Johann Michael Wagner

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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
1741 Gospiteroda Gospiteroda Church Gospiteroda village church 01.JPG 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 Laubach city church organ 20110409.jpg 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
Organ Döschnitz.jpg
 II / P 22nd extensively rebuilt in the 19th century
1753-1754 Bad Blankenburg City Church of St. Nicolai OrgelBadBlankenburg.jpg 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
Organ in the baroque church Katzhütte.jpg
 II / P 17th 1988 Organ repairs by the Thilo Viehrig restoration workshop, Kaulsdorf
1757 Goldlauter Protestant church Wagner organ.jpg 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 Suhl St. Marien 01.JPG II / P 30th Restored around 1975 by Karl-Heinz Schönefeld
after 1760 Vesser (Suhl) Village church Vesser village church 03.jpg
after 1760 Asbach I. 6th
1767 Weißenbrunn II / P 20th
1768-1770 Arnhem Eusebius Church
Interior, overzicht naar het organ met preekstoel - Arnhem - 20024814 - RCE.jpg
 III / P 47 Destroyed in 1944
1770 Schleusingen Johanniskirche
Schleusingen St. Johannis 03.jpg
 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)
Saalfeld Gertrudiskirche 06.jpg
 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 Friedrichroda St.Blasius 01.JPG
1785 Schönbrunn St. James
1785 Pouring evil Protestant church
1784-1787 Gersfeld (Rhoen) Ev. Parish church
Gersfeld Gersfeld Protestant Church Pulpit Organ Baptismalfont f.png
 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 Kirchheim St. Laurentius 03.jpg II / P currently not playable
before 1800 Heyda (Ilmenau) Ev.-luth. church Heyda village church 03.jpg 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

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Thuringia. 2009, p. 318 f.
  3. ↑ Hartmut Haupt: Organs in the Suhl district. Council d. Bez.Suhl, Culture Department, Suhl 1985, p. 9.
  4. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Thuringia. 2009, p. 318.
  5. ^ 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
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