Johannes Rohlf

Johannes Rohlf with his wife Elisabeth (2010)

Johannes Rohlf (born October 6, 1936 in Bautzen ) is a German organ builder .

Life

Workshop in Neubulach

Johannes Rohlf is one of nine children born to the married couple Else Rohlf. Küchler and Herbert Rohlf. After finishing school, Rohlf learned organ building from 1950 in his native town in the Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen workshop . He completed his training in 1953 with a successful journeyman's examination. During his apprenticeship years he worked for the Rieger Orgelbau workshops (1959–1960), Alfred Führer and Victor Gonzales (from 1961). After completing the master course at the college for musical instrument making in Ludwigsburg (Oscar-Walcker-Schule) in 1963, he went into business for himself a year later with a workshop in Ruit on the Fildern . In 1986 the company moved into a larger workshop in Neubulach -Seitzental, which was expanded in 1999 to include an assembly hall with an office wing.

His wife Elisabeth Rohlf studied school music at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and was a high school teacher in Stuttgart, Münster and Esslingen. She founded the “Ensemble für Alte Musik Stuttgart” and gave concerts with the “Schola cantorum Berlin” all over Germany. Together with her husband, she runs the Rohlf organ building in Seitzental.

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The opus list includes more than 200 new buildings and restorations in Germany, other European countries and Japan. In addition to organs for churches, Rohlf created practice instruments for universities and numerous (partly historicizing) small instruments for private ownership. Rohlfs new buildings are characterized by a timeless brochure design with modern design of the veil boards . The dispositions and the concepts are based on classic organ building. This includes the exclusive use of natural raw materials that are processed in-house, the construction of casings in solid construction and mechanical actions as well as the use of well-tempered moods .

List of works (selection)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1964	1	Bergneustadt - Wiedenest	Evangelical Kreuzkirche		I.	7th	Commissioned by Rieger Orgelbau (Josef von Glatter-Götz)
1969	6th	Ludwigsburg	Kreuzkirche		II / P	22nd	The only Rohlf organ with electrical register switching, 4 free combinations that are triggered with small panels above the upper keyboard, also for blowing
1969	7th	Buchenbach- Unteribental	Our Father Chapel		II / P	9
1974	26th	Berlin-Wittenau	St. Nicholas Church		II / P	25th	until 2006 in Berlin-Reinickendorf, Luther Church
1974	28	Nieder-Mockstadt	Ev. church		I.	6th
1979	49	Illerbeuren	Parish Church of the Assumption		II / P	14th
1982	56	augsburg	studio XVII		I.	5	Italian house organ by Roland Götz based on Italian models
1983	59	Feuerbach	City Church		III / P	18th
1985	66	Stuttgart	Forest Church		II / P	17th	Tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
1986	72	Bayreuth	College for Protestant Church Music		II / P	15th	Practice organ
1987	77	gain	St. Mark		II / P	19th	Restoration of the organ by Johannes Glis (1733) and extension to include a rear work and a new, added pedal
1989	85	Bad Münder am Deister	Petri-Pauli Church		III / P	23	Tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
1990	86	Baden-Baden	Collegiate church		III / P	31	based on Silbermann; integrated 9 registers from Voit (1905) → organ
1991	90	Loerrach	Christ Church		II / P	23	Tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
1992	92	Gundelfingen	Brother Klaus Church		II / P	24	2 Zimbelsterne , mood according to Young-Sorge
1993	95	Neukirchen (Ostholstein)	St. Johannis		I / P	15th	Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Hinrich Wiese and Son (1726, partly 1553)
1994	100	Traunstein	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	21st	Tongues in the North German style, mood according to Young-Sorge
1995	105	Munich	Immanuel Church		II / P	23	Tuning according to Young Sorge → organ
1996	106	Uttenreuth	St. Kunigunde		II / P	19th	Almost the same mood
1996	107	Stuttgart	University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart		III / p	11	Mood after young concern
1997Nütschau	110	Travenbrück -Nütschau	St. Ansgar		I / P	9	Mood after young concern
1998	124	Kemnat (Ostfildern)	St. Mary Queen		II / P	14th	Mood after young concern
1999	125	Aisch (Adelsdorf)	St. Laurence		II / P	13	Tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
1999	128	Eckenhaid	Friedenskirche		I / p	10	a pedal transmission, mood according to Young Sorge
2000	131	Preetz	City Church		II / P	26th	Restoration / reconstruction of the Plambeck organ (1733), tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2000	132	Ölbronn-Dürrn	Protestant church		II / P	16	Mood after young concern
2000	133	Bamberg	Bamberg Cathedral , Nail Chapel		I / P	7th	mobile, mood according to Frischknecht II
2001	138	Marketers	St. Michael		II / P	20th	Draft after the English organ of St Stephen's Church in Old Radnor, tuning according to Young-Sorge
2002	139	Altensteig	Evangelical town church		III / P	27	New building in the historical housing of Weinmar (1772), mood according to Young-Sorge
2002	145	Harrislee	Church of Reconciliation		II / P	20th
2003	153	Stuttgart	House organ Ludger Lohmann		III / P	14th	4 pedal transmissions
2004	155	Hirsau	St. Aurelius		II / P	13
2004	156	Muenster	St. Lamberti , choir organ		I / p	7th	split registers, tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2004	157	Uetzing	St. John the Baptist		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Augustin Bittner (1865)
2004	158	Altbulach	Mauritius Church		I / P	7th	Tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2005	160	Bamberg	St. Urban		II / P	17th	4 transmissions into the pedal, mood according to Young Sorge
2005	163	Stegaurach	Immaculate Conception of Mary		II / P	23	3 pedal transmissions, mood according to Young Sorge
2006	165	Hamburg-Poppenbüttel	Market Church Poppenbüttel		III / P	35	Mood according to Frischknecht ( 1 ⁄ 7-point ) → organ
2006	166	gain	St. John the Baptist		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Johann Nikolaus Ritter (1764)
2006	167	Aschaffenburg	James Church		II / p	9	two transmissions in the pedal, mood according to Young Sorge
2007	168	Coburg	St. Augustine		III / P	21st	Mood after young concern
2007	170	Mering	St. Michael		III / P	31	Tuning according to FA Valotti (modified) → organ
2008	171	Ling moss	Assumption Day		II / P	21st	in a Mauracher case
2009	175	Bozen - Gries-Quirein	Chapel House St. Benedict		II / P	17th	4 transmissions from the main work into the pedal, mood according to Young-Sorge
2009	177	Hofgeismar	Brunnenkirche		II / P	13
2010	182	Olching	Johanneskirche		II / P	11	2 transmissions into the pedal, Neidhardt tuning (modified)
2012	185	Obermarchtal Monastery	Münster (main organ)		III / P	43	Restoration of the organ by Johann Nepomuk Holzhey (1780–1782)
2013	187	Amlingstadt	St. Aegidius		II / P	21st
2014	190	Hamburg-Bergstedt	Bergstedt Church		II / P	17th	four transmissions from the main work into the pedal, tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2014/2015	191	Vienna	Benedictine Sisters of Adoration		II / P	17th	3 pedal transmissions, tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2015	193	Gügel	St. Pancras		I / P	8th	Restoration of the cupping organ (1703)
2015	194	Niederrodenbach	Ev. church		I / P	15th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Syer (1765–1766)
2016	196	Inzersdorf (Vienna)	St. Nicholas		II / P	13	taking into account the historical return positive ; 3 transmissions from the main work to the pedal, tuning according to Werckmeister (1691)
2016/2017	197	Bobenthal	St. Michael		I / P	12	Restoration of the Ubhaus organ (1817)
2018	201	Effeltrich	St. George		II / P	17th	4 transmissions in the pedal; Mood after young concern

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
• Johannes Rohlf: Every room is looking for a sound. In: Organ - journal for the organ . 1/2007, p. 40 ff. ( Online ).
• Johannes Rohlf: Possibilities for promoting quality in organ building. Orgelbau Rohlf, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1979.
• Johannes Rohlf: Organs from the Seitzental. Pape, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-921140-97-0 .
• Johannes Rohlf: The restoration of the Holzhey organ in the Münster Obermarchtal. Pape, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-921140-96-3 .

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders. 1994, p. 326.
2. ^ Rohlf: Organs from the Seitzental. 2014, p. 9.
3. ↑ orgelbau-rohlf.de: catalog raisonné , accessed on November 15, 2019.
4. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 281.
5. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 675 .