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 |
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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 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wender, Johann Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | baptized December 6, 1655 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dörna , Thuringia |
DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1729 |
Place of death | Dörna , Thuringia |