Johann Anton Breil

Johann Anton Breil (born January 9, 1821 in Dorsten , Westphalia , † November 16, 1892 in Regensburg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Johann Anton Breil learned the organ building trade from his brother Josef Anton Breil . On his journeyman journey he came to Regensburg in 1848. He settled down, received the citizenship of the city in 1853 and the associated permit to operate his own workshop. So he filled the vacuum after the death of Johann Heinssen in 1849. Until his death in 1892 he created numerous organs in the Regensburg and Upper Palatinate area . He also worked as an expert. Only a few instruments of his work survived the late Romantic period, with the more modern sound and technical equipment of that time. The only son of his four children, Anton Josef (born March 29, 1858), worked as an organ builder. He probably died in Olomouc .

List of works (excerpt)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
around 1850	regensburg	St. Rupert		I / P	11	original preserved; behind the prospectus of the previous organ, probably built by Michael Herberger, Stadtamhof . → organ
around 1850	Walkertshofen	St. Alban		I / P	6th
1850	regensburg	St. Catherine Hospital Church		I / P	8th	1974 Rickert transferred to the pilgrimage church of St. Michael in the Regensburg district of Kager
1853	Bad Abbach	St. Nicholas		I / P	8th	partially preserved; 1981 almost new building of Kloss I / 12
around 1855	Frauenbiburg near Dingolfing	Holy three kings				only received prospectus
1855	regensburg	Holy cross		II / P	15th	not received; Hidden in the following new buildings, to the side behind the choir grille in the nuns' choir: 1900 Siemann , 1978 Jann
1855	Rötz	St. Martin		I / P	13	not received; currently Michael Weise 1959 with free pipe prospectus (23 / II / P)
1857	Hüttenkofen near Mengkofen	Assumption Day		I / P	5
1857	Münchsmünster			I / P	7th
1859	regensburg	Monastery Church of St. Vitus , Church of the mental hospital			9	not preserved, new building by Eisenbarth in the choir
1864	Dingolfing	St. John		II / P	22nd
1866	Herrensaal near Kelheim	St. Benno		I / P	5	preserved in the former parish church of St. Jakobus d. Ä. in Kelheimwinzer
1870	regensburg	Old chapel		II / P	30th	New building in historical housing; not received
1875	Schaltdorf	St. Nicholas		I / p	5
1876	On the mountain	St. Martin		II / P	24	not received; Steinmeyer was expanded to II / 31 in 1891.
1876	Hall on the Danube	Our Lady of Sorrows		I / P	8th
1878	Obereulenbach near Rohr in Lower Bavaria	St. Sebastian		I / P	6th
1882	regensburg	Collegiate Church of St. Johann		I / P	11	not received; in the case of the previous organ

literature

• Michael Bernhard, Organ Database Bavaria , Version 5, 2009
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .
• Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .

Web links

• Johann Anton Breil in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Johann Anton Breil at the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund eV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church / rectory . Online at www.obereulenbach.de. Retrieved July 7, 2020.