Johann husband

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Johann Husband (also: Ehmann or Ehrmann ) (* before 1638; † November 27, 1670 in Ulm ) was a South German musical instrument and organ builder in the 17th century.

Life

Little is known about the origin and education of Johann Husband. The Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online lists the places Dinkelsbühl , Ulm , Stuttgart and Kirchhaslach as its places of work . In this source 1638 is given as the year of its first mention. Husband had his center of life in Ulm since 1638 and became a citizen of the city in 1649. However, he worked in southern Germany as far as the Stuttgart area. Only a few are known of completely new organs; Most of his work, in addition to building a number of house organs, probably consisted of repairs to existing instruments. Georg Brunner from Rothenburg ob der Tauber was one of his students . His brother Hans Georg's husband initially worked in Ulm, was appointed court organ builder in Stuttgart in 1650 and is documented with new organs in Sindelfingen (1649), Ebingen (1657), Balingen (1661) and Stuttgart (1668–1669).

Johann husband died in Ulm at the end of November 1670. The short entry in the death register of the evangelical minster community in Ulm does not contain any information about how old he was or whether he had started a family.

Works

Engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder Ä. :
“The organ in the church for salvation. Trinity in Ulm "(1643)

The organ in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Ulm

In 1786 Johann Herkules Haid describes the Husband organ in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche Ulm

In Ulm in 1641, the most famous work by Johann Menschann was created, the new organ in the Trinity Church . The local researcher Johann Herkules Haid described this Husband organ in his book Ulm with his area in 1786 as follows:

“Towards evening the organ, which stands on two pillars, is… Whether it should have cost only 473 florins according to the contract: it still has 15 stops and is divided into 2 main works. She also has two Cympels and Vogelsang. The bellows are 14 shoes long and 3 ½ wide. "

- Johann-Herkules Haid (1786)

The instrument was therefore on the west side of the church building. It was supported by two pillars and, in terms of design and location, was a so-called parapet organ . According to Haid's description, it had 15  registers , which were divided into two identical works , as well as two cymbals and the register “Vogelsang” . The bellows were 14  feet (4.20 m) long and 3½ feet (1.05 m) wide. The new organ was not built at the same time as the church, which was consecrated in 1621. It was only made possible afterwards with substantial support from Ulm councilor Joseph Furttenbach and was only " brought about in the most troubled times of war ". The instrument was renovated and repaired in 1714 by the Nördlingen organ builder Nicolaus Prescher and again in 1809 by the Ulm organ builder Schmahl. In 1857 it was decided to build a completely new building; the original instrument has therefore not been preserved.

The appearance of the Ulmer Husband organ, however, is due to a work by the engraver Matthäus Merian the Elder. Ä. handed down to posterity. He immortalized the instrument with his engraving The organ in the church for salvation. Dreyfaltigkeit in Ulm , which he made two years after its completion in 1643. In addition to the pillars carrying the instrument described by Haid, the illustration shows the organ's prospectus , which was richly decorated with wood carvings. The depictions of putti are particularly numerous , and in the upper area two angel figures making music frame the highest part of the structure, which is crowned by a harp- playing King David . On the same sheet, Merian also depicted a “floor plan of the box” with a measuring scale. Due to the publication in Merian's large compilation Topographia Sueviae (German: Topography of Swabia ), the image of the Ulmer Menschann organ became widespread and became very well known. It is one of the earliest engravings with an organ motif.

More work

For the year 1643, an inscription on a small piece of wood from the bellows of the previous organ, discovered by chance one hundred years later when an organ was built in the Swabian town of Babenhausen- Kirchhaslach, suggests that it was also built by Husband. The inscription read:

"In 1643, on April 18th, this bellows was closed by myself, Johann husband organ maker, currently in Ulm."

Three years later, in 1646, husband repaired the organ bellows in Biberach, St. Martin for 30 guilders. Caspar Eckstein from Weil der Stadt had created a new work here in 1590 after his new organ had been struck by lightning from 1581 to 1582 in 1584.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church book of the Evangelical Minster Community of Ulm, deceased in 1670, ancestry.de, accessed on November 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Johann Husband in the database of the Bavarian State Library , bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de, accessed on November 29, 2016.
  3. ^ A b Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders. 1994, p. 79.
  4. ^ Helmut Völkl : Organs in Württemberg. Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7751-1090-9 , pp. 18, 256.
  5. ^ Christoph Roller: City Church Balingen . Ed .: Evangelical parish city church Balingen. 5000th edition. Printing and publishing house Hermann Daniel, Balingen October 1990. , p. 30
  6. ↑ a b Johann Herkules Haid: Ulm with its area. Verlag Christian Ulrich Wagner sen., Ulm 1786, p. 67. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ Michael Ladenburger: The queen of instruments . Verlag Beethoven-Haus, 2000, ISBN 978-3-881-88061-9 , p. 59. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  8. ^ Herbert Huber: Music care at the Fuggerhof Babenhausen (1554-1836) . Wissner, 2003, ISBN 978-3-896-39393-7 , p. 34. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Manecke, Johannes Mayr: Historical organs in Upper Swabia. The district of Biberach. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7954-1069-X , pp. 14, 64.
personal data
SURNAME Husband, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehmann, Johann; Ehrmann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musical instrument and organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1670
Place of death Ulm