Herman Eberhard Freytag

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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
1817 Groningen The Aa-Kerk
Groningen Aa-kerk organ (1) .JPG
 III / P 32 Maintenance contract for the organ by Arp Schnitger (1702)
1820 Groningen Pelstergasthuiskerk
Groningen Pelstergasthuiskerk orgel.jpg
 II / p 20th Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1693)
1821 Leer (East Frisia) Big church Empty Great Church Organ.JPG II / p 21st Repair of the organ by Albertus Antonius Hinsz (1766) → Organ
1826, 1828, 1838 Weener Evangelical Reformed Church Weener Ref Organ.jpg III / P 37 Repairs and minor work on the organ by Arp Schnitger (1710) → Organ
1834 Zeerijp Jacobuskerk
Zeerijp - organ - uitgeklapt.jpg
 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
Interior, aanzicht kabinetorgel, organ number 1491 - Uithuizen - 20356759 - RCE.jpg
 I. 9 Enlargement of the cabinet organ by Jan Jacob Vool and Hermanus Adolphus Groet (1777)
1852 Groningen Lutheran Kerk
Interior, aanzicht organ - Gasselternijveen - 20370573 - RCE.jpg
 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
Interior, aanzicht organ, organ number 204 - Borger - 20370568 - RCE.jpg
 I / p 6th New construction or reconstruction of an organ of his father
1862 Scheemda Oude Herv. Dorpskerk
Interior, aanzicht organ, organ number 411 - Scheemda - 20359297 - RCE.jpg
 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 259.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ^ J. Jongepier on Freytag (Dutch), accessed March 7, 2018.
  4. ↑ Organ in Gasselternijveen , p. 4, accessed on March 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, pp. 66, 217.
  6. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 188.
  7. ↑ organ Menkemaborg , accessed on 7 March 2018th
personal data
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