Jörg Bente

Jörg Bente (* 1958 in Wittingen , Gifhorn district ) is a German master organ builder in Helsinghausen in the Schaumburg district .

Life

Bente spent the first years of his life and school in Wittingen. In 1967 he moved to Berlin and attended the Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf after primary school . At the age of eight he received piano lessons, later organ and trumpet lessons. After graduating from high school in 1977, he began training as an organ and harmonium builder in the Karl Lötzerich workshop in Ippinghausen in 1978. During his apprenticeship he continued to play the organ. With the completion of the shortened apprenticeship, he became the chamber and Hessian state winner in the performance competition of the practical craft youth in 1981 .

His years of traveling first led him to the Förster & Nicolaus organ building workshop in Lich. Afterwards he worked for a few years in the organ building workshop of Dieter Noeske in Rotenburg / Fulda. During his activity in Rotenburg he attended the master school in Ludwigsburg and passed the master craftsman examination there in 1986 as the best of his year. From 1990 onwards he worked in the Emil Hammer organ building workshop in Hanover , and in 1993 he went freelance as an organ builder in Helsinghausen.

In addition to all work on pipe organs, restorations of harmonies (pressure and suction) are also part of his field of activity.

Jörg Bente received important impulses for his listening and his sonic work through his participation in the Junge Kantorei under Wilhelm Pommerien . Jörg Bente still works part-time as an organist and choir director. In addition, he takes a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik true (HMTMH) for the subject organ customer.

List of works (selection)

He became known through new buildings and restorations, in particular of instruments from the Engelhardt , Furtwängler and Meyer workshops . Below is a small selection:

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1986	kassel	Ev. Stiftsheim		I.	5	masterpiece
1995	Benthe	Ev.-luth. chapel		II / P	8th	New building
1996	Bielefeld	Ev.-luth. Trinity Church		II / P	12	New building
2003	Niedernstöcken	Ev.-luth. St. Gorgonius Church		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Furtwängler & Hammer (1912)
2004	Gehrden	Ev.-luth. Margaret Church		II / P	24	New building
2005	Estorf	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (1839)
2006	Betting mar	Ev.-luth. St. Marcus Church		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1856)
2006	Landesbergen	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	18th	New construction incorporating 6 registers from the previous Hillebrand organ (1974)
2007	Hanover	Ev.-luth. Market Church		I.	7 / p	Restoration of the Italian organ by Cimino (1780)
2008	Geismar (Göttingen)	Ev.-luth. St. Martin's Church		II / P	23	Restoration of the organ by Ph. Furtwängler (1861)
2009	Gerdau	Ev.-luth. St. Michaelis Church		II / P	15th	Restoration of the organ by Ph. Furtwängler (1874)
2010	Intschede	Ev.-luth. St. Michaelis Church		II / P	16	Restoration of the organ by Eduard Meyer and CW Meyer (1850)
2011	Mandelsloh	Ev.-luth. St. Osdag Church		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ by Ph. Furtwängler & Sons (1878)
2011	Dudensen	Ev.-luth. St. Ursula Church		I.	9	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Zuberbier (1754); three registers reconstructed
2014	regensburg	University for Catholic Church Music and Music Education Regensburg		I.	7th	Restoration of the Pilotti organ (1750)
2015	Alfeld (leash)	Ev.-luth. St. Nicolai Church		III	43	Restoration of the organ by Heinrich Schaper (1863)
2016	Osnabrück	Osnabrück University - Institute for Musicology and Music Education		I.	5	New construction of a chest organ "organo di legno"
2017	Walkenried	Walkenried Monastery - Chapter House		II	29	Construction of a new organ with 1,714 organ pipes
2017	Lerbach (Osterode am Harz)	Ev.-luth. Lerbach Church		II	20th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1830) / Gustav Carl Engelhardt (1863/64)
2018	Ratzeburg	Ratzeburg Cathedral (Paradise Organ)		II	12	Reconstruction and re-intonation of the Paradies organ by Klaus Becker (1985)
2019	Garbsen	Ev.-luth. Willehadi Church		II	23	New construction of the church organ

literature

• Organs in Oberberg churches . Contributions to the history of Oberberg, special volume 3, Galunda-Verlag Nümbrecht, Gummersbach 2004
• Organ monument maintenance, basics and methods using the example of the Nienburg / Weser district . Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation , 2003
• Lothar Weber: From the magic of an instrument - The Long Night about organ building and organ playing . Deutschlandfunk, 2007

Web links

Commons : Bente organs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Organ building workshop Bente