Ignaz Kober

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Ignaz Kober (born February 19, 1756 in Olomouc , Moravia (now the Czech Republic), † September 17, 1813 in Vienna ) was an organ builder .

life and work

In 1802, the Viennese court organ builder Ignaz Kober made the large organ with 64 registers for the Schottenkirche there, which was preserved until 1995 . Using parts of the case of the Roman organ, an instrument with over 50 registers was created , but it only has two manuals . This organ has voices with resounding tongues like the orchestrion by Georg Joseph Vogler . Vogler was in Prague from 1798 to 1800, from 1800 to 1804 in Vienna, then in Salzburg, and in 1805 in Munich. He had his system with resounding reeds and other innovations built into numerous organs at his own expense. Ignaz Kober and many other organ builders owed a lot to this fact.

More organs

In the northern arm of the transept of the Heiligenkreuz collegiate church , a large Kober organ, the height of which almost reaches the ceiling, found a worthy place after its restoration by Helmut Allgäuer in 1997. The organ was built in 1804 by the kuk court organ builder Ignaz Kober and has two manuals, 55 registers and 2959 pipes. Famous composers such as Franz Schubert and Anton Bruckner have played on it. Until 1950 it stood on a baroque gallery above the main portal of the nave. In doing so, it falsified the spatial effect of the Romanesque ship and covered the incidence of light through the windows on the west wall. The gallery was removed and the organ moved. The old parish church in Gloggnitz equipped Kober with an organ (I / 9m) around 1800, which was restored in 1996 by Diethart Pemmer (Purk, N.Ö.).

Two organs by Kober are known in Hungary. In May 1806 the master built a 38-register organ with two manuals and a pedal in the cathedral of Fünfkirchen . After completing the work, his assistant, Franciscus Vogt, settled in Fünfkirchen and for almost half a century he has built many excellent organs. The organ of the cathedral was dismantled in 1887 by the Angster & Sohn company and replaced by a new one. In 1808 Kober was commissioned to build the organ in Steinamanger Cathedral , but before the instrument was finished he died. The organ was completed in 1814 by Albert Gáspár Dorner, a local organ builder. On September 7, 1947, the cathedral was hit by several bombs, then the organ was destroyed.

Teacher

Johann Georg Gröber completed a three-year apprenticeship with Ignaz Kober. There were other important organ builders who had learned from Ignaz Kober. Leopold Sauer from Prague himself testifies to this in a report in the Musikalische Zeitschrift.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, Volume 3, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung , September 21, 1813, p. 326.
  3. ^ Organs in Austria 1983, page 110, books.google.at
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Musical Zeitung , Volume 25, Page 143 books.google.at
  5. ^ Robert Eitner:  Vogler, Georg Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 169-177.
  6. ↑ online Austrian organ database Karl Schütz
  7. ^ Kilián Szigeti: Régi magyar orgonák - Pécs (Old Hungarian Organs - Fünfkirchen) . Zeneműkiadó, Budapest 1979, ISBN 963-330-278-1 , p. 40-44 .
  8. ↑ A székesegyház orgonái. (PDF) Retrieved November 11, 2017 (Hungarian).
  9. ↑ http://orgeln.musikland-tirol.at/ob/Groeber-Joh-Georg.html
personal data
SURNAME Kober, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1813
Place of death Vienna