Johann Georg Geib

Johann Georg Geib (born September 9, 1739 in Staudernheim , † April 16, 1818 in Frankenthal (Pfalz) ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

His parents were the mayor Johann Adam Geib and Sophie Emmerich.

Johann Georg Geib married Louisa Karcher on September 14, 1764 in Piestorf (Alsace) (* August 11, 1743; † February 1, 1817). Their three children were born in Saarbrücken ; Maria Elisabeth (born November 12, 1767), Margaretha (born July 31, 1770 - † July 30, 1839 in Frankenthal) and Johann Georg (born June 14, 1772), known as Görg. Georg continued his father's workshop, but did not match his father's quality.

Geib probably received his training from the Stumm brothers in Sulzbach (Hunsrück) . His works resemble those of the Stumm workshop in terms of their disposition , prospectus shape , scale length and pipe construction. At the beginning of the 1760s he worked in Saarbrücken and moved to Frankenthal (Palatinate) in 1790 .

In 1776 Joh. Philipp Hartung made his journeyman's piece at Geib, the pedal wind chest as a sliding chest, for the Catholic. New Bamberg organ. Alongside the Stumm and Johann Michael Hartung , Geib is considered to be the most important organ builder in the Palatinate.

Bell founders also emerged from the family who cast bells after emigrating to the east (Bukovina, Galicia). Over the years, the members of the family emigrated to the USA, partly via England. A family member moved to Australia. The descendants of a single branch still live in Germany today, mostly in Hesse.

Works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1769	Eisenberg (Palatinate)					Completion of the organ started by Leuckel Sippersfeld; not received
1773	Ungstein
1774	Goellheim
1775	Kallstadt			II / P	24	Restored in 2005 by Förster & Nicolaus
1775	Pirmasens			II / P		Replaced in 1914
1776	New Bamberg	Ev. & cath. church		I / P	9
1777	Lambrecht (Palatinate)	Former monastery church (Protestant)		II / P	26th	Based on the Kallstadt organ from 1775 with slight changes; 1892 by Orgelbau Huber (Pirmasens) romanticized, restored in 1977 by Orgelbau Johannes Klais
1782	Fürfeld			II / P	22nd
1783	Partenheim	St. Peter		II / P	25th
1784	Altdorf (Palatinate)			I / P	12	Construction contract dated July 31, 1780 (in the Degenfeld-Schomburg archive in Eybach). The planned completion in 1781, however, was delayed until 1784. In 1956 the organ was rebuilt by the Oberlinger company (Windesheim) and finally restored in 1996 to meet the requirements of listed buildings.
1785	Assenheim			I / P	12	This work replaced the organ from Hartung (Dürkheim) installed in 1759 . In the following years the organ was rebuilt several times and differs greatly from the original. Restoration by organ builder Rützsch.
1789	Freisbach			II / P	25th	Romanticizing renovation by Johann Jelacic from Speyer from 1891 with a new play area. Restoration of the original arrangement, but also modifications by organ builder Owart (Neuhofen) in 1975 that did not correspond to the baroque original. The instrument is built as a parapet organ in oak.
1790?	Volxheim			I.	14th	In 1790 the church was consecrated.
1791	Speyer					Was devastated in 1794 (French Revolution)
1812	Speyer	Trinity Church				Since 1929 III / P / 41
1818	Ludwigshafen- Ruchheim	St. Cyriac		I / P	8th

literature

• Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Monument organs in the Palatinate . Evangelischer Presseverlag Pfalz, Speyer 1990, ISBN 3-925536-27-2 , p. 341 .
• Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The Geib family of organ builders and their work. In: The tower cock, sheets of artistic creation and building in the Palatinate regional church. 21, Issue 1/2, 1977, pp. 3-15.
• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs (=  contributions to Middle Rhine music history 6 ). Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 .
• Gero Kaleschke: The Geib family of organ builders. In: Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Cyriakus, Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim (Ed.), Christoph Keggenhoff (Red.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the restored Geib organ of the Catholic Church St. Cyriakus in Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim. Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim 2001, pp. 7–9.
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 110 f .

Web links

• Birger Petersen: Music and Musicians on the Middle Rhine 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Family tree on gw.geneanet.info , accessed on November 18, 2014.
2. ^ Fischer, Wohnhaas: Lexicon of south German organ builders. 1994, p. 111.
3. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, p. 283.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bonkhoff: protected organs in the Pfalz. 1990, p. 341.
5. ^ Geib organ in Neu-Bamberg, St. Dionysius , accessed on November 18, 2014.
6. ↑ Michele Joubert: The bell foundries from Bukovina and Galicia. The bellcasters from the Bucovina and Galicia. The Geib family. Juneau 1994.
7. ^ Hermann Graf, Ernst Christmann: 1200 years of Eisenberg. Eisenberg 1963, p. 158; Gero Kaleschke: The Protestant Church in Lambrecht - former monastery church of the Dominican Sisters. The organ. In: Turmhahn. Magazine for building and art in the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church). Vol. 31/35. Evangelischer Presseverlag, Speyer 1987, pp. 14–16, here: p. 15.
8. ↑ Historical organs in the Pirmasener and Zweibrücker rooms , accessed on November 18, 2014.
9. ↑ Hans Martin Balz : Divine Music. Organs in Germany (=  230th publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X , p. 142 .
10. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, pp. 309-311.
11. ↑ Picture / description of the Partenheim organ , accessed on November 18, 2014.
12. ^ Anton Eckardt (edit.): City and District Office Landau. (= The art monuments of Bavaria ; Vol. 6/2). Oldenbourg, Munich 1928, p. 99.
13. ^ Bernhard Hermann Röttger (edit.): City and District Office Ludwigshafen am Rhein. (= The art monuments of Bavaria ; Vol. 6/6). Oldenbourg, Munich 1936, p. 32.
14. ↑ Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Speyer ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 18, 2014.  
15. ^ Geib organ in Ludwigshafen-Ruchheim , accessed on November 18, 2014.