Johann Eberhard Walcker

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Johann Eberhard Walcker (born April 15, 1756 in Cannstatt ; † 1843 ) was a German organ builder . The ramified family of organ builders Walcker goes back to him and still exists today under the name Walcker-Mayer.

Life

Johann Eberhard was the son of the day laborer Jakob Leonhard Walcker. In 1780 he founded his own workshop as a carpenter and organ builder. He was married to Elisabetha Katharina. The marriage had six children. The son Eberhard Friedrich Walcker , born in 1794 , initially worked in his father's workshop and founded his own workshop in Ludwigsburg in 1821 , which made the name Walcker widely known. The daughter Maria Katharina Walker, born in 1799, married Martin Andreas Laukhuff, organ builder of Johann Eberhard and employee of Eberhard Friedrich Walker. Martin Andreas Laukhuff went into business for himself in 1823 and thus laid the foundation for the Aug. Laukhuff Orgelbau company.

plant

Walcker built around seven new organs in the course of his life . In addition, he and Abbé Vogler rebuilt an organ . He designed his first organ prospectus for the Ludwigsburg garrison church, his largest organ was that of the Cannstatter Stadtkirche. The case of an organ he built in the Ulrichskirche in Eberstadt near Weinsberg has been preserved to this day.

literature

  • Moosmann / Schäfer: Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1794–1872) , Musikwissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 1994
  • Gotthilf Kleemann: The organ makers and their work in the former Duchy of Württemberg
  • Johannes Fischer : The Walcker family of organ builders in Ludwigsburg. The people - the times - the work . Afterword Theodor Heuss . Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1966 (first 1943)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ history. (No longer available online.) Web presence of Aug. Laukhuff, archived from the original on April 15, 2012 ; Retrieved April 8, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.laukhuff.de
  2. ↑ a b History of the Walcker family at www.walcker.com
personal data
SURNAME Walcker, Johann Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH 1843