Johann Heinrich Mundt

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Johann Heinrich Mundt (born November 15, 1632 in Cologne , † March 18, 1691 in Prague ) was a Czech organ builder of German origin.

life and work

Detail view of Mundt's organ in Prague's Tyn Church

Mundt came to Prague before 1668 to learn the organ building trade from Hieronymus Artmann . The repair of the organ of the St. Thomas Church on Prague's Lesser Town in 1668 in cooperation with Matthäus Köhler (also Matthäus Kehler) from Zwittau was his first verifiable work. His first new organ was built between 1668 and 1670 in the Cistercian monastery church of Osek .

From there he applied for the project to build a new organ in Prague's Tyn Church (2 manuals , 29 registers ). In 1670 he was awarded the contract and built the organ until 1673. This largest instrument built by Mundt and still preserved today helped him to become famous and famous during the construction phase. In addition, he received the citizenship of Prague in this context. When the organ was accepted on April 28, 1673, however, there were complaints from an apparently “conservative examination committee”. Because of this, and because of a fire in the church in 1672, Mundt made improvements to the organ, especially in terms of sound.

Other organ buildings by Mundt include the instruments of the Cistercian Church of Hohenfurth (2 manuals, 27 registers) 1679 and the Church of St. Nicholas in Prague's old town (2 manuals, 16 registers).

In the work of Johann Heinrich Mundt, Bohemian and Italian elements of the art of organ building are combined. Mundt is one of the most striking organ builders of the 17th century in Bohemia. His organ structures represent a link between the organ styles of the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries, i.e. the classical baroque organ. The dominant sound groups of his organs are on the one hand the principal and on the other hand the flute parts. In the work structure of the organs are often zimbelstern integrated. In Mundt's organs, the pedal is usually created as a separate sound group. When designing the prospectus, Mundt preferred a flat arrangement of the pipes and ornaments.

Trivia

As part of a German-Czech poetry dialogue, the lyricist Matthias Buth portrayed the master organ builder Johann Heinrich Mundt as a Cologne boy in a foreign country, who stamped his Prague organ with the stamp of his hometown Cologne.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Felix Friedrich: Johann Heinrich Mundt. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997).
  2. ↑ a b section after: Felix Friedrich : Johann Heinrich Mundt. In: New German Biography. 18 (1997).
  3. ↑ Klára Hůrková, Matthias Buth: The story of an ogel - History Varharn. In: German-Czech poetry dialogue. May 17, 2020, Archived from the original on May 17, 2020 ; accessed on May 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mundt, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mundt, Hans Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech organ builder of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1691
Place of death Prague