Johann Casper Beck

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Johann Casper Beck (also: Johann Caspar Beck ) (* 1703 in Herrenbreitungen ; † June 25, 1774 ibid) was a Baroque organ builder from Thuringia .

life and work

Little biographical data have been secured about Johann Casper Beck (II.). This also applies to a family relationship with the organ builder David Beck . Presumably Johann Casper Beck I, who emerged as an organ builder in Wernigerode and Halberstadt , was his father. Beck may have learned organ building from Johann Adam Bestel in Herrenbreitungen. Beck also worked variously in Hesse , especially in the Kassel area. During the construction period of the Laubach organ from 1747 to 1751 he worked with his student Johann Michael Wagner . As foreman, Johann Andreas Heinemann played a key role in building this new organ. A Johann Christoph Beck († 1827), who worked as an organ builder in Roßleben , could have been Beck's grandson and the organ builder Johann Casper Beck III. from Wernigerode his son.

Typical of Johann Casper Beck II is the Hessian-Thuringian prospect design with two-storey flat fields and harp-shaped pedal towers.

List of works

In the fifth column, the Roman number denotes the number of manuals , a capital "P" denotes an independent pedal , a small "p" denotes an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column denotes the number of sounding registers .

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1736 Man spreads St. Michael
1737 Schmalkalden Wilhelmsburg Castle Schmalkalden 018.jpg I. 6th Reconstruction and repair of the organ by Daniel Meyer (1590)
1740 Schmalkalden City Church of St. George repair
1743 Zella Mehlis Magdalenenkirche Magdalenenkirche Zella-Mehlis 03.jpg II / P 26th
1744 Wommen Evang. church I. 9 Prospectus received
1748 Wallbach (Meiningen) I. 12
1749 Metzels Evang. church Extension of the organ
around 1750 Seligenthal
1747-1751 Laubach City Church Laubach city church organ 20110409.jpg II / P 21st together with Johann Michael Wagner; 9 registers preserved, 2010 reconstruction and expansion to III / P / 28 (33) by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau → Orgel
1754 Dermbach Holy Trinity
19850706625NR Dermbach Ev Church Holy Trinity Altar Organ.jpg
 II / P 23 Prospectus received
1756-1757 Stedtlingen Evang. church I / P 9 Get prospectus; possibly together with Heinrich Wilhelm Möller; 2011 restoration by Orgelbau Waltershausen
1759 Schweina Evang. church II / P 22nd

literature

  • Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .
  • Siegfried Lotze: Renaissance organs in the Landgraviate of Hesse. 400 years of Schmalkalden Castle Church . In: District of Kassel, yearbook . 1991, p. 73 ff .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (ed.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 59 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ 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 , p. 565-567 .
  3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Thuringia. 2009, p. 21.
  4. ↑ Hartmut Haupt : Organs in the Suhl district. Council d. Bez.Suhl, Culture Department, Suhl 1985, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Johann Casper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Man spreads
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1774
Place of death Man spreads