Herman Eberhard Freytag
Herman Eberhard Freytag (* 1796 ; † July 16, 1869 in Peize , Noordenveld municipality ) was a Dutch organ builder . As the son of Heinrich Hermann Freytag , he continued the Groningen organ workshop until 1863, which was in the tradition of Arp-Schnitger .
life and work
Freytag was born to Heinrich Hermann Freytag and his wife Hiskia Hornemann (1765-1817). When his father died in 1811, employees led by the widow continued the business on a smaller scale. In 1817, Herman Eberhard and his brother Barthold Joachim (1799–1829) took over management of the company. After Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe moved the Schnitger organ from the Academiekerk to the Aa-Kerk in 1815, a maintenance contract was signed with Herman Eberhard Freytag. When the Aa-Kerk's position as organist became vacant in 1826, Freytag applied.
Freytag built few new organs, but was mainly commissioned with repairs and renovations. He saw himself proudly in the Schnitger tradition and retained the style of the previous instruments when making modifications. Like his father, he also built cabinet organs . He mainly worked in the Netherlands, but also repaired the Hinsz organ in Leer and the Schnitger organ in Weener in East Frisia .
His son Willem Fredrik Freytag (1825–1861) died before he could take over the company. A year later his daughter Jantje Freytag also died. Herman Eberhard retired and in 1863 sold the company to the family of Dirk Lohman , who may have been a student of Freytag. Freytag moved with his sister Maria Hezekiah to Peize, where the organ of the Geertruids- or Pepergasthuiskerk was installed by Anthonie Verbeeck (1631) and Arp Schnitger (1697) in 1862. In the course of the company's liquidation or after Freytag's death in 1869, important documents by Schnitger were lost.
List of works
The following works by Freytag are still largely preserved (5th column: large "P" = independent pedal, small "p" = attached pedal):
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1817 | Groningen | The Aa-Kerk | III / P | 32 | Maintenance contract for the organ by Arp Schnitger (1702) | |
1820 | Groningen | Pelstergasthuiskerk | II / p | 20th | Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1693) | |
1821 | Leer (East Frisia) | Big church | II / p | 21st | Repair of the organ by Albertus Antonius Hinsz (1766) → Organ | |
1826, 1828, 1838 | Weener | Evangelical Reformed Church | III / P | 37 | Repairs and minor work on the organ by Arp Schnitger (1710) → Organ | |
1834 | Zeerijp | Jacobuskerk | II / P | 19th | new wind chest and two new registers in the Rückpositiv, replacement of the prospect pipes, expansion of the full bass octave | |
1844 | Uithuizen | Menkemaborg | I. | 9 | Enlargement of the cabinet organ by Jan Jacob Vool and Hermanus Adolphus Groet (1777) | |
1852 | Groningen | Lutheran Kerk | III / P | 31 | Reconstruction of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1699) and addition of a Rückpositiv, which was moved to Gasselternijveen by Petrus van Oeckelen in 1896 and installed there as a parapet organ ; received rebuilt | |
1856 | Borrower | Willibrordskerk | I / p | 6th | New construction or reconstruction of an organ of his father | |
1862 | Scheemda | Oude Herv. Dorpskerk | I / p | 11 | Extension of the organ by Matthias Amoor (1733) |
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 .
- Richard Kassel: The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Ed .: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel. Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 211–212 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- 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 , p. 259-260 .
Web links
- J. Jongepier on the Freytag family (Dutch).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 259.
- ↑ Jan R. Luth (Ed.): "Wereldberoemde klanken". Het Schnitgerorgel in de Der Aa-kerk te Groningen en zijn voorgangers (= Nederlandse Orgelmonografieën. Volume 11). Walburg Pers, Zutphen 2011, ISBN 90-5730-775-8 , p. 128, limited preview in the Google book search.
- ^ J. Jongepier on Freytag (Dutch), accessed March 7, 2018.
- ↑ Organ in Gasselternijveen , p. 4, accessed on March 7, 2018.
- ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, pp. 66, 217.
- ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 188.
- ↑ organ Menkemaborg , accessed on 7 March 2018th
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Freytag, Herman Eberhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1796 |
DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1869 |
Place of death | Peize , Noordenveld municipality |