Johann Nikolaus Ritter

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Organ of the Huguenot Church Erlangen (1764)

Johann Nikolaus Ritter (born March 26, 1702 , † February 28, 1782 in Erlangen ) was a German organ builder .

During his apprenticeship and journeyman time, Ritter learned from Christian Müller in Amsterdam around 1726 , from 1732 from Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost and from Gottfried Silbermann .

In 1739 he settled in Hof with his partner Johann Jakob Graichen . Two years later they were allowed to call themselves court organ builders of the Hochfürstlich-Brandenburgisch-Culmbachischer Hof. Five brochures of the organs that were built together have been preserved: In Berg, Benk, Neustädtlein, Beiersdorf and Nemmersdorf. G. Silbermann's handwriting is not only evident in the external design, but also in the disposition.

The only preserved musical mechanism is in the Evangelical Reformed Huguenot Church in Erlangen (1764), restored in 2006 by Johannes Rohlf . Ritter built this organ together with his journeyman Friedrich Heidenreich . After 1765 he slowly withdrew from active organ building and spent his old age in Erlangen.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Friedrich: The organ builder Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost. On the 250th anniversary of death in 2009. In: Ars Organi . Vol. 57, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 102-106 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Information on www.orgel-information.de. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Johann Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1702
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1782
Place of death gain