Johann Friedrich Schäffer

The organ in Homberg (1735)

Johann Friedrich Schäffer (also Schäfer or Scheffer ) (* after 1685 , † after 1748 ) was an organ builder from the Baroque period who worked in Hesse.

Life

Schäffer was born as the son of the organ builder Jost Friedrich Schäffer and his wife Maria Juliana from Langensalza , who settled in Eschwege in 1677 . The year of birth is assumed to be 1686 or later. In 1731 Schäffer settled in Witzenhausen, but changed his place of residence several times. In 1732, Johann Friedrich Schäffer's first organ building activity is documented. When he married the widow of the court organ builder Johann Friedrich Stertzing from Kassel on October 28, 1732 in Wolfhagen , he may have continued his workshop. Two sons were baptized in Kassel in 1732 and 1736. Another son was baptized in Wolfhagen in 1739, where his wife was buried on April 17, 1741. In their second marriage, Schäffer married Dorothea Elisabeth Hagenbusch on May 13, 1744 in Korbach. The daughter, born in 1745, is buried a year later. In December of the same year a son was baptized in Gellershausen and in 1748 a daughter in Wolfhagen, where a son was confirmed in 1750. Schäffer's last activity as an organ builder is documented in 1748.

plant

Schäffer's works are richly decorated with veils above the pipe fields and mostly have "organ ears" on the sides. Larger works have a breastwork and, as in Homberg and Korbach, have a broad prospectus. The main work is designed according to the "Central German normal type" with three pipe towers and single-storey flat fields in between. Ornamental fields can appear above the flat fields. The pedal mechanism is housed in lateral round towers. The factory in Wetterburg, which may have been built for Arolsen Castle, has an unusual design : two large round towers frame a flat field that is closed off by the princely coat of arms of Waldeck-Pyrmont . Johann Philipp Schellhase is considered a student of Schäffers.

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1732/33, 1735	Homberg (Efze)	City Church of St. Mary		II / P		1732/33 new building, 1735 expansion by 4 registers; only richly decorated prospectus by Josef Dietrich Göhring in Regency style preserved (today III / P / 32) → organ
1736	Melsungen	Melsungen town church				not received
1737	Acquisitions	Kaufungen Collegiate Church				Repair or remodeling; Replaced in 1802
1740	Bad Arolsen (?)	Arolsen Castle (?)		I / P	7th	Possibly transferred to Wetterburg in 1846; 1862/1863 extensively rebuilt by Jakob Vogt; only received prospectus
1742-1744	Korbach	St. Nikolai		I / P		1982 New building by Dieter Noeske behind the preserved prospect, which is similar to that of Homberg
1747	Wolfsanger	John's Church				Extension by a pedal; not received
1747/1748	Wolfhagen	City Church		II / P		Reconstruction of the organ by Johann Friedrich Stertzing (1725); Prospectus received

literature

• Dieter Großmann: Kurhessen as an organ landscape . In: Acta Organologica . tape 1 , 1967, p. 69-112 .
• Dieter Großmann: organs and organ builders in Hessen . 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 (contributions to Hessian history 12).
• Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller : Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak , Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 144-202 .
• Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builder in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) . Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 (publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 43).

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of organs in Hessen

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 185 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse) . Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 281 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 43).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 186 .
4. ^ Dieter Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hessen . 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 , pp. 52 (Contributions to Hessian History 12).
5. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 160 .
6. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 166 .