Johann Friedrich Wender

Johann Friedrich Wender (* 1655 in Dörna , Thuringia (baptized December 6, 1655), † June 13, 1729 there ) was a German organ builder who had his workshop in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .

Life

Wender worked closely with Johann Sebastian Bach . J. S. Bach got his first position as organist at the New Church in Arnstadt in 1703 , after he had accepted the newly built organ there by Wender. In 1707 Bach moved to Mühlhausen, the place where Wender worked.

student

Well-known students of Johann Friedrich Wender are Johann Christian Dauphin , Johann Jacob John , his son Christian Friedrich Wender and his son-in-law Johann Nikolaus Becker .

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1689-1691	Mulhouse	Divi Blasii		II / P	29	Extending partial new building
1695	Seligenstadt	abbey		II / P	31
1699-1703	Arnstadt	New Church		II / P	29	Construction of a new organ for the New Church, the successor to the burned-down Bonifatius Church, today's Johann Sebastian Bach Church.
1700	Weimar	City Church				restoration
1708	Mulhouse	Divi Blasii		III / P	38	Reconstruction based on suggestions from J. S. Bach
1714	Erfurt	Severikirche		II / P	24	Prospectus received
1714-1717	Merseburg	Cathedral and castle church		IV / P	66	Repair and completion of the organ begun in 1695 by Zacharias Theissner
1716-1722	Merseburg	St. Maximi				New building, on 11./12. In May 1722 by the Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau from Leipzig and Merseburg church music director Georg Friedrich Kauffmann tested

literature

• Dieter Großmann: Wender, Johann Friedrich . In: Friedrich Blume (Ed.): The music in past and present . Volume 14. Bärenreiter, Kassel [a. a.] 1968
• Wieland Meinhold : The Mühlhausen organ builder Johann Friedrich Wender and his work in the area of ​​central German baroque organ building . In: Mühlhauser contributions . tape 10 , 1987, pp. 36-41 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 331 .
• Christoph Wolff, Markus Zepf: The organs of JS Bach - A manual . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02407-0 .