Carl Friedrich Voit

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Carl Friedrich Voit (born May 5, 1774 in Schweinfurt ; † March 20, 1854 ) was an instrument maker and an innovator in instrument making and the son of a family of organ builders. He built clavichords and developed the aeolodicon as early as 1820 , a forerunner of the harmonium in Schweinfurt. The aeolodicon corresponds almost completely to the aeoline or the physharmonica .

ancestors

Organ in the Rhön Cathedral from 1786

His father Johann Michael Voit (November 7, 1744; † August 27, 1819), was a master in the Schweinfurt carpenter's guild and already took over an organ building workshop from great-grandfather HJ Voit , and grandfather Johann Rudolf Voit (April 28, 1695; † January 13, 1786 ). 25 of his works are known. The organ of the Evangelical Cemetery Chapel in Königsberg / Franconia was built in 1750/52 by Johann Rudolf Voit from Schweinfurt. "The fine baroque organ from 1733 is a small treasure. During a renovation, the following builder label was discovered:" This organ was made by Johann Rudolph Voit, organ maker in Schweinfurt and delivered to Meyles. A: 1733 / The Michaelis "."

relative

He had four brothers, Johann Volkmar Voit (* June 3, 1772; † 1806), became an organ maker like his father and went to Durlach (now a part of Karlsruhe ) and in 1794 married Katherina Friederike Stein, the daughter of Georg Marcus Stein (* 1738; † 1794), Georg Markus Stein founded the organ and piano manufacturing company in 1770, and Johann Volkmar Voit was his successor. Johann Volkmar Voit, was appointed court organ maker in 1804 by Elector Karl Friedrich. The widow married the journeyman organ maker Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Bürgy (* 1761; † 1838). He trained his stepson Louis Voit (* 1802; † 1883) to be an organ builder and made him his partner and successor in 1835. Heinrich Voit the grandson of Johann Volkmar Voit.

Georg Markus Stein was a cousin of Johann Andreas Stein (* 1728; † 1792), an important piano maker who worked for the Strasbourg organ builder Johann Andreas Silbermann . Andreas Streicher married in 1793, daughter of the Augsburg piano maker Johann Andreas Stein. In 1794 the couple went to Vienna, where Nannette and her brother Matthäus Andreas Stein opened the piano factory "Frère et Sœur Stein". After the division of the company in 1802, Andreas Streicher acquired the necessary technical knowledge and got into his wife's business as a piano maker himself. He and Nannette Streicher were important confidants of Ludwig van Beethoven in the last years of his life.

An important member of the Voit family was his older brother Georg Friedrich Voit .

Johann Benedict Voit (* May 31, 1713; † January 31, 1795), who has made a name for himself as a portrait painter. After completing his apprenticeship, his brother went to Frankfurt a. M., Stuttgart, Mannheim, Regensburg, Augsburg and Nuremberg. Listed in 'The Manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library'

The name Voit im Schweinfurt in 1836 and 1856

The following entries for the name Voit are available, but they are no longer listed as an organ or instrument maker. Chronicle of the city of Schweinfurt from 1836.

  • Carl Georg Friedrich Voit, Schweinfurt No. 368, Am Markte, regional products trade (widow)
  • Friedrich Voit, Schweinfurt No. 74, Mühlgasse, pharmacist, businessman, member of the Protestant parish council and, as a private person, secular member of the Protestant deanery
  • Johann Friedrich Voit, Schweinfurt No. 879, Holzmarkt Handel Committee member, forwarding and commission business
  • Philipp Friedrich Voit, Schweinfurt No. 368, Am Markte, state product retailer, owner, dye store, retail committee member
  • Carl Friedrich Voit Jun. Schweinfurt No. 577, Steinweg, detail material = goods = dealership, color goods dealership, trade committee member, magistrate council and obristlieuten. dk Landwehr.
  • Julius Voit Schweinfurt No. 94, Brückengass, merchant
  • Ludwig Voit, Schweinfurt No. 292, 293, Lange Zehutgasse Spitalgasse, cutlery shop
  • Christian Voit Mühler, Schweinfurt No. 102, 103, An der Brücke, Kunstmühle was built in 1842, powder, scrap and primer trade, factory owners and colonels. derk. Landwehr. "It was the young Mr. Christian Voit from Schweinfurt, an organ builder and instrument maker , who, however, took little pleasure in his art and had a greater sense of commercialism;" Privilege for ten years for scrap factory.

Johann Peter Voit (born April 27, 1748 in Schweinfurt; † May 30, 1811 in Schweinfurt)

Pastor in Schweinfurt, "Death notice. On May 30th of this year, Mr. Johann Peter Voit, grand-ducal Würzburg district dean and senior pastor, also a full member of the institute of morality and the beautiful sciences on the royal baier, died in Schweinfurt. University of Erlangen, in his 63rd life and in the 33rd year of service from a nervous fever. He was born in Schweinfurt on April 27, 1748. The deceased has made his way through the publication of various edification books and several partly educational, partly economic writings (those in Meusel's Gel. Teutschland Vol. VIII. Pp. 521-252 and Vol. XI., P. 732) made famous. He also participated in several periodicals. His portrait looks before the third part of the conversations for young people. "

Johann Peter Voit Archidiakous at the St. Johann main church and professor at the grammar school in the imperial city of Schweinfurt: born in Schweinfurt, author of numerous books.

Cross connections

He knew Georg Joseph Vogler and was acquainted with Bernhard Eschenbach and his cousin Johann Caspar Schlimbach who had developed the Aeoline around 1810, where they were inspired by the Jew's harp. The Physharmonika was patented by Anton Haeckl in Vienna in 1821 . In 1824 Anton Reinlein received a patent in Vienna for an improvement on the hand harmonica. The connections to Vienna and Johann Caspar Schlimbach, who also learned piano making in Vienna, are obvious, Schlimbach also built organs.

Georg Joseph Vogler in Schweinfurt in 1804

Georg Joseph Vogler stayed in Schweinfurt in April 1804 and gave a concert "The Resurrection of Jesus". The Voglerische Simpliflkations-System is an important topic for music lovers and prompts the organ builder Johann Michael Voit to write an article in the newspaper Intellektivenblatt Zeitung for the elegant world that is over two pages long. August 18, 1804. Voit had already known for 30 years how to produce difference tones and also showed this to organists, but weathered Vogler's innovations while acknowledging his playful skills, as these would not bring the savings in organ construction as he promised. He also claims that tuning a 16-footed principal takes two weeks if you also work with two journeymen. And Vogler is said to have done that in two hours. All in all, it is also clear that Voit knew how certain most of the organ builders of his time knew exactly about Vogler's innovations and this also includes the use of the penetrating reeds even if this is not explicitly mentioned here. It is not surprising that these were then used in other instruments such as the Aeolodicon.

Contemporary newspaper reports

"On this occasion I inform those who already know my Aeolodicon that I have finally succeeded in solving the difficult task given to me by several music friends, to set up the instrument in such a way that the swelling and lowering of the notes by the pressure the hand can be effected, so that now even a child of 12 years of age is able to play the same thing and give the wind, which, by the way, can be given by the person playing himself, or by a stranger at will, even in the next room; and that next summer I will visit Munich and other cities with my instruments that are as perfect as possible. Schweinfurt, April 6, 1820. Carl Friedrich Voit, organ and instrument maker. "

Remarks

  1. ↑ Johann Michael is not in the newspaper article, but based on the fact that he was 30 years ago ... only Johann Michel makes sense.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The perfect organ maker or teaching of the organ and wind test, the repair and tuning of organs and other keyboard instruments, Schneider and Weigel, 1829, page 27 online
  2. ↑ Already mentioned in 1792 as an organ builder for the church in Miscellaneen. Journal von und für Franken, Volume 4, Raw 1792, page 246, online
  3. ^ Organs in Lower Franconia, p. 385.
  4. ↑ The organ of the Evangelical Cemetery Chapel in Königsberg / Franconia Online ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offene-kirchen-bayern.de
  5. ^ The Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, by Donald Boalch. Oxford 1974, p. 170
  6. ↑ General Lexicon of Visual Artists, U.Thieme and F. Becker. Leipzig 1940, vol. 34, p. 516.
  7. ^ The manuscripts of the Nuremberg City Library: Sonderbd., Die ..., Part 2, from City Library, Werner Wilhelm Schnabel, Online
  8. ↑ Address book for the royal Bavarian city of Schweinfurt: edited according to reliable materials. 1856, online
  9. ^ Chronicle of the city of Schweinfurt, Volume 1 By Heinrich Christian Beck, 1836, online
  10. ↑ Art diligence and industry: in some simple, truthful ..., by Ludwig Bechstein, 1860, online
  11. ^ Government sheet for the Kingdom of Bavaria, from Bavaria (Kingdom), 1826, page 520 online
  12. ↑ Handbook for the royal Bavarian Mainkreis, 1810, page 23, online
  13. ↑ New Franconian-Würzburg Chronicle, Volume 6, Bonitas, 1811, Page 530 Online
  14. ^ The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the now living teutschen ..., Volume 8, by Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel, page 251, online
  15. ^ Newspaper for the elegant world, Verlag L. Voss, 1804, page i Online
  16. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen , April 22, 1820, No. 109, page 1169 Online

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personal data
SURNAME Voit, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German instrument maker and organ builder in Schweinfurt
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1854