Johann Matthias Schreiber

Johann Matthias Schreiber (born May 17, 1716 in Dusemond ; † May 12, 1771 in Loxstedt ) was a German organ builder in Glückstadt .

Life

Schreiber was born the ninth of ten children of the carpenter Georg Schreiber. He came from Dusemond, but moved to Glückstadt in 1750, where he acquired citizenship and opened a workshop. On July 9, 1750, he married the widow Magdalena Margaretha Layser, who died on September 9, 1750. From her second marriage to Rebecca Sophia Daß (1733–1782), Johanna Christiana emerged on May 17 and five more siblings emerged in the following years. They all died in childhood. When Rebecca Sophia Schreiber died in 1782, she left behind two sons and a daughter. In addition to building organs, Matthias Schreiber ran a wine trade and was also known as a "wine merchant". There is evidence that Schreiber was Dietrich Christoph Gloger's journeymanand Jacob Albrecht. His nephews Peter Schreiber (1732–1795) and Nikel (Nikolaus) Schreiber (1727–1776) also came from Dusemond and owned vineyards there. They were related to the Stumm organ builder family . At least Peter Schreiber is proven as an employee in the organ workshop of his uncle Matthias. Matthias Schreiber died in 1771 while working on the Loxstedt organ.

plant

Schreiber is assigned to the school of Arp Schnitger and continued the tradition of the Glückstadt organ builders Berendt Hus and Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer . Since the north German type of organ with its Hamburg prospectus in Wittlich , St. Markus on the part of Peter and Nikel Schreiber is unusual, a mediation or influence by Matthias Schreiber is assumed.

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column of the table, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal and the Arabic number in the sixth column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1750-1753	Mittelkirchen	St. Bartholomew		II / P	31	Completion of the rebuilding of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1688) by Jacob Albrecht, new case, addition of an independent pedal; 6–7 stops from the first organ (16th / 17th century), 6–8 stops from Schnitger (1688: II / p / 22) and 4–8 from Schreiber; 2 vacant, remainder reconstructed → organ from St. Bartholomäus (Mittelkirchen)
1755	Horneburg	Church of Our Lady		II / P	18th	New building by Schreiber or Johann Andreas Zuberbier; Prospectus received
1755	Bremen	Bremen Cathedral		III / P	50	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1693–1698); not received
1755-1756	Rellingen	Rellinger Church				New building; Prospectus and 6 registers received
1757	Neuendorf b. Elmshorn	Trinity Church		II / P	21st	New building; largely preserved
1757	Sønderborg	Sankt Marie Kirke (formerly S. Jørgens Kirke)		at least II		Reconstruction of the organ built by Joachim Willers von Soltwedel in 1604; 1703 extension of Hinrich Wiese; 1776 reconstruction by JH Angel; Replaced by a new building in 1852; not received
1758	Koldenbüttel	St. Leonhards Church		I / p	10	New building; only received prospectus; 1974 New building by Detlef Kleuker
1758	Drage (stone castle)	Friedrichsruh Palace, Palace Chapel				New building; not received
1760	Aabenraa	Nicolaikirche (Aabenraa)				New building contract 1758; Replaced by a new building in 1885; the prospectus, of which a sketch was made around 1950, was still stored in the attic of the church, which was restored between 1949 and 1956, in 1959 and probably still exists (see illustration for reference)
1763	Stone churches	St. Nicolai et Martini		II / P	28	Repair of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1685–1687); 21 registers of Schnitgers and his predecessors completely or partially preserved → Organ by St. Martini et Nicolai (Steinkirchen)
1765-1770	Dorum	St. Urbanus Church		II / P	21st	New building; Prospectus received
1767-1771	Loxstedt	St. Mary's Church		II / P	23	New building completed by Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1781–1786) and Johann Wolfgang Witzmann (1789); later conversions; 14 registers received from Schreiber, 3 more taken over from him

literature

• Jan von Busch: The lost Schreiber organ in Koldenbüttel and its organ-building organists. In: Ars Organi . 66th vol., Issue 2, June 2018, pp. 73–82 ( pp. 73–76 online , PDF).
• 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 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Günter Seggermann: The Schreiber organ of the Trinity Church in Neuendorf near Elmshorn . In: The selection . No. 3 , 1985, pp. 10-14 .
• Ulrich Euent: Johann Matthias Schreiber (1716–1771) - an organ builder in the shadow of big names . In: Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star . No. 91 (2012) , 2013, ISBN 978-3-931771-91-1 , pp. 55-80 .
• Ulrich Euent: Born 300 years ago on the Moselle. The organ builder Matthias Schreiber, builder of the Loxstedt church organ . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 796 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2016, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 739 kB ; accessed on July 30, 2019]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Euent: Johann Matthias Schreiber. 2012, p. 56.
2. ↑ Euent: Johann Matthias Schreiber. 2012, p. 60.
3. ^ Franz Bösken : The organ builder family Stumm from Rhaunen-Sulzbach and their work. A contribution to the history of organ building on the Middle Rhine . Mainzer Altertumsverein, Mainz 1981, p.  4–7 (special print from Mainz magazine vol. 55, 1960).
4. ^ Organ in Wittlich , seen on January 15, 2014.
5. ↑ Erik Moltke, Elna Møller Vibeke Michelsen: Sønderborg office . (= Danmarks kirker , vol. 23). GEC Gad, København 1961, p. 2100 .
6. ↑ Erik Moltke, Elna Møller Vibeke Michelsen: Åbenrå Office . (= Danmarks kirker , vol. 22). GEC Gad, København 1959, p. 1704, 1708 (prospectus sketch) u. 1713 . The Schreiber organ replaced an instrument with 18-20 registers built by Matthias Mahn (Buxtehude) in 1594, which in 1715 underwent major repairs by Hans Vent (Flensburg).
7. ↑ See the restoration report: Fritz Schild: Denkmal-Orgeln. Documentation of the restoration by organ building guides 1974-1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 , p. 666-700 .