Johann Benedikt Ernst Wegmann

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Johann Benedikt Ernst Wegmann (born February 19, 1765 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 6, 1828 ) was a German organ and instrument builder.

Life

He came from a not insignificant organ dynasty in southern Hesse. His grandfather Johann Conrad Wegmann , who came from Switzerland, had founded the business, which was continued by his father Philipp Ernst Wegmann . However, he initially passed the business on to his Hildesheim journeyman Johann Friedrich Meynecke , who ran the business in Frankfurt at least until the beginning of the 1780s. Meynecke had already appeared as a foreman when the organ was being built in Bobenhausen II in 1774/75 . Philipp Ernst Wegmann apparently intended to emigrate to the USA, but died in 1778 while crossing the river.

Johann Benedikt Ernst Wegmann was referred to as a Discipul , i.e. student, of Johann Friedrich Meynecke in 1780 . On March 21, 1796, he swore the citizens' oath in Frankfurt, so that one can assume that he was also running the workshop at this point in time.

Wegmann never married and died in 1828.

plant

The new organ in Nieder-Erlenbach was built in 1781 together with Meynecke, as an inscription discovered in 1955 shows. In 1824 Wegmann took over the maintenance of the instrument, which Philipp Heinrich Bürgy had provided from 1795 to 1823. Parts of an older instrument by Lorenz Ettlin (1626/27) were used for the organ in Schotten . An inscription in the wind chest informs about those involved and the role of Meynecke: “ Built with God in the Wegmann workshop under the foreman Joh. Fried. Meynecke von Hildesheim and Joh. Sigismund Aust and Joh. Bened. Weegman and Joh. Phil. Wilh. Warrior ". In 1827 Wegmann carried out a minor work on the organ in Dortelweil .

Wegmann's organs are shaped by the Rococo . Wegmann's characteristic prospectus design consists of seven or nine parts with a medium-sized round tower, low pointed towers and small round towers on the sides, with raised, harp-shaped flat fields in between.

In addition to organs, Wegmann also built pianos. A square piano from 1796 has been preserved that Wegmann referred to as No. 48 on a slip of paper in the instrument. A fortepiano dates from 1797 (Frankfurt), which is now in Windesheim ( Organ Art Museum ).

Proven works

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1780 Sulzbach (Taunus) Ev. church I / P 10 receive
1781 Nieder-Erlenbach Ev. church II / P 24 preserved some registers; 1955 extended to two manuals by Emanuel Kemper
1779-1783 Bulkheads Ev. City Church
Schotten City Liebfrauenkirche Organ w.png
 II / P 27 using an organ by Lorenz Ettlin (1626/27) from the Katharinenkirche (Frankfurt am Main) ; rebuilt several times; Prospectus and five registers received

literature

  • Hans Martin Balz : organs and organ builder in the area of ​​the former Hessian province of Starkenburg. A contribution to the history of organ building (=  studies on Hessian music history . Volume 3 ). Bärenreiter second-hand bookshop, Kassel 1969.
  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 6 ). tape 1 : Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs . Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 .
  • Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 1: A – L. 1988, p. 141.
  2. ↑ On the other hand, writes: eibt Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, p. 34 that Johann Benedikt Ernst was only eight years old when his father died.
  3. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 767.
  4. ↑ a b Fortepiano in the Orgel Art Museum , accessed on April 17, 2018.
  5. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 664 f.
  6. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 852.
  7. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 243.
  8. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 862.
  9. ^ Clavier am Main , accessed on April 17, 2018.
  10. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse , accessed on April 17, 2018.
  11. ^ Organ in Niedererlenbach , accessed on April 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Wegmann, Johann Benedikt Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ and instrument builder
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1828