Johann Wilhelm Schöler

Schöler organ in the former Altenberg monastery

Johann Wilhelm Schöler (* around 1723 in Schemmerhausen ; † November 6, 1793 in Bad Ems ) was a German organ builder.

life and work

Johann Wilhelm Schöler learned the trade from Johann Heinrich Kleine from Freckhausen near Schemmerhausen. Nothing further is known about his wandering years. In Neuwied he later worked with the clock and organ maker Christian Kinzig.

On September 24, 1749, Schöler married Maria Christiana Friederica Werner (1732–1767) in Bad Ems. From this marriage there were seven children, of which only two daughters and the son Christian Ernst survived the parents. After the marriage, Schöler settled in Bad Ems, where he quickly achieved a great reputation.

Schöler built a total of 49 organs between 1748 and 1792. Shortly before his death in 1792, he was granted the privilege of building court organs. This gave him (together with his son) the privilege to build all new organs and to repair all existing organs in the Katzenelnbogen area and in the Eppstein estate . After his death, his son Christian Ernst Schöler (1756–1832) took over his organ workshop, which continued until 1836 in the third generation.

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column, the Roman number denotes the number of manuals , a capital "P" denotes an independent pedal , a small "p" denotes an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column denotes the number of sounding registers .

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1748	Bad Ems	Martinskirche		I / P	15th	His first organ; not received
1750	Heidenrod	Gronau Monastery		I.	4th	Positive; Moved to Reckenroth in 1817 , in the Wiesbaden Museum since 1895
1752	Reitzenhain	Ev. church		I / p	8th
1752	Niedertiefenbach	Holy cross		I / p	9	1830 Daniel Raßmann added an independent pedal with two registers ;
1754	Hilden	Reformation Church		I / p	12	Prospectus received
1754	Düsseldorf- Urdenbach	Ev. Village church		I / P	11	Get prospectus; Reconstruction and expansion to II / P / 22 by Hubert Fasen (2011-2013)
1756	Altwied	Ev. church		I / P	11	Reconstructed in 1992 by Oberlinger and expanded to II / P / 18
1757	Egenroth	Ev. church		I / p	9	Rebuilt several times; today I / P / 11
1757	Altenberg near Wetzlar	Altenberg Monastery		II / P	23	→ Main article : Organ of the Altenberg monastery
1763	Miehlen	St. Mary		I / P	12	Completely refurbished in 1968 by Hardt
1763	Kettenbach (Aarbergen)	Ev. church		I / P	13	Receive
1764	Patersberg	Ev. church		I / P	9	Rebuilt in 1925; receive
around 1765	Gemünden	Collegiate church		II / P	24	Largely preserved
1766	Dörsdorf	Ev. church		I / P		Receive
1771	Weyer (Rhein-Lahn district)	Ev. church		I / P		Rebuilt in 1927; receive
1772	Gemmerich	Ev. church		I / P		Attribution, unknown origin, implemented by Gustav Raßmann in 1887
1772	anger	Ev. church		I / P	11	Receive
1773	Herschbach	St. Anna		III / P	34	Its largest organ; rebuilt several times, replaced in 1915; Prospectus received
1774	Niedermeilingen - Heidenrod	Ev. church		I / P	11	Largely preserved
around 1774	Oberwerth	Benedictine Abbey
1782	Büttelborn	Protestant church		I / P	16	Receive
around 1786	Ehrenbreitstein	Ev. church		I / P		Arrived in 1921 in St. Lubentius, Kell (Andernach) ; rebuilt
1790-1792	Klingelbach	Ev. church		I / P	18th	1885 rebuilt by Karl Voigt and extended by a second manual (II / P / 24); receive
1789-1797	Gladenbach	Martinskirche		I / P	18th	Together with Christian Ernst Schöler; rebuilt preserved (today II / P / 28)

literature

• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Bernhard Hemmerle :  Schöler, Johann Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 1356-1358. ( online )
• Jürgen Rodeland: The Schöler organ building workshop in Bad Ems . Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-87397-512-2 .
• Jürgen Rodeland: Schöler. In: Music in the past and present . (Person part). Vol. 14. 2nd edition Bärenreiter u. Metzler, Kassel a. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-476-41009-9 , Sp. 1570-1271.
• Jürgen Rodeland: The Schöler organ (1756) in the Protestant church in Altwied and its reconstruction (1991/92) by Gebr. Oberlinger. In: Ars Organi , Vol. 41, No. 1, 1993, pp. 27-31.
• Altenberg Monastery Association (publisher): The Schöler organ in the former Altenberg Monastery. Solms-Oberbiel 2007.

Sound carrier

• The Schöler organ, built in 1757 in the former Altenberg monastery. 1978. Organo Phon E 10001 (LP). (Reinhardt Menger: works by LN Clerambault, W. Boyce, CPE Bach, JS Bach).
• JS Bach works. 1984. Organo Phon NR 90016 (LP). (Reinhardt Menger in Altenberg).

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Schöler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Organ in Düsseldorf-Urdenbach