JS Bach. A manual . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02407-6 .

Web links

• Autumn organ in Lahm (Itzgrund)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony . 1997, pp. 144, 230.
2. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school . 1974, p. 193f.
3. ^ Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 114 f .