Johann Michael Wagner
Johann Michael Wagner (born January 19, 1723 in Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig ; † April 21, 1801 there ) was a Thuringian organ builder .
life and work
Wagner learned organ building from 1741 to 1747 with Carl Christian Hoffmann in Gotha and was a journeyman with Johann Casper Beck from 1747 to 1751 while the Laubach organ was being built . In 1751 Wagner went into business for himself as an organ builder in Schmiedefeld. Here he founded together with his younger brother Johannes Wagner (born April 11, 1734, † January 12, 1804) a family business that existed for three generations; the sons and grandsons of Johannes Wagner continued the business. It is unclear whether Johann Michael Wagner's son Johann Friedrich continued the workshop. From the 1780s, when the relative Johann Caspar Holland, who was involved in building the new organ in the Dresden Kreuzkirche, the Holland family took over the practical implementation. Although Holland became a partner, the company operated under the name of the Wagner brothers until Wagner's death in 1801. Wagner's field of activity extended to Thuringia and Hesse.
List of works
The overview lists all of Wagner's proven new buildings.
In the fifth column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers .
year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1741 | Gospiteroda | Gospiteroda Church |
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II / P | 14th | Collaboration with Hoffmann |
1748 | Wallbach (Meiningen) | Protestant church | I. | 12 | Collaboration at Beck | |
1749 | Metzels | St. Nicholas Church | Collaboration with Beck in the expansion of the organ; Prospectus received | |||
around 1750 | Seligenthal | Collaboration at Beck | ||||
1747-1751 | Laubach | Protestant town church |
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II / P | 21st | New building together with Beck and Johann Andreas Heinemann ; 9 registers preserved, 2010 reconstruction and expansion to III / P / 28 (33) by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau → Orgel |
1751 | Döschnitz | Village church | II / P | 22nd | extensively rebuilt in the 19th century | |
1753-1754 | Bad Blankenburg | City Church of St. Nicolai |
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II / P | 21st | In 1938 a renovation took place. The organ work was created in the workshop of Gustav Heinze in Sorau. |
1757 | Katzhütte | Ev.-luth. church | II / P | 17th | 1988 Organ repairs by the Thilo Viehrig restoration workshop, Kaulsdorf | |
1757 | Goldlauter | Protestant church |
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I. | 10 | In 1990 a fundamental renovation was carried out by Orgelbau Schönefeld from Stadtilm. The historic organ prospectus was preserved. |
1760-1762 | Suhl | Marienkirche |
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II / P | 30th | Restored around 1975 by Karl-Heinz Schönefeld |
after 1760 | Vesser (Suhl) | Village church |
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after 1760 | Asbach | I. | 6th | |||
1767 | Weißenbrunn | II / P | 20th | |||
1768-1770 | Arnhem | Eusebius Church | III / P | 47 | Destroyed in 1944 | |
1770 | Schleusingen | Johanniskirche | II / P | most recently in 2009 general overhaul by Hey Orgelbau (today III / P / 39) | ||
1776-1777 | Hohenstein | St. Christopheri | II / P | 30th | ||
1778 | Saalfeld / Saale - Graba | Gertrudiskirche (Graba) | II / P | 20th | Organ by Richard Voigt from Halberstadt (1927, II / P20) in the historical prospectus of the predecessor organ by Georg Wilhelm Kappauf (Saalfeld) and the Wagner brothers | |
1778 | Vachdorf | Protestant church | I / P | 16 | ||
1780 | Volkmannsdorf | I / P | 9 | |||
1780 | Sun field | |||||
after 1781 | Friedrichroda | St. Blaise |
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1785 | Schönbrunn | St. James | ||||
1785 | Pouring evil | Protestant church | ||||
1784-1787 | Gersfeld (Rhoen) | Ev. Parish church | II / P | 28 | Altar organ ; together with his son; six registers received | |
1786-1792 | Dresden | Kreuzkirche | III / P | 54 | ||
1795 | Bernshausen | Johanneskirche | ||||
1799-1800 | Kirchheim | St. Laurence |
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II / P | currently not playable | |
before 1800 | Heyda (Ilmenau) | Ev.-luth. church |
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II / P | 21st |
literature
- Hartmut Haupt : Organs in East and South Thuringia . Education and knowledge, Bad Homburg, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-927879-59-2 .
- Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .
- Torsten Sterzik: The Schmiedefelder organ building. Part 2: For the 275th birthday of Johann Michael Wagner. In: Thüringer Orgelsommer eV (Ed.): Thüringer Orgeljournal 1998. Arnstadt 1998, pp. 83-104.
- Wagner. In: Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Person part, volume 17. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5 , p. 285 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (= contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 15, 565-567 .
- ↑ a b Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Thuringia. 2009, p. 318 f.
- ↑ Hartmut Haupt: Organs in the Suhl district. Council d. Bez.Suhl, Culture Department, Suhl 1985, p. 9.
- ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Thuringia. 2009, p. 318.
- ^ Matthias Herrmann (ed.): The Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries. Laaber, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X , p. 221.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wagner, Johann Michael |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner, Johannes Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1723 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1801 |
Place of death | Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig |