Johann Gottfried Malleck

Johann Gottfried Malleck (* August 1733 in Hadersdorf am Kamp , Lower Austria ; † 19 July 1798 in Laimgrube , today Vienna , 6th district, Gumpendorfer Straße 9) was a Viennese organ builder .

Life

Johann Gottfried Malleck took the Vienna citizen oath in 1763 and paid trade tax from 1764. He lived in the house at the golden snail , today Mariahilfer Straße 23-25. In 1779 he resigned his citizenship in Vienna. In the same year in Ödenburg ... Johann Gottfried Malleck was allowed to pursue his organ-making profession here and in the event that he would find his way to apply for citizenship here too . That was a necessary step, because there were enough “own” organ builders in Sopron, too, and there were few opportunities for those from outside. At the end of the 18th century, around 60 piano and organ makers were active in Vienna .

Act

Malleck organ in Eisenstadt Cathedral (1778)

Organ in Eisenstadt Cathedral

Thanks to a foundation by the widow Theresia Frigl, a new organ was installed in the Eisenstadt cathedral in 1778. The new building was necessary because the old organ was badly damaged during renovation work in the church. Gottfried Malleck carried out the work.

The instrument from 1778 has essentially been preserved in its original condition. Major interventions were made in 1944 by the Karl Schuke organ building company (Berlin), the last restoration in 1973 by the same company.

Malleck is recorded in the organ files of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey from 1782 to 1792. (The Kaisersteinbrucher organ is not included, certainly because of the self-financing).

Fortepiano in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, collection of old musical instruments

A fortepiano (also the oldest dated Viennese fortepiano) was built in 1787 by Gottfried Malleck. It is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( KHM / SAM 960).

Organ in the Protestant church in Rust

A church invoice for the year 1789 issued by the organ builder Malleck for 487 guilders documents the builder of this organ.

Organ in the Pöttschingen parish church

Malleck built a new organ here in 1792, which has been heavily modified and has eleven voices. The shape of its housing is similar to the work in the Barmherzigenkirche in Eisenstadt , which could also be a work from Malleck's workshop.

Organ in the Kaisersteinbruch Church

The construction of the organ in the parish church of Kaisersteinbruch is well documented. In the contract of July 12, 1795, Gottfried Malleck, “civil organ maker in Vienna”, ordered a new organ with 10 stops and pedals for the amount of 450 guilders . The brotherhood of stonemasons raised this amount by selling some of their vineyards and the old organ to the pastor in neighboring Sarasdorf . The community paid for the setting of the organ by Johann Pauler, gilder in Vienna, with 160 guilders plus food for his people.

“On April 19, 1796, the local day of prayer, it was played for the first time. This occasion celebrated his Reverend and Grace Abbot Marian Reutter with a pontifical mass , to a well-cast music , with Leopold Heldenmuth, organist at Heiligenkreuz, playing the organ. “This instrument was destroyed in the Second World War.

"Haydn Organ"

1797, the organ in the parish upper mountain was in Eisenstadt by Gottfried Malleck after the disposition of Joseph Haydn built. Haydn himself composed several masses for his great patroness, Princess Maria Josepha Hermengilde Esterházy de Galantha , some of which were performed here under his musical direction. 1796 the holy mass on the occasion of the name day of the princess, 1797 on the occasion of the visit of the palatine Archduke Joseph the famous timpani mass , which he conducted himself on August 12, 1798. In 1799 the Theresienmesse premiered and in 1801 that of the Creation Mass .

The organ in the mountain church has a small peculiarity: On the side of the case you can still see two small holes. They come from Ludwig van Beethoven , who - already hard of hearing - tried to hear a bit of a performance of one of his masses that he composed for the prince with two wires.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1778	Eisenstadt	St. Martin Cathedral (Eisenstadt)
1782	Sopron (Hungary)	Protestant church
1785	Ágfalva (Agenda Village)	Protestant church
1789	Rust	Protestant church		I / P	9
1790	Harka	Protestant church
1790	Sopronbánfalva	Roman Catholic parish church
1792	Poettsching	Parish church		I / P
1796	Kaisersteinbruch	Rochus and Sebastian Church
1797	Eisenstadt	Roman Catholic parish church Oberberg (mountain church)				today with the mausoleum of Joseph Haydn .

literature

• Eisenstadt Diocesan Library, Ödenburger Rundschau , 2002.
• Church records in the archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey
• Richard A. Prilisauer: Joh. Gottfried Malleck. In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 .
• Gyula Kormos, organ builder in Ödenburg for the past five centuries. In: Soproni Szemle , 2002, pp. 347–376. Hungarian text translated by Hilda Burits.
• Helmuth Furch : Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

Web links

• Rudolf Hopfner, Art. "Malleck (Maleck, Mallnik), Familie", in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, accessed: November 10, 2019 ( https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_M/Malleck_Familie.xml ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from Matthias Krampe, regional cantor and organ expert of the Evangelical Church in Austria , on September 9, 2010