Johann Gottlieb Tamitius

Johann Gottlieb Tamitius , also Johann Gottlob Tamitius , Johann Gottlieb Damitius or Johann Tamitio , (born February 9, 1691 in Dresden , † March 24 or 26, 1769 in Zittau ) was a German organ builder.

Johann Gottlieb Tamitius was born in Dresden as the son of the Saxon court organ maker Andreas Tamitius (1633–1700).

He learned his trade from the organ builder Johann Georg Finke in Saalfeld , and from 1717 he was self-employed. On November 23, 1728, Johann Gottlieb married Christiana Eleonore Cadner from Zittau. The marriage had a son, Johann Gottlob Tamitius (1738-1819), who also became an organ builder. Father and son had a reputation for being very good piano makers .

Tamitius owned a workshop in Grottau , where the organ builder Johann Friedrich Treubluth (born May 29, 1739 Weigsdorf (OL); † April 28, 1821 Dresden) learned his trade from 1754 to 1760. His brother-in-law Johann Ernst Hähnel (* May 12, 1697; † January 12, 1777 Hubertusburg ) also learned from him. Leonhard Balthasar Schmahl (* 1729 Heilbronn ; † 1779 Zittau), with whom he built some new organs, was not only his apprentice and employee. He later became the son-in-law of Tamitius and took over his workshop in 1769 when he died.

Works

Preserved organ prospectus in the mountain church Oybin (1754)

54 Tamitius organs were known, in addition to repairs and changes to the disposition of other organs.

• 1726 new organ in Wartenberg am Rollberg , church sv. Zikmunda
• 1727 Construction of a new organ in Türchau , the place was demolished because of the brown coal mining , whether this organ is the one built in Reichenau in Saxony or another one is unclear. The organ of the Reichenau church was rearranged in 1869 by Andreas Schuster . After 1945 the organ was removed from the church and has been lost ever since.
• 1727 repairs to the organ by Ignatius Tauchmann in the church of sv. Jakuba Většího in Eisenbrod
• 1729 Neuzelle , Church to the Holy Cross , only with inlaid decorated Prospekt remained
• Kupferberg All Saints Church , today known as St. Peter and Paul Church, installation of an organ with 17 organ stops
• 1731 New organ in Fünfeichen . It was replaced in 1880 by an organ from Johann Friedrich II. Guest (* 1815; † 1893) and son.
• 1735 and 1736 new construction in St. George's Church in Georgswalde
• In 1738 the old organ of St. John's Church in Zittau was demolished by Tamitius and sold to the community of Ebersbach . The prospectus of this Dressel organ from 1685 has been preserved and since 1994 it has had an owl organ with two manuals and 39 stops. Gottfried Silbermann installed a new organ in Zittau in 1741, and Tamitius took over the inspection and maintenance of the organ. In 1757 the church and its organ were destroyed during the siege of Zittau.
• 1744 New building in Lossow near Frankfurt (Oder) , with the church destroyed in 1945, the organ was described as a small work with 17 voices.
• 1744 New organ in the parish church St. Anna in Langenau together with Leonhard Balthasar Schmahl, it received two manuals and 16 registers.
• 1746 Reichstadt , new organ in the church of St. Fabian and Sebastian , in 1761 the instrument was cleaned and intonated with two manuals and 19 registers.
• 1747 new construction in the Evangelical - Lutheran Church in Großschönau with two manuals, a pedal and 28 registers, twelve in the main plant, eleven in the Oberwerk and five in the pedal. This organ was dismantled in 1898 and replaced by a new one.
• 1748 renovation of the old organ in the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena von Großmergthal , it remains in his inventory with six repairs until 1764
• In 1748 he and Leonhard Balthasar Schmahl built a new organ in the sv. Petra a Pavla Church of Niemes a
• 1749 to 1750, renovation of the organ of the St. Catherine Church in Bürgstein
• 1754 Böhmisch Kamnitz , new organ with 21 stops and 2 manuals in the sv. Jakuba Většího Church together with Leonhard Balthasar Schmahl. The organ builder Josef Benedict Matzke (* around 1729; † December 28, 1778 Böhmisch Kamnitz) dismantled the organ and put it back in the newly built church in 1767.
• 1754 Expansion of the Tamitius organ in Wittgendorf and installation in the mountain church in Oybin
• Between 1754 and 1763 three organ repairs were carried out in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Schwabitz , the place no longer exists since 1947 because it had to give way to the construction of the Ralsko military training area .
• 1760 Schloßbösig , new organ in the sv. Jiljí Church together with Leonhard Balthasar Schmahl. It had two manuals and 10 stops.
• 1760 New building by Tamitius and Schmahl in Niedergrund . The Church of St. Catherine received an organ with a manual and 10 stops.
• 1762 Hühnerwasser new organ of the sv. Havla Church by Tamitius and Schmahl, it had two manuals and 11 stops.
• 1765 to 1768 Großschönau, district Waltersdorf , Waltersdorf church , mechanical organ with three wedge bellows arranged one above the other , 1072 pipes .
• 1768 Repairs to the organ in the parish church of St. Anna in Langenau by Tamitius.
• 1768 installation of a positive organ in the organ of the church of sv. Jana Křtitele in Brenn
• 1769 Repair of the organ in the Church of Our Lady of the Snow in Schnauhübel by Tamitius.

literature

• Gottlieb Friedrich Otto : Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian writers and artists who died and are now living since the fifteen centuries. 8 volumes, Görlitz 1800 ff.
• Organ builder Tamitius and the further fate of his fortress organ. In: Official bulletin of the fortress club Königstein eV, issue 43, Dresden 2006, pp. 36–41.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Flade: Gottfried Silbermann: a contribution to the history of German organ and piano construction in the age of Bach. 2nd Edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1953, p. 119.
2. ^ Ernst Ludwig Gerber: New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler .., Fourth Part SZ. A. Kühnel, Leipzig 1814, p. 318.
3. ^ Hermann Mendel: Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon: an encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences. Volume 10, Robert Oppenheim, Berlin 1886, pp. 294-295.
4. ^ Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV
5. ↑ ' Varhany a varhanáři v České republice Schmahl, Leonhard Balthasar
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Varhany a varhanáři v České republice
7. ^ Organ building A. Schuster & Sohn in Zittau
8. ↑ The Nutcracker on the Organ MOZ August 27, 2008
9. ↑ p. 161, photo of the organ p. 81 Fig. 105 (PDF; 5.3 MB) Waldemar Bena: Wędrówki po powiecie zgorzeleckim.
10. ↑ Martin Schulze, ed. Wolf Bergelt : Organ Manual Brandenburg Volume 5: Oder-Spree. ISBN 978-3-937378-11-4 , p. 140
11. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Ebersbach / Sa.
12. ^ The Silbermann organ in the Johanniskirche Zittau
13. ↑ Hermann Mendel, Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon: an encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences, Volume 10, Robert Oppenheim Berlin 1886, pp. 90/91
14. ↑ p. 363 Ed. Historical Commission at the Königigl, Academy of Sciences: General German Biography. Volume 37, Sturm (Sturmi) - Thiemo. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894 ( Bavarian State Library , digitized version )
15. ↑ The history of the Großschönau organ
16. ↑ Homepage of the Evangelical Lutheran "Bergkirche" Oybin ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.