Johann Georg Aichgasser

Johann Georg Aichgasser (* 1701 in Hechingen ; † December 23, 1767 in Überlingen on Lake Constance) was an organ builder from Upper Swabia .

Life

Johann Georg Aichgasser was born in 1701 in Hechingen in the Hohenzollern region. The Aichgasser family originally comes from the village of Boll , which is now a district of Hechingen. The Aichgassers have been there since 1337. His parents were the shoemaker Jakob Aichgasser and Magdalena (née Buckenmaier). There are no clues as to where he learned the art of organ building . He married Maria Magdalena Frey on September 20, 1734.

He carried out his first known work in 1722 for St. Leodegar in Gammertingen with eleven registers. He built his only organ still preserved today for the Cistercian nuns in the Wald monastery .

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1722	Gammertingen	St. Leodegar			11	Original disposition recorded by Anton Braun in 1820.
1734	Überlingen	Franciscan Church				The organ was sold to the Franciscans in Überlingen for 159 guilders.
1735	Wangen in the Allgäu	St. Martin				Major repairs in St. Martin, Wangen for 110 guilders.
1744	Ennetach					New building in Ennetach for 353 guilders 11 cruisers; not preserved, in 1845 Vitus Klingler built a new organ with I / 14.
1738	Heiligkreuztal	Monastery church		?		Not received; It is still unclear whether Aichgasser built the main organ or the choir organ. 1874 new building by Carl Gottlieb Weigle , Stuttgart .
1740	Rottenburg am Neckar	Carmelite Church			24
1745	Bregenz , Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey	Benedictine Church		II / P	24	Not received; after the chaos of secularization, the organ is lost.
1747	Sipplingen	?
1748 (approx.)	Haigerloch	Castle Church
1750 (approx.)	Hilzingen			I / P	11	Attribution according to housing and original disposition; Housing preserved; After several renovations in the 19th century, the plant was replaced by a new building in Mönch, Überlingen in 1959 .
1750	Birnau	Pilgrimage Church Birnau		I / P	12	Housing in Altnau (Switzerland) preserved.
1751	Wald Monastery in Hohenzollern	Cistercian Church		I / P	16	Received changed; the instrument was obviously revised considerably as early as the 18th century and renovated and changed several times in the course of the 19th century, most recently by Mönch & Prachtel from Überlingen.
1753	Salem Imperial Abbey	Münster (choir organ)			15th
1756	Veringendorf			?		Not received; Destroyed by earthquake in 1829 and replaced by a new building by Anton Hieber in 1834 .
1757	Überlingen on Lake Constance	Franciscan Church , main organ		II / P	26th
1757	Überlingen on Lake Constance	Franciscan church, choir organ		II / P	10
1762	Sigmaringen	Catholic parish church (main organ)		II / P	21 (?)
1763	Fischingen Monastery (Switzerland)	Benedictine Church (psallier choir organ)		II / P	33	Housing and parts of the pipework preserved.
1763	Hausen am Andelsbach				10	Not received.
1766	Meersburg	Seminary		I / P	10	Preserved changed in Baitenhausen .

literature

• Bühler: About organs and organ builders in Überlingen . In: Festschrift for the consecration of the organ St. Nikolaus-Münster Überlingen / Bodensee . 1968, p. 9-13 .
• Michael Grüber: Organ builder Johann Georg Aichgasser (1701–1767). Life and work . In: Journal for Hohenzollern History . tape 23 , 1987, pp. 229-247 .
• Gregor Klaus: The organ builder JG Aichgasser . In: Music and Altar . tape 4 (1951/52) , pp. 203-220 .
• Theo Klein: The historical review of the organs and their builders in the former imperial city of Pfullendorf. Organ consecration at St. Jakob 1974 . Pfullendorf (Catholic Parish Council), p. 13-39 (probably 1974).
• Albert Knoepfli: History and restoration of the Psallierchor organ in Fischingen . In: Music and Worship . tape 12 , 1958, pp. 1-11, 34-51 .
• Maximilian Schaitel: Organ builder Johann Georg Aichgasser, a native of Hechingen . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte . tape 9 (1941-1946) , pp. 101-107 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Aichgasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Disposition of the Aichgasser organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Bernhard, Wald