Johann Jacob John

Johann Jacob John (* 1665 ; baptized September 24, 1665 in Lengefeld near Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † August 28, 1707 in Einbeck ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Johann Jacob John began his apprenticeship as an organ builder with Johann Friedrich Wender in Mühlhausen / Thuringia in 1686 , which he completed in 1692 with a journeyman's certificate. After the death of Andreas Schweimb , he took over his organ building workshop in Einbeck . On February 25, 1702, he became a "citizen and brewer" in Einbeck and on March 1, 1702, he married Anna Catharina Sporleder, the widow of Andreas Schweimb.

John and Schweimb were in competition with Arp Schnitger and his school. In connection with the further construction of the organ in Riechenberg there were even legal disputes.

"Because they are hostile to me on all sides for no reason, and Mr. Schnitger absolutely does not want anyone other than him and his creatures to play a 32-foot trumpet bass, just as if such a thing caused more art than labor and work."

Works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1701	Hemer	St. Peter and Paul
1700-1705	Hardehausen	former Cistercian monastery church		III / P	48	After the secularization, the Prussian government donated the organ to the community of Lienen. Demolition by organ builder Mügge, Osnabrück.
around 1700	Riechenberg Monastery	Collegiate church (canceled)		II / P	34	Completion of the organ work begun by Schweimb
1706/07	Brenkhausen	St. Johannis		I.	11	Just received a brochure.
1705-1710	Borgentreich	St. John Baptist		III / P	45	Addition of a Rückpositiv (14 voices) and a free pedal (8 voices); receive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Aumüller: Was there a relationship between the John Reinecke School and Johann Patroclus Möller? in: Ars Organi, 49, 2001, pp. 70-77
2. ↑ Kaufmann, p. 76
3. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 83-86 .
4. ^ Organ in Borgentreich , seen August 18, 2012.

literature

• Gerhard Aumüller : Johann Jacob John, the Reinecke brothers and their connections to organ building in Westphalia and Waldeck . In: Westphalian magazine . tape 145 , 1995, pp. 73-128 .
• Walter Hans Kaufmann : Andreas Schweimb and Johann Jakob John, two organ builders from the Baroque period in Einbeck . In: Einbecker yearbook . tape 29 , 1950, pp. 69-81 .