Johann Conrad Bürgy

Johann Conrad Bürgy (born November 6, 1721 in Schaffhausen , Switzerland ; † April 17, 1792 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a Swiss - German organ builder.

Life

The organ and instrument maker Johann Conrad Bürgy, originally from Schaffhausen , Switzerland , worked in Nieder-Florstadt from 1754 as a journeyman to the organ builder Johann Friedrich Syer . In 1757 he married his daughter Margaretha Magdalena. Bürgy settled in Homburg in Hesse (today Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) in 1763 and ran his own workshop there.

The case of its largest organ, a three-manual work, has been preserved in the landgraves' castle church of Bad Homburg. His last work, which was completed by his sons and whose prospectus is still preserved, was created in the St. Ursula Church in neighboring Oberursel .

Three of his sons worked in the father's workshop from the 1780s and continued the business after their father's death under the name of Gebrüder Bürgy :

• Philipp Heinrich (1759-1824)
• Johann Ludwig Wilhelm (1761–1838)
• Johann Georg (1771–1841)

plant

14 new organs by Bürgy are proven. He also built two-manual and one three-manual new buildings. The pedal is always self-employed not only attached even with small organs and. While the regional country organ builders mostly preferred traditional five-axis brochures in which towers and flat fields alternated, Bürgy was inspired by the Hanau-based organ builders Joseph Carl Großwaldt and Christoph Theodor Petter and the Frankfurt organ builders Köhler / Wegmann . They loosened up the brochures in a creative way with curved harp fields and stacked pipe fields with opposing shapes. The register names imported to Hanau by Großwaldt from Silesia and Poland such as Flaut minor and Flaut maior , Praestanda and Quintviol were used by Bürgy in his organs. The flaut minor and flaut maior in particular became characteristic of his instruments from the second half of the 18th century. His wooden pipes have an (almost) square floor plan and, as with Syer, a profiled projection edge. Bürgy liked to use the Salicional 8 ′ register in his organs. Tongue registers were only used in large or city organs.

List of works

Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved or only the historical 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 special features.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1764	Rod on the mountain	Ev. church		I / P	10	New building; Replaced in 1912
1765-1766	Rodheim before the height	Little church		I / P	10	New building; Destroyed in a church fire in 1901
1768	Frankfurt-Bockenheim	French Reformed Church		II / P	17th	New building; Sold in 1791 to the Evangelical Church in Diedenbergen and received there; Restored in 2018
1778	Rodheim before the height	Ref. Church				New building; not received
1783	Wehrheim	Protestant church		I / P	16	New building; largely preserved
1784	Ossenheim	Ev. church		I / P	9	New building; Replaced in 1908 by Förster & Nicolaus
1782-1787	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Castle Church		III / P	38	New building; Prospectus preserved, organ work reconstructed
1787 (1767?)	Biebergemünd - Bieber	Lower church		I / P	5	New building; 2003 Reconstruction of the prospectus by Andreas Schmidt based on a photo of the organ in Birstein by Peter Schleich; Remains of prospectuses received
1787	Langen-Bergheim	Ev. church		I / P	12	New building; 1870 extension conversion by Jacob Köhler to II / P / 15; Housing and some registers preserved
1789	Düdelsheim	Ev. church				New building; not received
1789	Rohrbach (Büdingen)	Ev. church		I / P	10	New building; largely preserved
1789	Wöllstadt	Ev. church				New building; Replaced in 1834
1789-1790	Ober-Eschbach	Ev. church		I / P	8th	New building; Replaced in 1849
1789-1793	Oberursel (Taunus)	St. Ursula		II / P	26th	New building completed by Philipp Heinrich Bürgy; Replaced by Klais organ in 1923 ; 1960 New building by Förster & Nicolaus ; Prospectus received
1790s	Upper clover	St. Michaelis		I / P	10	Attribution; completed after his death by his sons; later expanded by two registers on I / P / 12, largely preserved

There is also a fortepiano from 1780 in the Otto Heuss Bad Kreuznach collection .

literature

• Hans Martin Balz , Maria Bringezu-Paschen: Johann Conrad Bürgy, organ and instrument maker zu Homburg vdH - a contribution to the history of organ building in the 18th century, with a report on the Wehrheim organ (=  messages from the Association for History and Regional Studies in Bad Homburg . band 31 ). Bad Homburg vdH 1970.
• Martin Balz: Bürgy, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part band 3 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Sp. 1296-1298 .
• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• 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 .
• Krystian Skoczowski : The organ building family Zinck. A contribution to the research of organ building in the Wetterau and the Kinzig valley in the 18th century. Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, ISBN 978-3-89846-824-4 .

Web links

• Hermann Fischer: Music and Musicians on the Middle Rhine 2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skoczowski: The organ builder family Zinck. 2018, p. 32.
2. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 1: A – L. 1988, p. 13.
3. ^ Organ of the Bad Homburg Castle Church , accessed on April 15, 2020.
4. ^ Organ in Oberursel , accessed on April 15, 2020.
5. ↑ Skoczowski: The organ builder family Zinck. 2018, p. 33.
6. ↑ Skoczowski: The organ builder family Zinck. 2018, pp. 258, 261, 269, 298.
7. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, pp. 814-816.
8. ↑ Skoczowski: The organ builder family Zinck. 2018, pp. 33, 295.
9. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 793 f.
10. ^ Organ in Wehrheim , accessed on April 15, 2020.
11. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 767 f.
12. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, pp. 41-44.
13. ↑ Bürgy organ in the castle church Bad Homburg (1787/1989) , accessed on April 15, 2020.
14. ^ Organ in Bieber , accessed on January 15, 2018.
15. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 1: A – L. 1988, pp. 540-543.
16. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 820 f.
17. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 2: M-Z. 1988, p. 707.
18. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, pp. 696-702.
19. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 683.