Johann Christoph Pfennig (organ builder)

Johann Christoph Pfennig (* around 1700 ; † after 1761 ) was a German organist and organ builder in Wahrenbrück , Sonnewalde and Calau in Lower Lusatia .

He is to be distinguished from Johann Christian Pfennig , who was an organ builder in Kröbeln.

Life

Johann Christoph Pfennig was an organist and organ builder in Wahrenbrück . In 1730 he became the organist in Sonnewalde bestallt . In 1734 the church and school burned down there. From 1737 Pfennig was organist in Calau . A few new organs and repairs are known up to 1743, after that only one renovation in 1761.

family

• Johann Christian Pfennig (1706–1787), probably brother or son, was an organ builder in Kröbeln near Liebenwerda
• Johann Gottlieb Pfennig (1822–27 March 1788), son, was initially a musician and organ builder in Calau, was appointed organist in Spremberg by the magistrate in 1752 and confirmed by Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony
• Johann Christoph Pfennig (jun.), Submitted the father's (?) Repair offer for Calau in 1761, also a repair in Lübbenau (1781?), Received no further news.

Works (selection)

Johann Christoph Pfennig

Johann Christoph Pfennig is known to have had two new organs, four attributions, a contribution to a new building, as well as a renovation, two maintenance orders and another repair. Parts of the ascribed organ in Gehren (before Finsterwalde) as well as the ascribed brochures in Gahro and Lugau have been preserved .

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1730	Arnsnesta	Village church		I / P	6th	not received
around 1733/1737	Finsterwalde	St. Trinity		I / P	13	Attribution, moved to Gehren in 1863 , where the prospectus and parts of the pipework and mechanics have been preserved
1733	Gahro	Village church				Attribution, prospectus received
around 1733/37? (before 1848)	Lugau near Doberlug	Village church				Attribution, prospectus received
1741	Luebbenau	St. Nikolai		I / P	17th	Collaboration with Johann Jacob Köpler , with son Johann Gottlieb Pfennig, prospectus received
1742	Sonnewalde	St. Mary				Presumption, in rebuilt church, not preserved
1743	Luebben	Hospital Church (Hainkirche)		I / P	8th	not received

More work

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1730-1734	Sonnewalde	St. Mary				Care contract, burned down in 1734, new building in 1742
1731 – before 1764	Luebben	City Church of St. Nikolai				Care contract, continued from 1764 by son Johann Gottlieb Pfennig
1731, 1741	Luckau	St. Nikolai				Repairs
1761	Calau	City Church				Reconstruction, repair offer by son Johann Christoph Pfennig jun. made

Johann Gottlieb Pfennig

Johann Gottlieb Pfennig is known to have two new organs and one who worked on the new building, which have not been preserved, as well as repairs and maintenance contracts. Mix-ups with individual works by Johann Christian Pfennig from Kröbeln are possible.

New organs

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1741	Luebbenau	St. Nikolai		I / P	17th	Collaboration with Johann Jacob Köpler, with father Johann Christoph Pfennig, prospectus received
1770	Sorno near Finsterwalde	Village church		I / P	11	??, previously (erroneously?) assigned to Johann Christian Pfennig, not preserved
1783-1787	Spremberg	Kreuzkirche				not received
around 1785 (?)	Krieschow near Cottbus	Village church				not received

More work

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
since 1755	Spremberg	Kreuzkirche				Nursing order
1762	Forest	City Church				Repairs, or by Johann Christian Pfennig?
1764	Luebben	City Church of St. Nikolai				Foster contract and mood, father's successor
1769	Göllnitz near Finsterwalde	Village church				Repairs
1781	Luebbenau	St. Nikolai		I / P	17th	Repairs, with brother Johann Christoph Pfennig jun.?

literature

• Christhard Kirchner, Albrecht Bönisch: Johann Christoph Pfennig. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. p. 414.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church of Gehren. In: Langengrassau parish office. Accessed August 31, 2019 .