Jürgen Ahrend organ building

Jürgen Ahrend in 2019

Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau is an organ building company in Leer-Loga , East Frisia . She achieved world fame through the restoration of baroque organs, including the Arp Schnitger organs of the Jacobikirche Hamburg , the Martinikerk in Groningen (NL) and the Ludgerikirche in the north as well as the Ebert organ of the Hofkirche Innsbruck . It was founded by Jürgen Ahrend (born April 28, 1930 in Treuenhagen near Göttingen ). His son Hendrik Ahrend has been running the company since 2005.

history

Jürgen Ahrend was born in 1930 as the son of Heinrich Ahrend, who had studied music, was a singer and choir director and played various keyboard and string instruments. In his first marriage Jürgen Ahrend was born with Margarete. Bartels, who married the Dutch organist Klaas Bolt on January 2, 1990 . Of the five children in total, Sievert and Heiko Ahrend are musicians, composers and music producers.

Jürgen Ahrend learned his trade from 1945 with Paul Ott in Göttingen and at the age of 24 founded the company Ahrend & Brunzema (1954–1971) in Leer-Loga together with Gerhard Brunzema (1927–1992) . The first work of this cooperative was the restoration of the organ of the reformed church in Larrelt . The restoration of the historical organs in Westerhusen , Uttum and Rysum in the Krummhörn , which were again tuned to a medium tone , caused a worldwide sensation , which initiated a return to traditional craftsmanship techniques and musical aesthetic sound ideals. Due to the location of the workshop in the middle of the organ landscape of East Friesland with its numerous original instruments, one had enough opportunity to deal with the essence of these organs. Ahrend and Brunzema received the Lower Saxony State Prize for Crafts in 1962. Up to 1971 the catalog of the jointly produced or restored works comprised 74 instruments. That year Brunzema left the company to settle in Canada, where he started his own business in 1980 and died in 1992.

Between 1972 and 2004, Jürgen Ahrend and his employees built, reconstructed or restored 90 more plants. Jürgen Ahrend earned his reputation as one of the leading organ builders and restorers due to his consistent restoration practice and his high level of intonation . On May 21, 1986 Jürgen Ahrend received the Lower Saxony State Prize for Culture and on May 5, 2007 the Buxtehude Prize of the city of Lübeck . He was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. iur. Hc) on April 19, 2000 by Monash University, Victoria (Australia).

Hendrik Ahrend (2020)

Hendrik Ahrend (born August 11, 1963) worked in his father's company after graduating in 1983. After the organ building apprenticeship with Johannes Rohlf in Neubulach (1984-1987) and the civil service (1987/88) he came back to his father's company (1988/89 and 1996-2000), but interrupted his work by studying American studies and Sports Science (1989-1995). Since 1998 he has been entrusted with increasing amounts of work. In 1998 he took over the intonation of the labial pipes of the organ in Dornum and, in 2002, was responsible for the planning of the organ for the Luther Church in Leer . Hendrik Ahrend completed the master course at the music school for organ building in Ludwigsburg in 2000 and then studied 14 months with his teacher Johannes Rohlf. In 2004 he received the International Arp Schnitger Prize for his services. After 50 years of successful activity, Jürgen Ahrends has been managed by his son since February 2005. Hendrik Ahrend continues the tradition of his father, but also breaks new ground by re-using the historical sand casting process to make pipes. He uses hot glue to glue on leather and to seal wood in the winch or in the wind chests in order to prevent lead corrosion of the pipes. It is created by leaking acetic acid from oak or by using acetate glue . Hendrik Ahrend is a project partner in the research project “Development of Measures to Reduce Lead Corrosion on Organ Pipes from the 17th and 18th Centuries”, which is funded from 2016 to 2018 by the German Federal Environmental Foundation and the Hanover Monastery Chamber. For over 30 years he has been playing semi-professional bluegrass with his brother Heiko, but in recent years has concentrated entirely on organ building.

Works (selection)

The size of the instruments is indicated by the number of manuals (Roman numerals) and the number of sounding registers (Arabic numerals). A separate pedal is marked with a capital "P", an attached pedal with a small "p". R = restoration, Rk = reconstruction and NB = new building. The links in the last column refer to further information and the dispositions .

Ahrend & Brunzema (1954–1971)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	info
1954/88	1/129	Emden- Larrelt	Larrelter Church		I / p	11	Restoration of the organ by Johannes Millensis (1619) → Organ
1955	4th	Westerhusen	Westerhuser Church		I / p	7th	Restoration of the organ by Jost Sieburg (1643) → Organ
1957	8th	Emden- Harsweg	reformed Church		I.	4th	New building
1957	9	Uttum	Uttum Church		I.	9	Restoration of the organ (around 1650) → Organ
1957 (1997)	10	Veldhausen	Old Reformed Church		I (II / P)	6 (13)	New building with horizontal trumpet → organ ( Dutch )
1959/2002	18th	Scheveningen (NL)	Zorgvlietkerk		III / P	26th	New building; since 2016 in Leer-Loga, St. Marien → organ
1960	22nd	Zutphen (NL)	Walburgiskerk		I / p	6th	New construction of the choir organ → organ ( Dutch )
1961	25th	Rysum	Rysumer Church		I.	7th	Restoration of the organ (1457/1531), exposure of the late Gothic prospect, reconstruction of the lost carving, the double doors and three stops → organ
1961	27	Aurich	Lamberti Church		II / P	25th	Groundbreaking new building based on the classic principles of organ building, breastwork prepared for expansion → organ
1962	30th	Bremen	St. Martini		III / P	33	New building in the historic case by Marten de Mare / Christian Bockelmann (1619) → organ
1964	35	Hatzum	St. Sebastian Church		I / p	7th	New building with double doors → organ
1965	41	Amsterdam (NL)	Oude Kerk		II / P	17th	New construction of the choir organ in the historical case by Hans Wolff Schonat (1658) → organ
1965	43	Amsterdam (NL)	Oude Waalse Kerk		II / P	26th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Müller (1734) → Organ ( Dutch )
1966/96	45	Bremen - Oberneuland	St. Johann		III / P	28	New building in the style of the north German baroque organ; Chestpiece prepared in 1996 expanded → Organ (PDF; 198 kB)
1967	49	Castrop-Rauxel	Johanneskirche in Schwerin- Frohlinde		III / P	27	New building
1968	57	Gutersloh	Gospel Church		II / P	20th	New building in the style of the North German-Dutch baroque organ → organ
1968	58	Haarlem (NL)	Doopsgezinde kerk		III / P	24	New building → organ
1969	62	Hamburg	Reformed Church Altona		II / P	15th	New building → organ
1969	63	Loga	reformed Church		I / P	9	New building
1966/69/87	65	Marienhafe	Marienkirche		II / p	20th	Restoration of the organ by Gerhard von Holy (1713) in several construction phases → organ
1970	68	Frankfurt am Main	Cantate Domino Church		III / P	33	New building → organ (PDF; 1.9 MB)
1970	69	Uelsen	reformed Church		II / P	20th	New building in the historical case by Johann Gustav Schilling (1768) → organ
1965-1970 / 1975-1977	70	innsbruck	Court Church		II / p	15th	Restoration of the organ by Jörg Ebert (1561) → Organ
1971	72	Westerstede	St. Peter's Church		II / p	22nd	Reconstructing new building behind the prospectus by Joachim Kayser (1687), addition of a Rückpositiv → organ
1963-1971	74	Empty	Big church		III / P	37	Consolidation of the organ in its grown state in different construction phases → organ

Jürgen Ahrend (1972-2004)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	info
1972	75	Reinbek	Nathan Söderblom Church		II / P	19th	New building → organ
1972	76	Eugene (USA)	University of Oregon		IV / P	38	New building → organ
1966-1973	79	Ochtersum	St. Materniani Church		I / p	9	Restoration of the organ by Christian Klausing (1737) → Organ
1972-1975, 1993/1994	81/141	Stade	St. Cosmae et Damiani		III / P	42	Restoration of the organ by Berendt Hus / Arp Schnitger (1673) → organ
1974	83	Taizé (F)	Church of Reconciliation		III / P	28	New building, since 1996 in the cathedral of Lyon (photo) → organ
1975	84	Hamburg	Christian Community Johnsallee		II / P	18th	New building
1975	90	Frankfurt am Main	Evangelical town church Höchst		II / P	18th	New building
1975	92	Sloten (NL)	Protestant Church		II / p	16	Restoration of the organ by Albertus van Gruisen (1786) → Organ
1975	93	Empty loga	Residential building Ahrend		II / p	8th	New building
1977	97	Duderstadt	St. Servatius		III / P	28	New building
1978	98	Edinburgh (GB)	Reid Concerthall		II / P	21st	New building
1978	100	Joure (NL)	Protestant Church		III / P	27	New building → organ
1979	103	Melbourne (AUS)	Monash University		IV / P	45	New building → organ
1980	104	Leiden (NL)	Hooglandse Kerk		II / P	24	Restoration of the organ by Pieter Jans de Swart (1565) → Organ
1981	105	Toulouse (F)	Musée des Augustins		III / P	33	New building → organ
1982/1999	107	Ludingworth	St. Jacobi Church		III / P	35	Restoration of the organ by Antonius Wilde (1599) → Organ
1978-1983	108	Weener	Evangelical Reformed Church		II / P	29	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1710) → Organ
1983	110	Worfelden	Ev. church		I.	6th	Restoration of the organ by Adam Knauth (1624) → Organ
1976/1977/1983/1984	96/111	Groningen (NL)	Martinikerk		III / P	52	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1692) → Organ
1985	115	Porrentruy (CH)	Église des Jésuites, Lycée Cantonale		II / P	30th	New building, copy of the Silbermann organ from Glauchau → organ
1981-1985	116	north	Ludgeri Church		III / P	46	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1692) → Organ
1985	118	Stellicht	St. Georg Christophorus Jodokus Church		II / p	12	Reconstruction of the organ by Marten de Mare (1610) → organ
1986	120	Tokyo (Japan)	St. Gregory House		II / p	13	New building
1986	121	Kantens (NL)	Antoniuskerk		I / p	10	Restoration of the Huys organ (1660s) → organ
1986/1987	127	Vienna (A)	Michaelerkirche		III / P	40	Restoration of the organ by Johann David Sieber (1714) → Organ
1987-1990	128	Stade	St. Wilhadi		III / P	40	Restoration of the organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt (1736) → Organ
1989	130	Tsukuba (Japan)	Bach Grove		II / P	19th	New building
1989	131	Wetzlar	Franciscan Church		II / P	22nd	New building → organ
1990	134	Milan (I)	San Simpliciano		III / P	35	New building
1991	135	Pilsum	Kreuzkirche		II / p	16	Restoration of the organ by Valentin Ulrich Grotian (1694) → Organ
1991	138	Zwettl (A)	pen		III / P	35	Restoration of the organ by Johann Ignaz Egedacher (1731) → Organ
1990-1993	139	Hamburg	Saint Jacobi		IV / P	60	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1693) → Organ
1993	140	Payerne (CH)	Parish church		II / P	22nd	Reconstruction of the organ by Johann Melchior Grob (1787) → Organ
1993/1994	143	Trondheim (N)	Nidaros Cathedral		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Joachim Wagner (1741) → Organ
1994/1995	144	Osteel	Warnfried Church		II / p	13	Restoration of the organ by Edo Evers (1619) → Organ
1995	145	Munich	German museum		II / P	17th	New building → organ
1997	147	Landshut	St. Jodok		II / P	15th	New building → organ
1997	149	Tokyo (Japan)	Nihon University		III / P	41	New building → organ
1997	150	Stuttgart	Music college		II / P	15th	New building → organ
1998	151	Logabirum	Logabirum Church		I / P	10	New building, the prospectus is based on the previous organ (around 1725) → Organ
1997/1998	153	Dornum	St. Bartholomew Church		III / P	32	Restoration of the organ by Gerhard von Holy (1711) → Organ
1999	156	Payerne (CH)	Abbey church		I / p	11	New building → organ
2000	157	Lübeck	Lübeck Cathedral (Italian organ)		I / p	10	Restoration of the Biaggio di Rosa organ (1777) → Organ
2000	158	Kongsberg (N)	Kongsberg church		III / P	42	Restoration of the organ by Gottfried Heinrich Gloger (1765) → Organ
2001	159	Trebel	Lutheran Church		II / P	19th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Georg Stein (1777) → Organ
2002	160	Empty	Luther Church		III / P	39	New building in the historical case by Hinrich Just Müller (1795) → organ
2002	161	Cologne	Ursuline Church		II / P	19th	New building in the style of the north German baroque organ → organ
2002/2003	162	Wilten (A)	Collegiate church		I / P	4 (10)	Restoration of the organ by Daniel Herz (1675) → Organ
2003/04	163	Altenbruch	St. Nicolai Church		III / P	35	Restoration of the organ by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1730) Organ
2004	164	Hokksund (N)	Haug, Norway kirke		II / P	22nd	New building → organ
2004/2008/2012	165/183	Oldersum	Oldersum Church		II / P	18th	New construction in several construction phases → organ

Hendrik Ahrend (from 2005)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	info
2005	170	Notre Dame / Indiana (USA)	University of Notre Dame		I.	5	New building
2005	171	Pernegg (A)	Pernegg Abbey		II / P	18th	restoration
2006	172	Calgary (CA)	University of Calgary		II / P	21st	New building → organ
2007	176	Herzogenaurach	St. Otto		II / P	26th	New building in the north German tradition → organ
2007	177	Vaison-la-Romaine (F)	Cathédrale Notre Dame		II / P	20th	New building → organ
2007	178	Kantens (NL)	Antoniuskerk		II / p	15th	Reconstruction of the Rückpositiv → organ
2007	179	Våler (N)	Våler church		I.	8th	Restoration of the Samuelsen organ (around 1781) → organ
2007/08	180	Empty	Catholic Apostolic Church		II / P	10	New building in the style of the early 19th century
2008	181	Pischelsdorf (A)	Pilgrimage Church Hart		I.	6th	Restoration of the organ by Konrad Zerndl (1628) → Organ
2009	187	Venice (I)	Chiesa di San Salvador		I.	8th	New building → organ
2009	188	Melle	St. Matthew		II / P	23	Restoration of the Klausing organ (1713) → organ
2009	189	King Wusterhausen	Kreuzkirche		II / P	19th	New building behind the historic prospectus (1706) → organ
2010	194	Brixen (I)	Frauenkirche on the cloister		II / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Daniel Herz (1649) → Organ (PDF; 978 kB)
2010/2011	195	Hollern	St. Mauritius		II / P	24	Restoration of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1690) → Organ
2011/2012	199	Worpswede	Zion Church		II / P	24	New construction based on the lost predecessor organ by Dietrich Christoph Gloger (1762) → organ
2011/2012	200	Buttforde	St. Mary's Church		I / p	9	Restoration of the organ by Joachim Richborn (1701) → Organ
2012/2013	202	Abbey (South Tyrol)	St. Jakob and Leonhard		III / P	35	New building
2013	203	St. Peter (Black Forest)	Maria Lindenberg		II / P	17th	New building
2013/2014	204	Möllenbeck Monastery	Monastery church		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Wilhelm Möhling (1844) → Organ
2015	207	Langwarden	St. Laurence		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ by Hermann Kröger and Berendt Hus , reconstruction of the missing registers
2015	208	Hüls (Krefeld)	St. Cyriac		I / p	8th	Restoration of the organ by Peter Weidtmann the Elder (1683)
2015-2016	210	Heidelberg	St. Raphael		II / P	32	New building
2017	212	Engelhartszell (A)	Engelhartszell parish church		II / P	13	New building
2017	213	Tokyo (J)	Private		II / P	7th	New building
2014-2018	206/215	Empty	Big church		III / P	48	Restoration / reconstruction and extension by an upper structure → organ
2019	216	Tübingen	Evangelical College for Church Music		II / P	14th	New building, also 4 pedal transmissions, mid-tone and well-tempered, switchable via alternating loops (18 pipes per octave)
2018-2020		regensburg	Trinity Church		III / P	47	New building in the historic housing by Franz Jakob Späth (1758)

literature

• Uwe Pape: Jürgen Ahrend and Gerhard Brunzema. In: Organ Yearbook. No. 3, 1972, pp. 24-35.
• 25 years of organ building Jürgen Ahrend 1954–1979. Self-published, Leer-Loga 1979.
• Menna Hansmann: There is a heavenly roar and roar again. In: Ostfriesland-Journal. No. 4, 1991, pp. 33-39.
• Günter Lade (Ed.): 40 years of organ building Jürgen Ahrend 1954–1994 . Self-published, Leer-Loga 1994.
• Heimo Reinitzer (Hrsg.): The Arp Schnitger organ of the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg . Christians, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7672-1187-4 , (including Jürgen Ahrend: The restoration of the Arp Schnitger organ at St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Inventory and restoration report compiled by Günter Lade, with a contribution by Cor Edskes , Pp. 127-265).
• James L. Wallmann, Lawrence H. Moe (Eds.): Jürgen Ahrend, organbuilder. Celebrating forty years of his career (1954-1994). American Organ Academy, Oakland / CA 1995.
• Wolfgang Henninger: East Frisian organ building with world renown . In: Our East Frisia . 1995, p. 8.
• Thomas Schumacher: For heaven's glory, people for joy . In: Ostfriesland-Magazin . No. 6, 1996, pp. 35-37.
• Peter Golon, Harald Vogel (ed.): Fiori gratulatorii Jürgen Ahrend - Organopoeius. For the 50th anniversary of the organ workshop in Leer and Loga dagli amici e ammiratori . CSW Druckservice, Grasberg 2004.
• John Hamilton: Ahrend, Jürgen (B. 1930) . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York / London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 22–23 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Craftsmen set the tone . In: Chamber of Crafts for East Friesland (Ed.): We are craftsmen: 100 years Chamber of Crafts for East Friesland . Aurich 2008, p. 46 f . ( online [PDF; 3.8 MB ]).
• Marinette Extermann and Benoît Zimmermann: Entretien avec Jürgen Ahrend. In: Les orgues des églises médievales de Payerne. Association pour la mise en valeur des orgues Ahrend de Payerne. Payerne 2010. pp. 27-43.
• Winfried Dahlke , Jürgen Ahrend: The documentation of the organ in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Leer - the historical pipework . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2011, ISBN 978-3-7959-0927-7 (first version 2008 Print on Demand).
• Reinhard Ruge: The Arp Schnitger organ in the Ludgerikirche in the north (East Frisia) . Florian Isensee, Oldenburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7308-1550-2 , (including Jürgen Ahrend: restoration report with photos , pp. 82–128).
• Markus Zimmermann: 65 years of organ building Ahrend 1954–2019 (= Great Art Guide / Cities and Individual Objects. Volume 292). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7954-3499-1 .

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage (with history and list of works)
• Info and link list (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Radio Nordseewelle , accessed on March 10, 2018.
2. ^ J. van 't Hul: Een huwelijk van honderd dagen . In: Reformatory Dagblad . July 19, 1991, p. 3.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage Heiko Ahrend , accessed on March 10, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Homepage Jürgen Ahrend Orgelbau : History , accessed on August 12, 2017.
5. ^ Cleveland Johnson : Ems-Dollart Region . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , p. 172: “The emergence of the Ems-Dollart organs as cultural treasures of worldwide significance was made possible by four important events: (1) the founding of the Jürgen Ahrend and Gerhard Brunzema workshop (Leer) in 1954, which quickly established itself as the leading shop for restoration and conservation ".
6. ↑ Nachtorgel: Künstler 2005 ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 12, 2017.
7. ↑ Arp Schnitger Society : Prize Winners, accessed on August 12, 2017.
8. ↑ MPA Bremen , accessed on March 6, 2017.