Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (organ builder, 1690)

Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (* around 1690 in Krempe ; † November 23, 1757 ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer probably learned the profession from his father Johann (Jean) Werner Klapmeyer, who was a journeyman at Arp Schnitger and was involved in building the new organ in Wittmund . In 1729 he acquired the citizenship of Glückstadt and worked there as an organ and instrument maker . He also ran a hostel with an inn. From 1733 he was in dispute with his competitors Lambert Daniel Kastens and Johann Dietrich Buschwho ran a workshop in Itzehoe. After five submissions to the Danish king, Klapmeyer received the longed-for organ building license for life in Schleswig-Holstein in 1735. In the last years of his life he was in poor health and worked in his inn. The organ work was done by his journeyman Johann Joachim Maaß. After Klapmeyer's death in 1758, the privilege was given to the widow who commissioned Maaß with the work. In 1763 he received the privilege from her.

The descendant of the same name, Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer (1724–1792), possibly a grandson, was based in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) and built and repaired instruments in the Oldenburg organ landscape and between the Elbe and Weser rivers .

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1719-1720	Barmstedt	Holy Spirit Church		III / P	31	New building; Restored in 1990 by Alfred Führer
1721	Heart horn	St. Anne				New building
1724	Bützfleth	St. Nicolai Church		II / P	22nd	Repair of the organ by Johann Werner Klapmeyer (1703–1705); only housing received
1726	Oederquart	St. Johannis		III / p	28	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1678–1682)
1727-1730	Altenbruch	St. Nicolai Church		III / P	35	Implementation and reconstruction of the organ from the 15th to 17th centuries Century, 9 registers from Klapmeyer (fully or partially) preserved → Organ of St. Nicolai Church (Altenbruch)
1735	Wyk on Föhr	St. Nicolai (Wyk auf Föhr)		I / P	?	New construction of a single-manual organ with pedal towers; 1955/1956 renovation by Rudolf von Beckerath organ building , in which the previous manual became a Rückpositiv and a new main work was added (II / P / 25); received some registers
1736-1738	Wesselburen	St. Bartholomew		II / P	31	New building; Prospectus and some registers received; Remaining pipework reconstructed by Rowan West
1734-1738	Neuenkirchen (Dithmarschen)	St. Jacobi		II / P	25th	New building; 1884–1885 replaced by Johann Färber and the Rückpositiv removed; Brochure partially received
1738-1740	Kotzenbüll	Nikolaikirche		I / P	15th	Repair and expansion of the organ from around 1550 (9 registers) by an independent pedal (6 registers); after later alterations and renovations (1848, 1859 (by Johann Hinrich Färber (including neo-Gothic prospectus)), 1958) 6 registers from the 16th century and 4 pedal registers from Klapmeyer are still preserved.

literature

• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 .
• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia - organ topography . Publishing house Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1968.
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 182.
2. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 220.
3. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 288.
4. ↑ Färberorgel Kotzenbüll , accessed on January 17, 2017.