Johann Michael Röder

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Röder organ in Breslau, contemporary engraving

Johann Michael Röder was a German organ builder in Berlin and Silesia from the first half of the 18th century. He was a student of Arp Schnitger .

biography

The year of Röder's birth and death are unknown. He apprenticed to Schnitger as a carpenter journeyman for four years. Vincent Lübeck referred to him in a letter to the Tangermünder council in 1712 as a “grand spokesman” who “very slandered and despised Mr. Schnitger”. The influence of his teacher can be clearly heard in Röder's works, but he went his own way in the external design of the organs and distanced himself further from Schnitger than any of his students. So he gave up the principle of work, dispensed with a Rückpositiv and built the prospectus rather flat. His special technical skills earned him the name “Mechanicus” and led to all sorts of late baroque gadgets, such as angels beating timpani, eagles, stars of the order, suns and others.

Johann Mattheson commented positively on Röder's organ in Breslau: “All emperors, kings and princes would have to be amazed when they saw the engraving of it, and this passes. of 56 soundable pieces: 4 principals, as one a 32, one a 16 and two a 8 feet, a carillon which was played by the angels moving in the Gloria with their hammers in their hands with the help of Ped. is tracted, as well as a pair of beater (visible) timpani, whereupon two angels perfectly present everything that can be had on natural timpani with their mallets and intrades can be played as lifts with the trumpet pull. "

List of works (selection)

New organs in Brandenburg and Silesia are known by Johann Michael Röder . Some have been partially preserved. Instruments that have been completely lost are in italics .

New organs

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1713 Berlin Old garrison church II / P 23 1724 transferred to the St. Nikolai Church in Potsdam ; Burned in 1795
1716 Sydow near Bernau Village church I. 8th Positive, later replaced by Lütkemüller
1717 Berlin-Dorotheenstadt Dorotheenstadt Church 20030707230DR Wesenberg (Mecklenburg) Marienkirche to the organ.jpg I / P 19th In 1833 transferred to the town church in Wesenberg , later redesigned several times; Prospectus, wind chests and pipes from 4 registers preserved - organ
1720 Berlin Old castle and cathedral church II / P 32 not received
1720-1722 Crossen (Krosno) St. Marien, today St. Hedwig III / P 55 Prospectus received, in it 1930 new building by Sauer
1721-1725 Wroclaw Magdalenenkirche
Breslau Röder-Organ.jpg
 III / P 56 In the course of a new organ in the years 1889-1891, the Röder organ was removed, the prospectus came to the Silesian Museum Katowice and was lost after the Second World War .
1726-1729 Deer Mountain (Jelenia Góra) Gnadenkirche , today the Exaltation of the Cross Hirschberg-Gnadenkirche-1.jpg III / P 50 Prospectus and approx. 40 complete registers preserved, in 1905 Schlag & Söhne rebuilt the organ pneumatically and expanded the disposition to 70 registers
1729-1730 Great Castle (Borek Strzeliński) Village church II / P 22nd Prospectus received
1733-1737 Liegnitz (Legnica) Ev. Marienkirche (Church of Our Lady)
Organy w kościele Mariackim w Legnicy.JPG
 II / P 34 1914 New building by Friedrich Weigle with receipt of 5 registers, afterwards modifications and restorations, prospectus and some pipes received
1740 Stargard Castle reformed Church I / P 29 not received
1742 Greiffenberg Village church I / P 7 (or 13?) Attribution, 1842 conversion by Morgenstern, (I / P, 13), 1967 restoration by Schuke to I / P, 12
1743-1744 Prenzlau Holy Spirit Chapel I / P 15th for 400 thalers, realized around 1899, today housing in Schlosskirche Buch
1745 Prenzlau Marienkirche II / P 20th Replaced in 1847 by the Buchholz organ, destroyed in 1945
1746 Gross Schönebeck Village church
Scholtze organ Groß Schönebeck.jpg
 I / P 12 New construction offer from Joachim Wagner from 1746 not implemented, in the same year contract concluded with Röder, who apparently resigned (or died) afterwards, completed in 1749 by Gottlieb Scholtze , after which several modifications, cases and some parts of the baroque organ were preserved

More work and offers

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1708 Bernau St. Mary Offer to repair and rebuild the Scherer organ from 1572 (III / P, 41), not considered, but carried out by Arp Schnitger
1711-1716 Tangermünde St. Stephan
Scherer organ 22-09-2007 136.jpg
 III / P 32 Repair and reconstruction of the organ by Hans Scherer the Elder. Ä. (1624); half of this preserved - organ

literature

  • Ludwig Burgemeister : Organ building in Silesia . Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 251-256 .
  • 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 , p. 211-213 .
  • Gustav Fock:  Röder, Johann Michael. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 11 (Rasch - Schnyder von Wartensee). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1963, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 606–608
  • Johann Mattheson: Basis of an honor gate . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1969 (reprint of the Liepmannssohn edition, Berlin 1910).
  • Uwe Pape:  Röder, Johann Michael. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger , p. 212.
  2. ^ Fock: Röder , p. 607.
  3. ↑ Mattheson: Basis , p. 141.
  4. ^ Karl Richter: Organ Manual Brandenburg. Volume 3. Barnim . Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2014, also introduction to Barnim Institute for Organ Research, with disposition, according to Grüntal parish archive, organ files
  5. ^ Organ in Wesenberg , Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum, with photo, history and disposition, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Organ organ database, with disposition (Dutch)
  7. ^ Organ Musicam Sacram (Polish)
  8. ↑ Sauer organ organy.pro, (polish)
  9. ↑ photo of Crossener organ facade photo polska, accessed on January 8 of 2019.
  10. ^ Organ in Hirschberg Orgeldatabase, history, organ description and current disposition (Dutch), accessed on January 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ Copper engraving of the Hirschberg organ fotopolska, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  12. ↑ Organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, with history and current disposition (Polish)
  13. ↑ Borek Strzelinski organy photo, no information from Wirtualne Centrum Organowe and Musicam Sacram
  14. ^ Organ in Liegnitz with disposition (memento of July 26, 2008).
  15. ↑ Today's organ Musicam Sacram, with history and photo (Polish)
  16. ^ Organ Orgeldatabase, with disposition (Dutch); there is apparently no longer a Reformed church in Stargard Castle, and the Mecklenburg organ inventory does not mention such a church with an organ
  17. ^ Hannes Ludwig: Organ manual Brandenburg. Volume 2. Uckermark (eastern part) . Freimut und Selbst, Berlin 2008, the attribution was carried out by Wolf Bergelt in the 1980s
  18. ↑ History of the Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
  19. ↑ Renovation of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche , 2012, according to Joachim Theil, Chronik
  20. ^ Organ Institute for Organ Research
  21. ↑ Uwe Pape:  Röder, Johann Michael. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Röder, Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röder, Johann; Röder, Joh. Michael Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Berlin and Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1745