Johann Wöckherl

Johann Wöckherl (* around 1594 (?); † May 4, 1660 in Vienna ) was an Austrian organ builder . Its organ in the Franciscan Church in Vienna from 1642 is the oldest playable organ in Austria, the organ in Sopron from 1633 the oldest preserved in Hungary .

Gaming table in Vienna

Life

There is hardly any historical news about Johann Wöckherl's person. The oldest mention of repairs in Vienna is from 1629; he died in Vienna in 1660.

List of works (selection)

Some new buildings by Johann Wöckherl in Austria , Hungary and Moravia are known, as well as those in Austria and today's Slovakia . The organs of the Franciscan Church in Vienna and St. Georg in Sopron have been preserved , as well as brochures ascribed to them in Pöllaberg in Lower Austria and Skalica in Slovakia, here in bold.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	builder	Remarks
1629	Wiener Neustadt	Dom				documented	Repairs
1633	Ödenburg (Sopron), Hungary	St. George		I.	?	Monogram HW in the organ	Wooden flute 8 'from 1580 ?, 1756 new prospectus and conversion to I / 10, damaged in 1944, extension in 1953, 2003–2008 restoration and reconstruction of the organ from 1756, oldest surviving organ in Hungary
1634	Vienna	Castle chapel		I.	4th	attributed	Positive, given to Páty in Hungary by Empress Maria Theresia around 1780, destroyed in 1945
1635	Heiligenkreuz , Lower Austria	Monastery church				documented	Positive, destroyed in 1683
1640/1642	Vienna	Augustinian Church				documented	extension
1641-1642	Vienna	Franciscan Church		II / P	20th	documented	New building, oldest playable organ in Austria → organ
1647	Groß-Enzersdorf , Lower Austria	church				documented	New building for 147 guilders
1648	Kirnberg , Lower Austria	church				documented	New building
1648	St. Gotthard , Lower Austria	church				documented	New building, burned in 1758
1648	Pöllaberg, Lower Austria	Branch church		I.	4th	attributed	Prospectus received, positive
1649	Skalitz (Skalica), today Slovakia	St. Michael			16	attributed	Prospectus received, 2007 new work by M. Walcker-Mayer
1650	Heiligenkreuz	Monastery church				documented	Positive for 500 guilders, destroyed in 1683
1651	Vienna	St. Michael				documented	big organ, repair
1652	Vienna	St. Michael				documented	Repair of the small organ
1655	Kremsier (Kroměříž), Moravia	St. Mauritius		I.	6th	documented	New construction of two positives
1658	Olomouc (Olomouc), Moravia	St. Wenceslas Cathedral		I.	7th	documented	New construction of a positive with Subbas 16 ′
1660	Schwarzenbach an der Gölsen , Lower Austria	church				documented	New building

literature

• Hans Heiling: The organ builder Johann Wöckherl - a Viennese master of the early baroque. In: Singing Church . Volume 45/2. 1998. pp. 89-91.
• Gottfried Allmer: Wöckherl (Weckerl), Johann. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
• Stanislav Šurin: Johann Wöckherl - profil organára. In: Adoramus te, časopis o duchovnej hudbe. 2/1999. Pp. 11-13. (Slovak), PDF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orgonája Cathedral, with history and dispositions (Hungarian)
2. ↑ Orgonája with photos and history (Hungarian)
3. ↑ Johann Woeckherl Organ in Sopron with a different disposition (from 1957?) And information on the register from 1580 (English)
4. ↑ Skalica organ (Slovak)

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