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
1752	Kirchwerder	St. Severini		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		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		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

1. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 180
2. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 36
3. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 70
4. ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school , page 68
5. ↑ Martin Böcker: Borstel - Sankt Nikolai and Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 29
6. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 67
7. ^ Organ Institute quarterly . No. 5/6, 1955, p. 32 ( digitized version )
8. ↑ Thomas Lipski: Hans Henny Jahnn's influence on organ building . Olms, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-487-10321-4 , p. 112 ( digitized version )
9. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school , page 66