Johannes Mitterreither

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Mitterreither organ from 1774 in the Lokhorstkerk ( Leiden )
Mitterreither organ from 1780 in the Koepelkerk ( Berlikum )

Johannes Josephus Mitterreither (* 1733 in Graz ; † January 20, 1800 in Leiden ) was an Austrian organ builder whose work is only documented in the Netherlands from around 1755. The sources leave some aspects of his life in the dark.

Life

He came from a family of organ builders. Around 1755 he joined the Rotterdam organ builder JJ Moreau , presumably with a completed apprenticeship . In 1761 he settled in Gouda . From 1766 he was in the service of the organ builder Hermanus Hess . In 1769 he left Gouda in an economically precarious situation and settled as an independent organ builder in Leiden, where he was able to quickly gain a foothold, as the market there had become free through the death of a master Pieter Assendelft. In 1781 his wife Hillegonda Ongarin, widow of a Gerardus Bekkers, died and left him with two daughters. In 1782 he married Maria van Gils from Breda according to the Catholic rite. An invoice from 1798 reveals the use of an idiosyncratic mixed language of Dutch and German even after forty years in the Netherlands.

Mitterreither died suddenly in 1800 and was buried in Oegstgeest .

Mitterreither is one of the most important Dutch organ builders of the 18th century. His work is estimated at forty church and house organs , the majority of which were lost, especially his main work in the Hoorner Grote Kerk (forty voices, three manuals and a free pedal ; destroyed by fire in 1838). Preserved organs can be found in the Zaandammer Sint-Bonifatiuskerk , the Berlikummer Koepelkerk , the Leiden Lokhorstkerk and the Heilige Lodewijkkerk there . In the Sint-Laurentiuskerk in Voorschoten , parts of a Mitterreither organ from 1792 have been preserved.

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SURNAME Mitterreither, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitterreither, Johannes Josephus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1800
Place of death Suffer