Johann Rochus Egedacher

Johann Rochus Egedacher (born August 5, 1714 in Salzburg , St. Andrä ; † June 14, 1785 ibid) was the son of the organ builder Johann Christoph Egedacher and continued his workshop in Salzburg. 1747–1785 he was court organ maker in the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg .

Life

Egedacherhaus 1753–88

Lehenrößlerhaus, owned by Rochus Egedacher from 1764–1785

Johann Rochus Egedacher, in literature for short Rochus Egedacher or, incorrectly, also called Johann Josef Egedacher, was the son of Johann Christoph Egedacher and an important member of the Egedacher organ building dynasty , which together with the Butz and Freundt families were the most important representatives of the South German organ building school and so that the Bavarian and (today's) Austrian area apply.

Johann Rochus initially received his training at the Kapellhaus, in 1726 he appears as a grammarian at the Benedictine high school. Egedacher was a good organist and played several instruments. In court music he was referred to as court trombonist , the writers of the court calendar also call him the court horn player . He learned the organ-making trade from his father in the Bergstrasse 12 workshop . When he was 25, he delivered a new organ with 24 stops for the parish church of St. Michael in Bressanone . After the death of his father, he took over his workshop and received the Salzburg court organ maker's decree on September 13, 1747. He took over the court service on the same terms as his father, only the wine and bread allowance is later converted into an annual payment of 54 florins from March 9, 1758. On February 13, 1748, he married Maria Theresia Capeller from Aussee in the Gnigl parish church . The wedding was performed by his brother, Canon Johann Jakob Egedacher, and one of his witnesses was one of his other brothers, Vicar Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher . In 1753 he bought the house Linzer Gasse 66 with the inherited fortune of his wife , and in 1764 the so-called Lehenrößlerhaus , Linzer Gasse 68, in which the wage coachman (= Lehenrössler) Caspar Keller lived and stayed. Of the numerous children they shared, some died shortly after birth, another eight in childhood. Only Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher (born January 29, 1749; † January 22, 1824) and Maria Erentrudis Egedacher (born September 15, 1761) grew up or died at an advanced age.

At first business developed well, but later his order situation deteriorated dramatically. Leopold Mozart complained about the bad pianos that Egedacher had made and said that he was an old fool who used bad wood in piano construction because he wanted to withhold good old wood, like money . On January 14th, 1785 Leopold Mozart wrote to his daughter "Nannerl" Berchtold von Sonnenburg in St. Gilgen that she should not hope for a piano repair by Egedacher, because he could no longer go out of the house and was therefore no longer able , at court [..] to vote . That would now be done by the clerical son , who would now have to tune the piano as well at court as in the theater, and in the whole place . Apparently Egedacher had come back sick in December 1784 from Radstadt, where he had set up an organ. He could barely walk and suffered painfully from sand and gravel . At that time Leopold Mozart had already reported: The Egedacher house is now very bad - the woman has been sick for 2 months, now she has not only become blind, but is almost always senseless and foolish . Egedacher had apparently become bedridden as a result, because in June 1785 he had to be cut off brandy meat that had formed from his long lying down . He died on June 14, 1785 and was buried on the night of June 15 in the St. Sebastian cemetery in Salzburg .

Johann Rochus Egedacher left liabilities of 480 florins, which were offset by values ​​in the form of tools and real estate in the amount of 3991 florins. During this time Leopold Mozart complained that Egedacher's son Rochus Franz Ignaz , the ghost. Egedacher [...] is found to be good [have] some tool to the side evacuate. The heirs first sold the Lehenrößlerhaus , Linzer Gasse 68, which the testator had bought, on October 31, 1785 for 2000 florins to the coachman Johann Langwieder. Therefore, the widow had trouble getting the grace money of 8 florins at first, but this was awarded to her on April 22nd, 1786. She died on May 7, 1788 at the age of 66 and is described as blind and confused. The heirs now also sold the main house, Linzer Gasse 66, on September 27, 1788 for 1391 guilders.

List of works (selection)

Some of his proven new builds are:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1740	Brixen	Parish Church of St. Michael		II / P	24	Brixen, St Michael, Orgel.jpg Organ
around 1750	Salzburg - Gnigl	Parish Church (in the Koppl parish church since 1862)				On the advice of Father Peter Singer , the case was brought to Koppl in 1862 and has been preserved.
1750	Uttendorf (Salzburg)	Parish church
1750	Thalgau	Dean's Church		I / P	9	The case comes from Sebastian Eberl. The organ was heavily modified in 1886 by Johann Mauracher , and it was also given a mechanical console. In the mid-1980s, this was removed again in favor of a game cabinet, a circumstance that did not remedy the impression of inconsistencies in the instrument, but reinforced it.
1753	Salzburg	Hohensalzburg				Renewal of the horn factory in Salzburg ( Memento from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
1755	Salzburg	Salzburg Cathedral				Restoration of the 4 pillar organs and cleaning of the positive choir
1756	Bruck	Hundsdorf		I.	4th	In the instrument collection of the Salzburg Museum
1757	Mariapfarr	Parish church
1759	Sankt Michael im Lungau	Parish church				Only the case has been preserved, which now contains a pneumatic organ by Albert Mauracher from 1909. Rochus Egedacher transferred the old Josef Ignaz Meyenberg organ from 1701 with 6 registers to the St. Martin branch church in 1759.
1766	Berndorf near Salzburg	Parish church
1770	Salzburg	Michaelskirche		I.	4th	In 1974/75 it was restored by Herbert Gollini under the artistic advice of Gerhard Croll (Salzburg) and Hans Nadler (Bregenz) , whereby he had to reconstruct the registers Copel 8 ', Flute 4' and Octave 2 ', since only the prospectus Register Principal 4 'was preserved.
1770	Werfenweng	Parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of Mary
1776	Seekirchen	Collegiate Collegiate Church				In 1776 Rochus Egedacher installed a new organ for 780  fl. , In 1788 court organ maker Johann Schmied installed a manual pedal and register structure for 75 fl
1777	Zell am Ziller	Parish church
1779	Tittmoning	St. Laurence				The organ was destroyed in a fire in the church in 1815. As a replacement, the king gave the Johann Christoph Egedacher organ from Herrenchiemsee in 1816 .
1785	Palling					Completed by his son Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher
1785	Radstadt					Completed by Rochus Franz Ignaz Egedacher

Individual evidence

1. ^ AES , Salzburg St. Andrä, baptismal register. See: [1]
2. ^ AES, St. Andrä's death book. See: [2]
3. ↑ Heinz Schuler: Mozart's Salzburg friends and acquaintances . Biographies and Commentaries, Wilhelmshaven 1998, p. 180.
4. ↑ Johann Jakob Egedacher was later, 1752–1761, vicar in Vigaun . [3] List of pastors in Vigaun.
5. ^ Johann Georg Kajetan Egedacher, Prince Archbishop. Geistl. Rath, friend of Leopold Mozart, was pastor of Mariapfarr from 1753–1764 , [4] (list of pastors of Mariapfarr) and from 1764–1770 pastor in Siezenheim .
6. ↑ Friedrich Breitingerstrasse / Kurt Weinkamer / Gerda Dohle: artisans, brewers, farmers and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, ed. by the “Franz Triendl Foundation” of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce and the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , at the same time: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 27th supplementary volume, Salzburg 2009, p. 275.
7. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 6f.
8. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 829, lines 15f.
9. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 871, lines 78f.
10. ^ Wilhelm A. Bauer / Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Kassel u. a. 1963, Vol. III, No. 836, line 10.
11. ↑ Friedrich Breitingerstrasse / Kurt Weinkamer / Gerda Dohle: artisans, brewers, farmers and traders . Salzburg's commercial economy during Mozart's time, ed. by the “Franz Triendl Foundation” of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce and the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , at the same time: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, 27th supplementary volume, Salzburg 2009, p. 275.
12. ↑ Heinz Schuler: Mozart's Salzburg friends and acquaintances . Biographies and Commentaries, Wilhelmshaven 1998, pp. 181f.
13. ^ Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Diploma thesis at the Salzburg University of Education 1982, p. 52.
14. ↑ Organ: richly decorated, large, three-part case. A clock with a large, round dial is installed in the middle. On the four pilasters there are four putti on volutes, two singing, two fiddling. King David with the harp and two angels with trumpets are enthroned on the curved cornice in the middle. All figures wood, newly polychromed, good work by Sebastian Eberl in Neumarkt, 1755. Rich decorations with gilded, carved tendrils, gilded rocailles on the sides . In: Österreichische Kunsttopographie 10 : The monuments of the political district of Salzburg; Volume 1: Salzburg Court District (ÖKT 10/1), ed. from the Art History Institute of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation, Vienna 1913, p. 237.
15. ^ Austrian art topography 22 : The monuments of the political district Tamsweg in Salzburg (ÖKT 22), Vienna 1929, p. 63.
16. ↑ Joseph Dürlinger: Historical-statistical handbook of the Archdiocese of Salzburg in its current boundaries . Vol. 1/2: Das Decanat Tamsweg , Salzburg 1863, p. 177.
17. ^ Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organ spring in Salzburg . In: Singende Kirche , Vol. 22 (1974/75), No. 3, p. 134.
18. ^ Austrian art topography 10 : The monuments of the political district of Salzburg; Volume 1: Salzburg Court District (ÖKT 10/1), ed. from the Art History Institute of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation, Vienna 1913, p. 131.
19. ↑ Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria . Munich 1978, p. 81.

literature

• Wilhelm A. Bauer, Otto Erich German: Mozart. Letters and Notes . Complete edition in 7 volumes, ed. from the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, Kassel a. a. 1966-75, ISBN 3-7618-0401-6 . (Volume III).
• Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria . Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7654-1704-1 .
• Joseph Dürlinger: Historical-statistical handbook of the Archdiocese of Salzburg in its current limits . Vol. 1/2: The Decanat Tamsweg. Duyle'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Salzburg 1863.
• Alois Forer: Organs in Austria . Vienna / Munich 1973.
• Rupert Frieberger: Organ building in Upper Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries . With special consideration of existing instruments. Helbling, Innsbruck 1984. (Musicological contributions from the Schlägler music seminars, Volume 3)
• Ernst Hintermaier: The Salzburg Court Chapel from 1700 to 1806 . Dissertation University of Salzburg 1972.
• Austrian art topography 10 : The monuments of the political district of Salzburg; Volume 1: Salzburg Court District (ÖKT 10/1), ed. from the Art History Institute of the kk Central Commission for Monument Preservation, Vienna 1913.
• Barbara Rettensteiner: Organ and organist report Salzachpongau . Thesis. Mozarteum University, Salzburg 2001.
• Josef Saam: The old Passau organ builders . Their origin and their work from 1467 to 1744. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken. Passau 1977, pp. 108-137. (Passau Yearbook for History, Art and Folklore)
• Roman Schmeißner: The history of organ art using the example of the Thalgau dean's office . Thesis. Salzburg University of Education, 1982.
• Roman Schmeißner: Organ building in Salzburg's pilgrimage churches , Duisburg & Cologne: WiKu-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-86553-446-0 (also dissertation: Studies on organ building in pilgrimage churches of the Archdiocese of Salzburg , Mozarteum University 2012).
• Hermann Spies: The Salzburg Great Cathedral Organs . Augsburg 1929.
• Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Dissertation. University of Salzburg, 1982.

Web links

• Organ landscape Tirol Egedacher, Rochus