Johann Christian Dotzauer

Johann Christian Dotzauer (born March 17, 1696 in Hildburghausen ; † December 5, 1773 in ibid.) Was an organ builder in Hildburghausen ( Thuringia ).

Life

Dotzauer came from a family of carpenters. His grandfather Michael Dotzauer († 1680) emigrated from Dotterwies in Bohemia and can be traced back to Hildburghausen as a miller in 1663 and later as a carpenter. His son of the same name (1655-1710) also learned the profession of carpenter. Michael Dotzauer was married to Anna Dorothea Bräutigam († 1710). At the age of 14, Johann Christian Dotzauer was an orphan.

Johann Christian Dotzauer was initially a carpenter before 1715. With the support of Duke Ernst von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, he learned organ building from Johann Georg Schröter in Erfurt and Franciscus Volckland before 1720 . In the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen he received the organ building privilege of the court organ builder around 1725 and was apparently the successor to Caspar Schippel . Since Nicolaus Seeber also had the privilege, there was a dispute that lasted several years, which ended with a settlement in 1728. As a result, both organ builders had to share the privilege.

Dotzauer married Johanna Catharina Hellmuth († April 14, 1780) in 1728, the daughter of the tailor Johann Georg Hellmuth. The marriage had four children. The daughter Catharina Louisa Dotzauer (* August 12, 1729; † October 13, 1788) married Johann Georg Henne (* 1725 in Kleinmünster ; † November 7, 1799 in Hildburghausen) in 1752 , who learned organ building from Dotzauer. Henne was his successor in the 1770s and also took over his organ building privilege. Dotzauer's son Elias Friedrich (1731–1787) was chamber musician with the Prince of Saxony-Hildburghausen after studying music in Vienna and from 1769 organist von Hildburghausen. Friedrich's son Karl Dotzauer (1777-1845) took over the father's office as court organist. Another son, Justus Johann Georg Dotzauer (1737-1818), became a pastor. His son Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer achieved fame as a cellist and composer. Another son (1740-1814) of Johann Christian was named after the father. Johann Christian Dotzauer jun. probably learned organ building in his father's workshop and built the organ in Dingsleben.

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Dotzauer's five-axis brochure design corresponds to the Central German normal type. The mostly wide, elevated central tower (flat-round or pointed) is flanked by two flat fields and two low towers. The pedals like to stand in side pedal towers. In addition to repairs and conversions, 17 new organs were built by Dotzauer in the organ landscape of Thuringia , especially in Saxony-Hildburghausen. In most cases, only the baroque cases have been preserved, into which new interior works were later built. Original registers can still be found in Westhausen, Zeilfeld, Crock and Effelder.

List of works

Italic letters indicate that nothing or only the historic case has been preserved. In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals and a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal . The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers . The last column provides information on the state of preservation or further information.

year	place	Building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1724	Hildburghausen	Apostle Church				New building; Housing taken over; not received
1730	Honing	Ev. church		II / P	22nd	New building; Housing received
1731	Crock	St. Vitus		II / P	13	New building; Housing and two registers preserved
1731	Queienfeld	Church of the Help of God		I / P	13	New building; Housing received
1735	Rentwertshausen	Ev. church				New building; not received
1736	Bad Rodach	St. Johannis		II / P		New building; Housing received
1737	Streufdorf	St. Mary		II / P	17th	New building; Housing received
1737	Hirschendorf	St. Lorenz		I / P	9
1739	Stilts	Marienkirche		I / P	10	New building; not received
1745-1746	Effelder	St. Kilian		II / P	15th	New building, plants placed one behind the other
around 1750	Westhausen (near Hildburghausen)	St. Kilian		II / P	12	New building incorporating older registers around 1690; rebuilt several times, in 1841 by Michael Schmidt; 2017 restoration by Jörg Stegmüller
1747	Ummerstadt	St. Bartholomew		II / P	21st	New building; Housing received
1748	Sachsenbrunn	Church of the Holy Cross				New building; not received
around 1750	Gießübel (sluice ground)	To the Holy Trinity				New building; Housing received
1756	Heubach	St. Wolfgang				New building; not received
1764	Junkersdorf (Königsberg in Bavaria)	St. Vitus		I / P	10	Attribution, new building; Housing received
1767	Zeilfeld	St. Oswald		II / P	19th	New building, largely preserved
1767	Brno / Thür.	Brno village church				New building; not received

literature

• Maren Goltz: Musicians' Lexicon of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen (1680-1918) . Meiningen 2008, pp. 72-73 (PDF).
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 58-59 .
• Torsten Sterzik: Two Organ Builders - One School. For the 300th birthday of F. Volckland and Chr. Dotzauer. In: Thüringer Orgelsommer eV (Ed.): Thüringer Orgeljournal 1996. Arnstadt 1996, pp. 27-50.
• Ingward Ullrich: Hildburghausen musician. A contribution to the music history of the city of Hildburghausen. Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2003, ISBN 978-3-86180-129-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 58.
2. ^ Goltz: Musicians' Lexicon of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. 2008, p. 72.
3. ↑ Sterzig: Two Organ Builders - One School. 1996, p. 28.
4. ^ Ullrich: Hildburghausen musicians. 2003, p. 36.
5. ^ Johann Georg Henne , accessed on October 22, 2017.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 59.