Johann Georg Fischer (organ builder, 1697)

Johann Georg Fischer (born January 15, 1697 in Herrenberg , † October 14, 1780 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German organ builder .

Life

The fisherman, who came from Protestant Württemberg, converted to the Catholic denomination and wanted to join the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest in 1720 . This did not happen, however, and he married in Freiburg in 1721, where he then worked as an organ builder for about 30 years. In 1760 he became a deputation councilor in Freiburg. The organ builders Johann Baptist Fischer and Johann Georg Hugo Fischer were his brothers and students.

List of works

Organ of the Adelhauser Church in Freiburg, case from 1746, organ has since been replaced

according to Fischer / Wohnhaas

• Jesuit Church , Freiburg, around 1720
• Wolfenweiler , 1726
• St. Märgen Monastery Church , 1729
• Main organ of the monastery church St. Peter in the Black Forest , 1731
• St. Cyriak , Freiburg-Lehen, 1740 (attributed), 1808 sold to Hartheim-Feldkirch
• St. Agatha , Aschaffenburg, 1741
• St. Laurentius, Kenzingen , 1741
• Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Alexander , Aschaffenburg, 1742 (renovation)
• Adelhauser Church received, Freiburg, 1746, housing organ in 1930 by M. Welte & Sons rebuilt

literature

• Bernd Sulzmann: Information about the work of Swabian organ makers in Baden from the 16th to the 19th century, in: Mundus Organorum. FS Walter Supper on his 70th birthday, Berlin 1978, pp. 322–361, on Fischer pp. 326–330

Web links

• Johann Georg Fischer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Fischer, Johann Georg , in: Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexikon Süddeutscher Orgelbauer . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 95
2. ↑ Michael G. Kaufmann: The Welte organ in the Adelhauserkirche Freiburg. In: Ars Organi 65 (2017) H. 2, pp. 115-120