Johann Nepomuk Holzhey
Johann Nepomuk Holzhey , also Holzhay (born February 26, 1741 in Rappen, today in Unteregg , † September 18, 1809 in Ottobeuren ) was a German organ builder . Alongside Karl Joseph Riepp and Joseph Gabler , he is considered to be the most important organ builder of the South German Baroque.
Life
Johann Nepomuk Holzhey first learned his trade from his uncle Alexander Holzhey, who completed the organ in Brixen Cathedral in 1758 . One of his employers was Karl Joseph Riepp , for whom he worked as a journeyman on the organ of the Salem Minster from 1767 to 1768 . In 1766 he had already taken over the workshop of his father-in-law Joseph Zettler in Ottobeuren and settled there. Two years later he was accepted into the Ottobeurer Rosary Brotherhood .
After the decline of the Swabian and Bavarian monasteries in the course of secularization in 1803, organ building went drastically downhill. Holzhey, who by then had built around 40 organs, spent his last years as a repair cabinet maker.
Holzhey took up the elements of the French classical organ introduced by Riepp in Upper Swabia and integrated them into the traditional Upper Swabian organ type. With Holzhey, the Rückpositiv has come out of use in Upper Swabian organ building.
List of works
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1769 | Holy Cross (Kempten) |
Heiligkreuz monastery choir organ |
I / P | 7th | Prospectus received | |
1774-1775 | Oberelchingen | Former abbey church of St. Peter and Paul : choir organ | I / P | 13 | not received | |
1774-1776 | Bad Buchau | Collegiate Church of St. Cornelius and Cyprian: main organ | II / P | 25th | not received | |
1775-1776 | Ursberg | Monastery church of St. Peter and St. John the Evangelist , main organ | II / P | 26th | rebuilt in the 19th century | |
around 1777 | Bad Buchau | Collegiate Church of St. Cornelius and Cyprian: choir organ | I. | 7th | Remains of windchest and action survive | |
1778 | Memmingen | St. Martin | Repair and overhaul of the Gabler organ → St. Martin organ (Memmingen) | |||
1778-1780 | Obermarchtal | Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Paul : main organ | III / P | 41 | Get prospectus; Elaborately restored in 2011 and 2012 | |
1781 | augsburg | Jesuit Church of St. Salvator | II / P | 22nd | not received | |
1782-1784 | Obermarchtal | Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Paul : choir organ | II / P | 26th | ||
1785-1787 | Red on the red | Monastery church of St. Verena and Assumption of Mary : choir organ | II / P | 32 | New building → organs of the St. Verena monastery church (red on the red) . Housing and some registers preserved. | |
1784-1787 | Ravensburg- Weissenau | Monastery church of St. Peter and Paul , main organ | III / P | 41 | New building; rearranged in the 19th century; Reconstructed in 1991 to the condition of 1787 | |
1788 | Erkheim | Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary | I / P | 10 | New construction of a parapet positive; not received | |
1789-1793 | Red on the red | Monastery church of St. Verena and Assumption of Mary : main organ | III / P | 36 | → Organs of the St. Verena monastery church (red on the red) . Originally preserved except for a few registers | |
1793 | Cell | St. Wunibald | I. | 5-6 | New construction of a positive; not received | |
1795 | Ottobeuren -Eldern | Pilgrimage church | New work for an organ from 1710 or repair, installed in 1805 by Holzhey after the pilgrimage church was demolished in the parish church of St. Johannes Evangelist in Ummendorf , today only the case from around 1710 is preserved | |||
around 1796 | Roggenburg | Roggenburg Abbey , monastery church | III / P | Reconstruction of the organ by Georg Friedrich Schmahl (1761); Change of disposition, new, free-standing console, extension of the range of the keyboard; Prospectus received | ||
1796-1798 | Roggenburg shooting | Pilgrimage Church of St. Maria Major | II / P | 16 | New building; Housing received | |
1797 | Ottobeuren | Monastery church, side chapel | now in Babenhausen | |||
1794-1797 | Neresheim | St. Ulrich and Afra monastery church : large western organ | III / P | 48 | New building; later rebuilt several times; 1979 restored to original condition, but with increased pedal circumference | |
1802-1803 | Ehingen -Kirchbierlingen | Parish Church of St. Martin | I / P | at 12 | New building | |
1809 | Dürmentingen | Parish Church of St. John Evangelist | II / P | 16 | New building; not received; Demolished in 1869 and sold to Göffingen , where it was replaced in 1911 |
literature
- Ulrich Höflacher: Johann Nepomuk Holzhey. An organ builder from Upper Swabia . In: Publication of the Society of Organ Friends . tape 121 . Oberschwäbische Verlagsanstalt, Ravensburg 1987, ISBN 3-926891-01-7 (also dissertation from the University of Tübingen, 1987).
- Wolfgang Manecke , Johannes Mayr: Historical organs in Upper Swabia. The district of Biberach . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7954-1069-X .
- Josef Edwin Miltschitzky: Ottobeuren: a European organ center. Organ builders, organs, and traditional organ music . Dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2012, especially p. 120ff. ( Full text )
- Walter Supper : Holzhay, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 575 ( digitized version ).
- Thomas Uecker: Holzhay, Johann (Nepomuk). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1015.
Web links
- Johann Nepomuk Holzhey at orgel-information.de
- Short biography in the Oberschwaben portal
- Ulrich Höflacher: Johann Nepomuk Holzhey - a south German organ builder of classicism . In: Ars Organi . Vol. 57, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 219–225 (PDF file; 418 kB).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holzhey, Johann Nepomuk |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holzhay, Johann Nepomuk |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1741 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rappen, today Unteregg , Swabia |
DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1809 |
Place of death | Ottobeuren |