Johann Balthasar hero

Johann Balthasar Held († 1709) was Arp Schnitger's master apprentice and a respected organ builder in Lüneburg and Stettin .

Life

Held was a journeyman with Georg Nitrowski ( Danzig ) from 1672–1675 and then for many years a journeyman master at Schnitger. Together with other journeymen, Held was involved in the construction of the monumental Schnitger organ in Hamburg's Nikolaikirche (1682–1687). The Schnitger researcher Gustav Fock suspects that he introduced Schnitger to the Salizional register , which is common in the East and which he used between 1682 and 1690 in various organ arrangements . 1691–1692 Held was given the task of rebuilding the organ of the Groninger Martinikerk , the execution of which was judged to be “extra ordinaris goedt” in less than eight months. He then moved to Lüneburg and carried out various organ projects from there, including a repair for Dieterich Buxtehude's organ in Lübeck in 1695 . From 1699 he worked from Stettin, where he received the organ building privilege over the Swedish Pomerania . In 1701, the young Johann Sebastian Bach met Held in Lüneburg when he was expanding the St. Michaelis choir organ and, like Bach, lived in the Michaelis School . Hero died in 1709.

plant

year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1686	Plate	St. Mary	II / P	30th	Repairs and rescheduling for 60 Reichstaler
1695	Lübeck	Marienkirche	III / P	57	Repair; During Schnitger's time as a journeyman, Held is recorded here with voice work in 1685
1696	Pyritz				repair
1701	Luneburg	St. Michaelis	I.	4th	Repair of the positive choir; Lost from around 1800, reconstructed by Martin ter Haseborg in 2000 ; 1703 Held's proposal for a new building for the great organ
1704-1707	Szczecin	Marienkirche			repair
	Gartz (Or)	St. Stephan			New building
1708-1709	Koslin	Marienkirche			Reconstruction completed in 1709 by Andreas Hildebrandt

literature

Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape, Berlin 2017. p. 213
Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 186-187 .

Individual evidence

↑ Konrad Küster : Arp Schnitger's year 1682 and the consequences. Workshop formation, marriage process and initiation music . In: Music and Church . tape 9 , no. 1 , 2010, ISSN 0027-4771 , p. 32–36, here: p. 34 .
^ Jib: Arp Schnitger. 1974, p. 187.
↑ Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (= 241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 179, 186 .
^ Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach . 4th edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5 , pp. 65 .
↑ nomine.net: Organ in Plate , accessed on December 22, 2016.
^ Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice . Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2004, p. 88, 285 ( online [PDF] rev. 2007).

personal data
SURNAME	Hero, Johann Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
DATE OF DEATH	1709

[1] Konrad Küster : Arp Schnitger's year 1682 and the consequences. Workshop formation, marriage process and initiation music . In: Music and Church . tape 9 , no. 1 , 2010, ISSN 0027-4771 , p. 32–36, here: p. 34 .

[2] Jib: Arp Schnitger. 1974, p. 187.

[3] Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (= 241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 179, 186 .

[4] Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach . 4th edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-16739-5 , pp. 65 .

[5] .net: Organ in Plate , accessed on December 22, 2016.

[6] Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice . Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2004, p. 88, 285 ( online [PDF] rev. 2007).