Johann Caspar Schlimbach
Johann Caspar Schlimbach (also Schlimmbach ; born July 30, 1777 in Merkershausen , † before May 21, 1861 in Bad Königshofen ) was an organ and instrument builder.
biography
Schlimbach was born in Merkershausen. With his cousin Bernhard Eschenbach in Bad Königshofen around 1810 he built the direct forerunner of the harmonium , the Aeoline , an instrument with piercing tongues . Schlimbach had learned organ and piano making in Vienna.
His son Ernst Balthasar Schlimbach (1807-1896) was also an organ builder in Würzburg , who in 1836 took over the orphaned workshop of the former court organ builder Seufert . On December 23, 1845, he received a ten-year privilege for the Kingdom of Bavaria to improve organs. He was succeeded in 1873 by his son Martin Joseph Schlimbach , (born January 28, 1841 in Würzburg, † April 12, 1914 in Würzburg).
Before 1805, the court organ builder, Ignaz Kober in Vienna, teacher of Leopold Sauer , built a large organ in the Schottenkirche , which also uses resounding tongues in some registers. So Schlimbach should have already known about it. Reeds without a tube that is tuned to the corresponding tone, as is the case with pipes, but no one seems to have used it in combination with a piano or as an independent instrument.
The reed plates with their tongues (springs) were made like jew's harps at that time . The frame and tongue were made of steel. The frame was U-shaped and the steel tongue was attached to the frame in the same way as is still done with the jaw harp today. The reed plates were glued directly into the sound chamber of the wind chamber with pitch and beeswax. A report on the invention can be found in the Musikalische Zeitung No. 30 of July 26, 1820.
There is such an instrument in Berlin.
There are also similar patents in Vienna in 1821, for example Anton Haeckl and Friedrich Sturm in Stuhl.
(Note: There is another Georg Christian Friedrich Schlimbach (1759–1813), who appeared as a critic of Georg Joseph Vogler and was organist and cantor in Prenzlau and later in Berlin.)
Works (selection)
- Rannungen , Catholic parish church St. Bonifatius (organ from 1859)
literature
- Hermann Fischer : Schlimbach (organ and instrument builder). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 89 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Keyboard wiki ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - portal on the subject of historical piano making
- Schlimbach (Schlimmbach), Johann Caspar in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gleichmann: The inventor of the harmonium - Bayer , In: Das Harmonium 9 , 1911, p. 89
- ^ Hans Martin Balz : organs and organ builders in the area of the former Hessian province Starkenburg , page 373 online
- ^ "[Ernst] Balthasar Schlimbach (1807-1896) from Königshofen i. Gräberfeld owned the largest company", In: Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas : Historische Orgeln in Unterfranken , page 26 online
- ↑ "who took over the orphaned Seufert workshop in 1836, and his son Martin (1841-1914) gained national importance.", In: Hans-Wolfgang Theobald : The Ostheimer organ builder Johann Georg Markert and his work: a contribution to the history of organ building in Thuringia in the 19th century , page 73 online
- ↑ Kunst- und Gewerbe-Blatt , Volume 42, 1856, page 262 Online
- ↑ Allgemeine Musical Zeitung, Volume 15, February 13, 1813, pages 117–120. on-line
- ↑ See MIM Berlin, cat. No. 5321 Querhammerflügel with Aeoline, Johann Caspar Schlimbach, Königsofen, around 1815
- ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Schlimbach ( books.google.de )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlimbach, Johann Caspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlimmbach, Johann Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Organ and instrument builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merkershausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | before May 21, 1861 |
| Place of death | Bad Koenigshofen |