Johann Conrad Wegmann

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Johann Conrad Wegmann (also: Hans Conrad Weegmann ) (baptized June 22, 1699 in Affeltrangen ; † October 4, 1738 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Swiss organ builder.

Life

He was baptized on June 22, 1699 as the son of master carpenter Hans Joachim Wegmann and his wife Margreth. He probably learned organ building from Johann Jakob Bommer in Weingarten TG . Around 1727 he deepened his knowledge with Christian Vater in Hanover, who conveyed Arp Schnitger's influence on Wegmann's early works. On August 5, 1732 he married Anna Maria Hedwig Stamm. On March 28, 1732 he became a court organ builder in Darmstadt and held the privileges for the Upper County of Katzenelnbogen and the Lordship of Eppstein . Wegmann founded an organ builder dynasty that shaped the organ landscape of Hesse for generations . Johann Christian Köhler did an apprenticeship with him. When Wegmann died, Köhler married Wegmann's widow on October 20, 1739 and took over his workshop and his privileges in Hessen-Darmstadt. After Köhler's death, his son Philipp Ernst Wegmann continued the company. The grandson Johann Benedikt Ernst Wegmann first appeared as a student of the master craftsman Johann Friedrich Meynecke, but later took over the workshop.

List of works

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1736 Darmstadt City Church Repair of the organ by Johann Anton Meyer (1686); not received
1737 Woersdorf Ev. church I / P 11 Not received
1738 Frankfurt am Main Barefoot Church III / P 41 Completion of the organ by Johann Christian Köhler; not received

literature

  • Hans Martin Balz : organs and organ builder in the area of ​​the former Hessian province of Starkenburg. A contribution to the history of organ building (=  studies on Hessian music history . Volume 3 ). Bärenreiter second-hand bookshop, Kassel 1969.
  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 6 ). tape 1 : Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs . Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: 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, Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: 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: Wegmann, Johann Conrad . In: Music in the past and present . 1st edition. tape 14 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1968, p. 364 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Bösken in Affoltern am Albis : Franz Bösken: Wegmann, Johann Conrad . In: Music in the past and present . 1st edition. tape 14 . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1968, p. 364 .
  2. ^ Hermann Fischer : Wegmann, Johann Conrad . In: Frankfurter Personenlexikon , accessed on April 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Balz: organs and organ builders in the area of ​​the former Hessian province of Starkenburg. 1969, p. 151.
  4. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, p. 33.
  5. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 202.
  6. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 767.
personal data
SURNAME Wegmann, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weegmann, Hans Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH baptized June 22, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Affeltrangen
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1738
Place of death Frankfurt am Main