Johann Friedrich Rhode

Johann Friedrich Rhode († after 1769 ) was a German organ builder in Danzig .

Life

The name indicates an origin of the family from Thuringia. From 1726 to 1746 Johann Friedrich Rhode was a teacher and organist in Praust near Danzig. It was probably the same. His son Gottfried Emanuel Rhode succeeded in these offices.

Johann Friedrich Rhode was probably a student of Andreas Hildebrandt in Danzig, which is indicated by a similar construction of the organs. In 1749 he was a journeyman with Christoph Heinrich Obuch . He then settled in Danzig and built pianos and organs. Two pianos by JF Rhode in Dantzig , which were available in Elbing in 1928 , and four new organs from 1760 to 1769 are known.

Gottlieb Paschke was possibly a student of Rhode.

Organs

The following new organs are known from Johann Friedrich Rhode.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1760-1761	Danzig	St. John		II / P	30th	Small organ, replaced by Wittek in 1912
1861-1862	Ohra	Protestant church		II / P	20th	Burned in 1813
1762-1763	Rambeltsch	Hospital Church		I.	9	Replaced by Schuricht in 1862
1765-1769	Danzig	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	40	later repaired and rebuilt, destroyed in 1945

A presumed new building in 1755 in the Nikolaikirche in Danzig was probably carried out by Friedrich Rudolf Dalitz.

literature

• Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume 1. Weidlich 1984. pp. 284–294.