Jürgen Andreas Marcussen

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Jürgen Andreas Marcussen (born April 8, 1816 in Wester-Satrup , † February 26, 1900 in Aabenraa ) was a Danish organ builder .

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Jürgen Andreas Marcussen was a son of the organ builder Jürgen Marcussen and his wife Anna Maria Andresen (or Andersen) (* February 26, 1782; † September 28, 1857). His mother was a daughter of Andreas Jacobsen (1739-1822) and his wife Ellen, née Jessen (1737-1825). He had two sisters and two brothers. The brother Alexander (1806-1835) worked since 1833 as a deacon in Hammelev .

Marcussen received private lessons in his parents' house and studied with Pastor Jens Peter Windekilde in Wilstrup . He then completed an apprenticeship as an organ builder with his father and his partner Andreas Reuter . After that he probably helped as a journeyman in the company. From 1842 he visited several organ builders in Germany and stayed with Eberhard Friedrich Walcker in Würzburg for a long time : Walcker had developed a cone wind chest at the time. Marcussen explained to Walcker the quality of a box bellows that his father had developed.

After Reuter's death in 1847, Marcussen went to Aabenraa and worked in his father's company, which was called Marcussen & Søn the following year . In 1848 he helped to renovate the Tönning organ , and the following year he helped to rebuild the instrument in Gothenburg Cathedral . Commissions from larger churches in the duchies, Denmark and Sweden followed, including 1850 for Køge , 1853 Elmshorn , 1854 for St. Mary's Church in Helsingør , 1855 Mölln , 1856 Wöhrden and Barmstedt . By the time his father died in 1859, 35 new organs had been built together. Marcussen & Søn had around 20 employees at the time.

Marcussen initially ran the company with his brother-in-law JK Kornemann, who left after a few years. After that, he continued to run the business alone and received large orders:

  • 1860 from Vänersborg
  • 1861 for the Haga Church in Gothenburg and the Vicelin Church in Neumünster
  • 1862 for Odense Cathedral
  • 1864 for the Christian Church in Gothenburg.
  • In 1856 the organ builder completed an instrument for the Olaikirche in Helsingør. Because of the German-Danish war and the collapse of the state as a whole, Marcussen did not receive any noteworthy orders from Denmark for decades.
  • Marcussen received further orders from Sweden until 1879. In 1868 he renovated the organ in Lund Cathedral , which he rebuilt in 1876. The instrument with 61 voices was the largest organ that Marcussen built.

Marcussen then mostly worked for churches in the province of Schleswig, for example in 1866 for Gettorf , 1867 for Oldenburg and Ahrensbök , 1871 for Burg auf Fehmarn , 1874 for Segeberg , 1879 for the Nikolaikirche in Flensburg and the Rendsburger Christkirche , in 1883 for the Sankt-Petri-Kirche in Altona , 1884 for Wesselburen and 1896 for Niebüll . There were also numerous village churches that ordered organs for the first time.

With the organ of the church of Nortorf, Marcussen created the 100th organ he had worked on. The 200th workpiece followed in 1891 with the Ratekau organ . Since he made the acquaintance of the organist Leopold Iwan Cirsovius who lived there in 1869 while building the church in Pronstorf , the latter repeatedly wrote small articles and newspaper articles about the organ landscape of Schleswig-Holstein and the achievements of Marcussen's company.

Around 1880 Marcussen took his son Hartwig Alexander (born December 3, 1859 in Aabenraa) on as a partner in his company. In particular, his son carried out work outside the workshop. In 1887 he built an instrument with tube pneumatics for the first time, which at the time replaced mechanical action. His son died in 1879. He was replaced by Marcussen's great-nephew Jens Lassen Zachariassen (1864–1922), who took over the company after Marcussen's death and made it the most important organ building company in the Kingdom of Denmark.

family

Marcussen's first marriage was Marie Sophie Münster (1828–1851), with whom he had no children. In his second marriage he married Marie Jensen (1828–1908). From this marriage came six daughters and two sons.

literature

  • Dieter Lohmeier: Marcussen, Jürgen Andreas. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Vol. 9, 1991. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pp. 225-227.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Lohmeier: Marcussen, Jürgen Andreas. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Vol. 9, 1991. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 225.
  2. ^ Dieter Lohmeier: Marcussen, Jürgen Andreas. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Vol. 9, 1991. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pp. 225-226.
  3. ↑ a b c d Dieter Lohmeier: Marcussen, Jürgen Andreas. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Vol. 9, 1991. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , p. 226.
personal data
SURNAME Marcussen, Jürgen Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Wester Satrup
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1900
Place of death Aabenraa