Hieronymus Albrecht Hass

Hate Clavichord (1742)

Hieronymus Albrecht Hass (variants: Haas , Hasse , Hase , Hasch ) (baptized December 1, 1689 in Hamburg ; † June 19, 1752 ibid) was a German harpsichord and clavichord maker .

Life

Hieronymus Albrecht Hass is the father of Johann Adolph Hass , who also built harpsichords and clavichords. He obtained Hamburg citizenship on October 2, 1711, and Hamburg was also his place of birth and death. In 1713 he is listed on his son's birth certificate as an instrument maker and clavir maker .

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Fretless clavichord by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass from 1732 in the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg

Harpsichord by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass from 1734 in the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels

The last instruments he built are two fretless clavichords from 1744; a clavicimbel for Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön was delivered in the same year.

The oldest written reference to works by the Hass family dates back to 1758, when Jakob Adlung mentions "Hasse in Hamburg" as the builder of a harpsichord d'amour . In 1773 the English music historian Charles Burney names Hasse, father and son, both dead as German organ builders and mentions that their grand pianos and pianos are much sought after .

Raymond Russell writes about Hass and his son that “the scope and quality of their traditional work make them one of the top ranks in German instrument making”. Frank Hubbard writes about their instruments that “ only one has what could be regarded as a normal disposition ”. The harpsichords that have been handed down to us show in various ways the endeavors to develop the instrument further: one from 1721 is 2.58 m long; one from 1723 has the unusual disposition 8 '- 8' - 8 '- 4'. Occasionally, Hass set up a 16 'register (one octave below the standard 8' register) and a 2 'register (2 octaves above the 8' register).

In 1740, Hass created the largest known harpsichord built before the 20th century: It has three manuals with couplers , five registers (16 ′, 8 ′, 8 ′, 4 ′, 2 ′), six rows of jumpers, a lute and a harp slide for the 16 ′ register.

literature

• Donald H. Boalch: Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1880. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995.
• Frank Hubbard: Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making. Cambridge, MA, 1965, 2/1967.
• Raymond Russell: The Harpsichord and Clavichord. London, 1959, 2/1973.
• Donald Howard Boalch, Peter Williams, Alexander Pilipczuk: Hate [Haas, Hasse, Hase, Hasch]. In: L. Macy (ed.): Grove Music Online .
• Lancelot Edwin Whitehead: The Clavichords of Hieronymus and Johann Hass. University of Edinburgh, 1994. Digitized (PDF file, 19.2 MB).

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