Johann Paul Geycke
Johann Paul Geycke (* 1726 ; † 1804 in Hamburg ) was an 18th century organ builder from Hamburg .
Geycke runs his own workshop in Hamburg. Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1748–1806) was his journeyman . From 1765 Geycke succeeded in ousting the organ builder Johann Daniel Busch (1735–1787) from Hamburg from Itzehoe .
His son Joachim Wilhelm Geycke (1768–1840) continued his father's workshop. His grandson was the Hamburg organ builder Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller (1830-1897), his son-in-law was the organ builder Balthasar Wohlien (1745-1804) from the well-known Altona organ builder family Wohlien .
Works
year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1752 | Kirchwerder | St. Severini |
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II / P | Repair of the organ by Hinrich Speter (1641) | |
1763 | Eppendorf | St. John's | Repairs and maintenance | |||
1765-76 / 1780 | Hamm | Trinity Church | Maintenance of the organ from 1765 to 1776, cost estimate for repair in 1780, then repair and renewal of some registers | |||
1766 / 70-72 | Borstel (Jork) | Saint Nikolai |
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II / P | 20th | 1766 Repairs: bellows , ducts, wind chests , mechanics, keyboards , tremulants and reeds are repaired. In 1770–72 the organ was completely rebuilt and relocated to the west gallery; In addition, the organ gets a new case, two additional bellows, new channels, two new pedal drawers, a new mechanism, a new trombone 16 'and Octav 8' in the pedal; the cornet 2 '(Ped) is converted to the trumpet 4'; the principal 8 'in the HW is foiled and the BW doors are given foiled blind whistles; all works receive a valve and the cymbal stars are placed in the bass towers. |
1768 | Hamburg old town | Saint Petri | repair | |||
1768 | St. Pauli | Pesthofkirche, Annenstrasse | New building | |||
1774-75 | Hamburg old town | Saint Jacobi |
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IV / P | 60 | Repair and installation of a new game table with four manuals → main article |
1777/1796 | Altona | Saint Trinity | repair |
literature
- Gustav Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38 , 1939, pp. 289-373 ( online - Geycke on p. 369).
- Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 .
- Jürgen Rodeland: The Schnitger organ in Cappel St. Petri and Pauli . Verlag der Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-921029-52-X ( arpschnitger.nl [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
Web links
- Photo of the gaming table built by Geycke in the main church Sankt Jacobi
- Organ St. Jakobi in Borstel, drawing by Geycke (PDF; 306 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 180
- ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 36
- ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 70
- ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school , page 68
- ↑ Martin Böcker: Borstel - Sankt Nikolai and Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 29
- ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 67
- ^ Organ Institute quarterly . No. 5/6, 1955, p. 32 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Thomas Lipski: Hans Henny Jahnn's influence on organ building . Olms, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-487-10321-4 , p. 112 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 66
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Geycke, Johann Paul |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1726 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1804 |
Place of death | Hamburg |