Johann Ernst Hähnel

Johann Ernst Hähnel (born April 17, 1697 in Leubsdorf , † probably January 12, 1777 in Wermsdorf ) was a German organ builder who worked in Saxony in the 18th century .

life and work

Johann Ernst Hähnel was born the son of the schoolmaster and organist Abraham Hähnel and his wife Anna Rosina and was baptized on April 20, 1697. It is not known where he learned organ building. In Saxony he is referred to several times as a "foreigner". On July 4, 1718, he married Johanna Catharina, the daughter of the Dresden court organ builder Andreas Tamitius , in the Marienkirche in Pirna . Hähnel worked for more than a year (1719/1720) in the organ building workshop of his brother-in-law, Johann Gottfried Tamitius . The couple had their daughter Sophia Juliana on August 31, 1721.

Hähnel worked independently in Meißen around 1725 and in Hubertusburg from around 1756 . In 1741 he was named “Königl. Polish and electoral prince Saxon court and country organ builder ”appointed. In his second marriage, Hähnel was married to the considerably younger Juliane Dorothea Wintzler (born April 23, 1729), who brought her illegitimate daughter Christiane Juliane Wintzler into the marriage. The marriage took place on April 3, 1755 in Kaditz. It is believed that it is Hahnel's biological daughter. Hähnel stayed in Kaditz in 1751/1752 because he was building an organ there. In addition, the daughter, who married Hähnel's pupil Johann Georg Friedlieb Zöllner in Wermsdorf on November 1, 1778 , was referred to as Hähnel's legitimate daughter.

By 1765, Hähnel had built almost 50 new organs. The three-part, sometimes five-part prospectus in the forms of the Rococo is characteristic . Two pipe fields nestle against the raised and wide middle section, which often end in volutes . In addition to organs, Hähnel also built pianos. His construction of a “Cymbal royal” led from 1730 to 1734 to a legal dispute with Gottfried Silbermann . Since the instrument resembled the “Cimbal d'amour” invented by Silbermann around 1720, he thought it was a replica. The interior musical work of a porcelain carillon , which Johann Joachim KÄNDER made in 1736/1737, comes from Hähnel .

Despite its high-quality organ buildings, its title and its importance for the organ landscape of Saxony , Hähnel lived in poor conditions all his life. His group of students worked in northern Saxony and beyond. His students include Johann Ephraim Hübner (1713–1781), Ferdinand Weber (1715–1784), Johann Dietrich (1716–1758), Johann Gottfriedträger, Johann Friedrich Ludewig († before 1769) and Johann Daniel Ranft (1727–1804) . Adam Gottfried Oehme and David Schubert were Hahnel's journeymen. Hähnel was buried on January 14, 1777 at the age of 80 in Wermsdorf. After his death in 1777, Johann Georg Friedlieb Zöllner took over the workshop in the hunting lodge.

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates a pedal that is only attached. The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers . The last column provides information on the state of preservation and links with further information. Italic writing indicates that the organ is no longer preserved or only the historical case.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1719	Bad Schandau	St. John's Church		II / P	27	Collaboration in Tamitius' new organ; not received
1723-1724	Middle Aida	Village church		I / P	12	New building; largely preserved
1724-1725	Steinbach ( Bad Lausick )	Village church		II / P	14th	New building; largely preserved
1725	Moritzburg	Moritzburg Castle				not received
1730	Ottendorf-Okrilla	Ev. church				Burned after a lightning strike in 1873
1734-1735	Meissen	St. Afra				not received
1737	Brockwitz (Coswig)	Brockwitz Church		II / P	18th	New building; Replaced in 1906, housing received in modified form
1737	Muhlberg	Neustadt Church		I / P	11	New building; not received
1738	Friedrichstadt (Dresden)	Matthew Church		II / P	27	Modification; Replaced in 1861
1738-1739	Röhrsdorf	St. Bartholomew				New building; not received
1740	Deutschebora	Village church				New building
1740	Struppen	Village church		I / P	12	Modification; 1896 reconstruction and 1927 extension by a second manual by Gebr. Jehmlich ; largely preserved
1742-1743	Bear stone	City Church		II / P	22nd	New building; received some registers
1742-1743	Break	Village church		I.	8th	originally probably for Bärenstein Castle , implemented several times
1743	Zehista	Castle Church		I.	8th	New building; 1953 new pipework, only case, wind chest and keyboard preserved
1744	Naundorf (Saxony)	St. Catherine's				New building
1745	Leuben (Oschatz)	church				New building
1744-1746	Oschatz	St. Aegidien Church		II / P	31	New building; not received
1748-1749	Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)	Marienkirche				New building; not received
1750	Etzoldshain ( Bad Lausick )	Ev. church		I / P	9	Canceled in 1917
1750	Wickershain ( Geithain )	St. Mary
1751-1753	Dresden - Kaditz	Emmaus Church (Dresden)		II / P	25th	not received
1754-1755	Pausitz	Village church				New building; Housing received
1756	Schrebitz	Wenceslas Church				New building; Prospectus received
1756	Staucha	St. Johannis				New building; not received
1756	Hohenwussen ( Naundorf )	Ev. church		I / P	11	not received
1770	Flour turret	church				New building; not received
1770-1771	Krippehna	St. Lukas (Krippehna) - there also disposition of the organ		I / P	14th	Expanded to II / P / 16 in 1869; 2015–2018 restoration to the state of 1771 (I / P / 14), Kristian Wegscheider organ workshop, Dresden
1773	Luppa	Ev. church				New building; not received
1774	Mautitz	Village church				New building; not received
1775	Tragnitz	St. Pancras				New building; not received
around 1775	Merkwitz	Village church				New building; not received

literature

• Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory . VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 .
• Ulrich Eichler: New findings on the organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel . In: Ars Organi . Vol. 64, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 133-136 (PDF file; 535 kB).
• Ulrich Eichler: The Saxon organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel (1697–1777). Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86729-213-9 .
• Frank-Harald Greß : The organs of Gottfried Silbermann (= publications of the Society of Organ Friends, 177 ). 3. Edition. Sandstein, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-930382-50-7 .
• Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .

Web links

• Ulrich Eichler: Hähnel, Johann Ernst . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eichler: New findings on the organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel . 2016, p. 1 (PDF file; 535 kB).
2. ^ Pape, Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. 2012, p. 129.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Eichler: New findings on the organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel . 2016, p. 2 (PDF file; 535 kB).
4. ↑ Greß: Gottfried Silbermann's organs . 2012, pp. 24, 31.
5. ↑ Greß: Gottfried Silbermann's organs . 2012, p. 12.
6. ^ Eichler: The Saxon organ builder Johann Ernst Hähnel. 2018, p. 17.
7. ↑ Hubertusburg Castle - 1770 on wermsdorf.de, accessed on 17 April 2018th
8. ^ ^{A b} Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . The musical instrument, Frankfurt / Main / Leipzig 1980, p. 223 .
9. ^ Organ in Krippehna , accessed on September 2, 2018.