Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell

Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell (* December 1737 in Würzburg , † March 23, 1818 in Rastatt ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell learned the organ building trade from 1751 to 1757 from the master Johann Konrad Brandenstein in Stadtamhof . Later he stayed with Johann Philipp Seuffert in Würzburg. From 1758 to 1766 he worked together with his eldest son Johann Ignaz Seuffert , citizen and organ builder of Offenburg , from whom the organs in the church of Alsheim (1764) and in the castle church Rastatt (1765) have been preserved. In 1767 he became a citizen and organ builder in Rastatt together with Johann Ignaz Seuffert, and in 1787 he was appointed court organ builder.

The organ in the church of the St. Blasien Monastery, built by Johann Andreas Silbermann under Prince Abbot Martin Gerbert from 1771 to 1775 , was expanded by him in 1807 in the course of secularization and moved to the Stephanskirche in Karlsruhe in 1813 , where it was destroyed by the effects of the war in 1944.

His three sons Franz Lorenz Stieffell (* August 10, 1781; † January 20, 1835), Christian Valentin Stieffell (* December 4, 1787; † October 5, 1861) and Max Ulrich Stieffell (* October 12, 1790; † 16. March 1860) continued his workshop in Rastatt from 1818 to 1860.

Organ works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1760	Offenburg	Holy Cross Church				Built by Johann Ignaz Seuffert and Ferdinand Stieffell, renovated in 2001 by Claudius Winterhalter .
1767	Kauffenheim ( Alsace )	St. Jean Baptiste		I / P
1774	Zuzenhausen	St. Sebastian		I.		On August 30, 1864, the parish of Bietigheim bought the organ from the church there (today the cemetery chapel) for 610 guilders.
1776	Bauerbach	Catholic Church				1776 for the Catholic Church in Karlsruhe as a Capuziner organ , transferred by Stieffel to Bauerbach on February 9, 1815 and provided with three puttis by Joseph Hörr of the former St. Blasien organ at the request of the community . Renovated in 1964.
1776	Ettenheim	St. Bartholomew
1777	Lauterbourg ( Alsace )	Sainte-Trinité
1777	Reichshoffen	St. Michel				Built by Stieffell and Franz Schethel according to the contract of 19th Xbris 1774 to be erected on June 24th 1777 . Rebuilt in 1962.
1778	Kappelwindeck	Marienkirche				Ordered for Bühl on February 22, 1778. Conversion by Anton Kiene in 1901 to Kappelwindeck. Expanded in 1928 by Xaver Mönch, in 1965 by Johannes Klais .
1779	Endingen	St. Peter		I / P	22nd
1781	Seelbach	St. Nicholas			31
1784-1786	Langensteinbach (Karlsbad)	Protestant Ludwig Church				1871 Relocation from the Karlsruhe Palace Chapel to Langensteinbach.
1792	Schwerzen	St. John the Baptist				Built for Forbach in 1792 , to Ottenau in 1890 , installation in Schwerzen by Otto Mönch in 1958 , restoration by Fischer & Krämer Orgelbau in 1971
1794	Kuhbach (Lahr)	Visitation of the Virgin Mary				Relocation from Liedolsheim near Karlsruhe to Kuhbach
1819	Ichenheim	St. Nicholas				The organ was restored in 1967 by the Manufacture d'Orgues Muhleisen . Trumpet bass throats in St. Fides in Grafenhausen
1819	Ettlingen	St. Martin
1824	Rastatt	St. Alexander		III / P	38
1828	Oppenau	St. John Baptist		III / P	43	Restoration by M. Welte & Sons
1834	Ötigheim	St. Michael		II
1834	Niederschopfheim	St. Brigitta		II / P
1834	Iffezheim	St. Brigitta		II / P	24
1843	Winden (Sinzheim)	St. John Nepomuk		I / P	5	Restoration by Matz & Luge
1845	Sandweier	St. Catherine		II / P	29	Originally 15 registers, renovated in 1940 by the organ builder Carl Hess from Karlsruhe-Durlach, expansion to 29 registers
1853	Niederbühl	St. Laurence				Inscription in the main valve box of the manual drawer: "Organ built in 1852/53 by the Stieffell brothers in Rastatt in place of the organ made by the same in 1818, which burned on July 8, 1849 during the bombardment of Niederbühl and the church."

literature

• Bernd Sulzmann : The Stieffell family of organ builders and their creations in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Acta Organologica, 7, 1973, pp. 106-153.
• Bernd Sulzmann: Historical organs in Baden. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3795404215 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ From the diaries of Johann Andreas Silbermann it can be seen that Stieffell never worked for Silbermann. See: Marc Schaefer (Ed.): The Silbermann Archive. The handwritten estate of the organ maker Johann Andreas Silbermann (1712–1783) . Winterthur 1994, p. 320f.
2. ^ Organs in Alsace online
3. ↑ The organ on the parish's homepage online
4. ↑ Monuments historiques. Retrieved December 17, 2013 . 
5. ↑ A round, full sound. Badische Zeitung, accessed on December 17, 2013 . 
6. ↑ The Stieffell organ in the Ludwigskirche. Retrieved December 17, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Sophisticated rhythm. Badische Zeitung , accessed on December 17, 2013 . 
8. ^ Bernd Sulzmann: Historical organs in Baden. P. 178.
9. ^ Iffezheim organ. Iffezheim, accessed December 21, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Winden organ. Retrieved April 12, 2014 . 
11. ↑ Heimatbuch Sandweier.
12. ↑ quoted from Wilhelm Kenz: Niederbühl near Rastatt: Catholic Parish Church of St. Laurentius , Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1972 (Small Art Guide No. 972), p. 15. Similar with Bernd Sulzmann: Historische Orgeln in Baden. P. 214.