Ibe Peters Iben

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Ibens company sign on his cabinet organ built in 1790

Ibe Peters Iben (born January 9, 1738 in Emden ; † May 8, 1808 ibid) was a German organ builder who worked in East Frisia in the 18th century . He seems to have only built cabinet organs.

life and work

Ibe Peters Iben was born in Emden in early 1738 as the son of Peter Iben and Geeske Hinderks . His parents belonged to the Evangelical Reformed congregation in Emden and had their son baptized there on February 9, 1738. It is not known where he completed his training as an organ builder. He ran an organ building workshop in Emder Grosse-Brück-Strasse. There he employed two journeymen in 1775/1776.

Iben built small organs throughout the East Frisian area that served as house organs, and also received a number of orders from the Dutch region around Groningen . Most of the registers are made of wood. For the metal registers of the cabinet organs, Iben integrated pipework from older instruments. Iben seems to have rarely carried out repairs. Only the church organ in Westeraccum is known to have been repaired in 1790.

Onstaborg Castle , the first location of the Iben organ from 1783

The few surviving new buildings from Iben are now mostly in museums. A body set up in 1783 by Iben Cabinet organ located in the United States in the collection of the University of California in Berkeley . The instrument has a checkered history: originally built for Onstaborg Castle near Sauwerd in the Dutch province of Groningen , after its destruction it came into the possession of the Dutch organ builder Petrus van Oeckelen and was installed in the church of the hamlet of Klein Wetsinge near Sauwerd. The organ was initially serviced by van Oeckelen himself, then from 1884 by the organ builder Jan Doornbos from Groningen. Around 1910 it was privately owned in Bedum , later it belonged to two antique dealers in Groningen. After a restoration in the early 1960s by the organ builder Johann (Hans) Brink (Groningen, Netherlands), the instrument was shown in Appingedam in the exhibition "Oude Kunst uit Hogelandster bezit" in 1962 and was then for a while as a choir organ in the church of Appingedam in use, while the Hinsz organ from 1744 was restored. In 1965 the instrument was auctioned off at Berkeley. Organ builder Greg Harrold (* 1955) from Los Angeles restored the two-hundred-year-old instrument in 1984 and lists it in the list of works on his website as his Opus 10 ; there you can also find the arrangement and photos of the organ.

Ibens cabinet organ (built 1790) in the Organeum organ museum in Weener

His best-known work is the cabinet organ, built in 1790 for a Dutch family, which today is the landmark of the Organeum organ museum in Weener , East Frisia . The instrument has five registers, including four split registers that have largely been preserved in their original form. The upper case has curved shapes, while the lower case with its blind drawers looks like a chest of drawers. The instrument can be completely locked through the double doors and the manual cover. The organ is crowned with allegorical figures of truth and Minerva , the goddess of craft and art. They are designed according to Jost Amman's (1599) templates and flank a bowl of fruit. In the prospectus there are wooden pipes with a foil in white gold and red gold. The organ was privately owned by the Netherlands until 1988 before it was acquired by the East Frisian landscape . The pipework and technical system were restored in 2007 and 2008 by Reinalt Johannes Klein and the color version by the Dutch specialist Helmer Hut. The instrument has Dutch register names and the following disposition :

I Manual C – d 3
Gedact B / D 8th'
Fluittraver (from c 1 ) 8th'
Principal B / D 4 ′
Gedact B / D 4 ′
Octaav B / D 2 ′

Works (selection)

year place Church or location image Manuals register Remarks
1783 Berkeley , California University of California I. 7th Cabinet organ with some wooden registers; Moved to Westerlee (NL) in 1817 and to Klein Wetsinge (municipality of Winsum ) in 1876
1789 Braunschweig Brothers Church I. 6th Cabinet organ, built for private ownership in Emden; 2013 repair and maintenance by Reinalt Johannes Klein; The casing and the core of the wind chest have been preserved, the wind system, keyboard and pipework modern
1790 Weener Organeum Organ Ibsen.JPG I. 5 Cabinet organ built for private ownership in Blijham ( Reiderland municipality , NL); 2007/2008 restored by Reinalt Johannes Klein; largely preserved
1804 I. 6th Cabinet organ, privately owned (until the 1960s in Ihrhove , then in Münster and Aumühle)
1805 Braunschweig Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum I. Cabinet organ, built for private ownership in Emden. The State Museum loaned the instrument to the St. Leonhard Chapel from 1954–1961, which repaired it. Since then back in the State Museum.

literature

  • Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968, p. 45-47 .
  • Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 9 .
  • Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 , p. 146-148 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 1995, ISBN 978-3-929902-62-4 , p. 134 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Baptismal register of the Evangelical Reformed Church Emden for the years 1724 1744, p. 240, viewed on ancestry.de on February 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia. 1968, p. 47.
  4. ↑ Flip Veldmans: Huisorgel Bohmers dr (with dispositions from 1783 and 1964). In: kerk-en-orgel.nl. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Pape: Fifty Years Organ Building Guide . Pape Verlag, 1982, ISBN 978-3-921140-26-0 , p. 16 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Douglas Earl Bush: The Organ. Psychology Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-94174-7 , p. 243 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  7. ^ Opus 10 Greg Harrold (with disposition). In: gregharrold.com. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  8. ^ Opus 10 Greg Harrold (photos of the Iben organ from 1783). In: gregharrold.com. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Winfried Dahlke , Günter GA Marklein: Organeum. Organ Academy Ostfriesland . Isensee, Oldenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7308-1320-1 , p. 15 .
  10. ↑ The Cabinet Organ by Ibe Peters Iben (1790) , accessed on February 9, 2018.
  11. ^ Organ history Westerlee
  12. ↑ Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia. 1968, pp. 46, 265.
  13. ↑ Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia. 1968, p. 265.
  14. ↑ Braunschweig homeland . 43rd volume, issue 2, 1957, p. 59 ( online , PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Iben, Ibe Peters
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Frisian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1808
Place of death Emden