Johann Peter Geissel

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Johann Peter Geissel (* 1636 in Worms ; † unknown) was a German organ builder and organist . He is considered the leading organ builder in Mainz in the 17th century.

Life

His father was the organ maker Georg Geissel, who moved with his family from Gernsheim to Mainz in the middle of the 17th century . In 1688 Johann Peter Geissel was also organist at the St. Christoph Church in Mainz. According to the older literature, the later Domkapitel organ maker Johannes Kohlhaas the Elder learned organ building from Geissel. Since Geissel is no longer verifiable in Mainz after 1689, this view has meanwhile been disputed.

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The organ built in 1667 for the St. Christoph Church in Mainz , which has been in the Catholic Church since 1773. Parish church St. Petrus in Ketten in Gau-Bischofsheim is considered to be his best-preserved work despite the renovation by Jakob Köhler in 1847, the addition of a pedal by Philipp Embach in 1870 and the loss of all original prospect pipes during the First World War .

In the years 1662 to 1664 he built an organ for the Franciscan Church in Mainz, which has been in the Catholic Church since 1759. Parish Church of St. Remigius (Ingelheim) is located. After two far-reaching renovations - in 1933 by the organ builder Michael Körfer (* 1868 - † 1950), since 1907 in Gau-Algesheim, and in 1976 by the organ builder Erich Breitmann, Nieder-Olm - only four of today's twenty registers are wholly or partially nor from Geissel. The organ seemed too small to the Franciscans, so that about 100 years later it was decided to buy a larger organ and the Geissel organ was sold to Ingelheim. This organ is considered to be the oldest in the diocese of Mainz and in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

An organ built by Johann Peter Geissel in St. Emmeran (Mainz) in 1682 , the case by J. Antz, was renewed in 1903 by Martin Joseph Schlimbach (* 1841; † 1914) from Würzburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the diocese of Mainz. Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2838-9 , p. 119.
  2. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders. Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 1994, p. 111 f.
  3. ↑ Johannes Mayr: Joseph Gabler organ maker. Biberach 2000, p. 13 ff.
  4. ↑ Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the diocese of Mainz. Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2838-9 , p. 40.
  5. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1984, p. 301.
  6. ↑ Parish Church of St. Remigius & St. Kilian, p. 29. A tour of the church and its history. Retrieved September 19, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Remigius and St. Kilian (eds.), Werner Mazi, Tobias Schäfer: Parish church of St. Remigius and St. Kilian, Ingelheim am Rhein, a tour of the church and its history. Ingelheim am Rhein 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038462-2 , p. 29.
  8. ↑ August Schuchert : The Mainz churches and chapels. Publisher Johann Falk III. Sons, Mainz 1931.

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personal data
SURNAME Geissel, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder and organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH after 1688