Johann Gottlieb Wolfsteller

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Johann Gottlieb Wolfsteller (* 1794 in Rackith near Wittenberg , † 1867 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg organ builder .

Life

Wolfsteller learned organ building from Johann Paul Geycke , whose son-in-law he became. Wolfsteller worked as an organ builder in Hamburg from 1819 and ran his “Hamburger Orgelbauanstalt” in Haus Brook 67. In addition to a few new organs, he became known for his work on the city's historic organs. After his death, his son Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller took over the well-known organ building company.

Works (selection)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1837-1838 Hamburg English church II / P New building incorporating metal pipes and the baroque prospectus of the organ from 1744 from the chapel in the “Englischer Haus”, Gröninger Strasse; rebuilt several times; received some registers
1839-1841 Hamburg Saint Michaelis several changes and additions
1846 Hamburg Saint Jacobi Change of disposition (also as early as 1836); Installation of the swell box for the upper part and the louvre sill for the chest part of the organ
1848 Hamburg Saint Petri Installation of a double manual in the previously restored organ; in 1852 a third manual was added
1851 Varchentin Village church New organ in the village church

literature

  • Gustav Fock : Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Ed .: Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1939, pages 289–373 ( online Wolfsteller on page 369)
  • Leopold Iwan Cirsovius , Reinhard Jaehn (ed.): Organ dispositions from Schleswig-Holstein. 194 Dispositions and Descriptions, 1868-1895 , Merseburger Verlag, 1986, page 157
  • Günter Seggermann: History of the organs in Hamburg's main church St. Petri from the 16th century to the present day , Orgelbau-Fachverlag Rensch, Lauffen 1992, ISBN 3921848229 and ISBN 9783921848227
  • Theodor Cortum: The organ of the St. Thomas Church in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort; a portrait of the organ from 1848 to 1929 , published by Bock & Schulz, Hamburg 1929
  • Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister 1891-1991, commemorative publication with a lexical directory of German organ builders , publisher: Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister (BDO) Munich, Organ Builders Publishing House Rensch, Lauffen 1991
  • Heinrich Schmahl: The organ built by the master organ builder Ch. H. Wolfsteller in Hamburg in the St. Thomas Church at Billwärder Ausschlag in Hamburg; the former organ of the St. Petri Church in Hamburg, rebuilt by JG Wolfsteller after the great fire in Hamburg, preserved and described as a monument to the solid organ building by a Hamburg organ builder from the first half of the 19th century, the Hamburg Church , publisher Nolte, Hamburg 1885

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburg address book from 1847
  2. ↑ Barbara Owen: The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms , 2007, page 144 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Thomas Lipski: Hans Henny Jahnn's influence on organ building , 1997, pages 111 + 112 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Barbara Owen: The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms , 2007, page 144 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Organ concerts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
personal data
SURNAME Wolf dish, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Rackith near Lutherstadt Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1867
Place of death Hamburg