Josef Brandl (organ builder)
Josef Brandl (born August 15, 1865 in Eisendorf, † June 20, 1938 in Maribor ) was a master organ builder and owner of the company Josef Brandl's Orgelbau-Anstalt in Marburg an der Drau .
Life
Josef Brandl was born in Eisendorf, about three kilometers south of Grafing near Munich . From February 17, 1878 to January 7, 1882 he completed an apprenticeship as a craftsman with the well-known master organ builder Jakob Müller in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria . After completing his apprenticeship, Brandl worked as a journeyman in this company for three more years. Then he went on a hike and worked for the important organ builder Mathias Burkard in Heidelberg and later in the also recognized organ building workshops in Vorarlberg , with the Mayer brothers in Feldkirch and Anton Behmann in Schwarzach .
After passing his master craftsman's examination, Josef Brandl worked temporarily with Ludwig Edenhofer in Regen in Lower Bavaria before settling in the Lower Styrian town of Marburg (now Maribor in Slovenia ) in September 1893, where he founded a modern organ building company.
Through solid repair and reconstruction work on older organs, Josef Brandl quickly convinced the episcopal ordinariate of his abilities, so that his company was extremely successful from the start. In the following years he mainly manufactured small and medium-sized organs for country churches in the eastern area of the Diocese of Lavant , in Lower Styria and in the western Zala and Warasdin counties of Hungary . Thanks to numerous technical improvements and tonal adjustments, Brandl's “Orgelbau Anstalt” enjoyed great trust among clients. Josef Brandl mainly built organs with a romantic disposition and pneumatic action , in particular he made considerable progress in refining the cone chest .
In his working life, Brandl and his employees demonstrably manufactured 149 organs. These are provided with an enamel plate on the gaming table , on which the company name and the serial number ( opus ) can be seen. His largest and most famous instruments are in Maribor ( basilica , 1900, 34 registers and cathedral , 30 registers) in Brestanica / Reichenburg ( basilica , 1928, 40 registers) and in Dubrovnik (Sv.Vlaha, 1937, opus 144, 30 registers) .
Works
| opus | year | place | church | Manuals | register | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | Pernica (St. Margarethen an der Pesnitz) | Parish Church of St. Margarethe | 1 | 9 | Presumably Brandl's first organ. | |
| 1894 | Markovci (St. Marxen) | Parish Church of St. Mark | 1 | 10 | Replaced in 2007 by a new organ
(Orglarska delavnica Maribor, 25 / II + P). |
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| 1894 | Središče ob Dravi (Polstrau) | Branch church of the Sorrowful Mother of God | 1 | 5 | ||
| 1895 | Varaždin (Warasdin) | St. Nicholas Church | 2 | 20th | ||
| 9 | 1898 | Slovenska Bistrica (Windischfeistritz) | Marienkirche | 1 | 11 | |
| 1898 | Čadram- Oplotnica (Tschadram-Oplotnica) | Parish Church of St. John the Baptist | 2 | 16 | Restored in 1998 by Anton Škrabl. | |
| 1898 | Šoštanj (Schönstein) | Holy Spirit Church in Ravne | 1 | 6th | ||
| 1899 | Jarenina (Jahring) | Parish Church of St. Mary | 1 | 10 | ||
| 1900 | Gornja Radgona (Oberradkersburg) | Parish Church of St. Peter | 2 | 12 | 1993 replaced by a new organ
(Orglarska delavnica Maribor, 20 / II + P). |
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| 12 | 1900 | Maribor (Marburg) | Basilica of the Mother of Mercy (Maribor) | 2 | 32 | 1992 restored and enlarged by
Anton Jenko (now 3 manuals and 41 stops). |
| 1900 | Dolič | Parish Church of St. Florian | 1 | 5 | ||
| 1901 | Vurberk (Wurmberg) | Parish Church of St. Mary | 1 | 8th | ||
| 1901 | Puščava (Maria in the desert) | Parish church | 2 | 16 | ||
| 1901 | Polje ob Sotli (Felddorf) | Parish Church of St. Nicholas | 1 | 8th | ||
| 1902 | Leskovec pri Krškem (Haselbach) | Parish Church of Sorrowful Mother of God | 2 | 13 | Replaced in 2013 by a new organ by Anton Škrabl. | |
| 1902 | Ljutomer (Luttenberg) | Parish Church of St. John the Baptist | 2 | 14th | ||
| 1903 | Gorišnica | Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch | 1 | 9 | ||
| 28 | 1903 | Ptuj (Pettau) | City parish church St. Georg | 2 | 24 | Restored in 1996 and enlarged by
Anton Jenko (now 3 manuals and 37 stops). |
| 30th | 1903 | Hoče (Kötsch) | Filial church of St. Nicholas | 1 | 6th | |
| 38 | 1903 | Vukovina | Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 13 | ||
| 1904 | Sv. Tomaž pri Ormožu (St. Thomas on Big Sunday) | Parish Church of St. Thomas | 1 | 9 | ||
| 44 | 1905 | Tabor | Parish Church of St. George | 2 | 12 | |
| 45 | 1905 | Kotlje (Köttelach) | Parish Church of St. Margarethe | 1 | 6th | |
| 46 | 1905 | Malečnik (Malletschnig) | Parish Church of St. Peter | 2 | 10 | |
| 1905 | Cezanjevci (Zesendorf) | Parish Church of St. Rochus and Sebastian | 1 | 6th | ||
| 51 | 1906 | Pekrska gorca (Pickerndorf) | Church of Mary Seven Sorrows on Calvary | 7th | ||
| 1906 | Circulans | Parish Church of St. Barbara | 1 | 9 | ||
| 1906 | Sankt Georgen im Lavanttal | Parish church of St. Georgen in Lavanttal | 1 | 6th | ||
| 63 | 1908 | Hoče (Kötsch) | Parish Church of St. George | 2 | 10 | 1996 replaced by a new organ
(Orglarska delavnica Maribor, 20 / II + P). |
| 67 | 1908 | Laporje | Parish Church of St. Philip and Jacob | 1 | 1986 replaced by a new organ
(Anton Jenko, 15 / II + P). |
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| 70 | 1908-09 | Maribor (Marburg) | Cathedral of St. John the Baptist | 2 | 30th | 1981 replaced by a new organ
(Walcker, 37 / III + P). |
| 76 | Sv. Martin na Muri | Parish Church of St. Martin | 11 | |||
| 1909 | Cirkovce (Zirkovetz) | Parish Church of St. Mary | 2 | 13 | ||
| 78 | 1909 | Straß in Styria | Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary | 2 | 10 | Renovated in 2011 by Andreas Utz. |
| 84 | 1910 | Leutschach | Parish Church of St. Nicholas | 2 | 22nd | Renovated in 2013 by Franz Windtner. |
| 89 | 1910 | Štrigova (in Croatia) | Parish Church of St. Maria Magdalena | 10 | ||
| 1912 | Kamnica (chamois) | Parish Church of St. Martin | 1 | 10 | Renovated in 1990 and partially converted to a mechanical action mechanism. | |
| 1913 | Stari trg pri Slovenj Gradcu (Altenmarkt) | Parish Church of St. Radegunde | 2 | 10 | 1998 replaced by a new organ
(Orglarska delavnica Maribor, 22 / II + P). |
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| 109
104 |
1913 |
Gamlitz
Sveti Miklavž pri Ormožu |
Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul
Parish Church of St. Miklavž (Nikolai) |
2
2 |
15th
17th |
Worn out in 1985.
1979 Replaced by an electronic organ. The organ cabinet has remained to this day |
| 1914 | Wound shoe | Parish Church of St. Nicholas | 2 | 15th | 1969 extended to 21 registers by Konrad Hopferwieser; Renovated in 2008 by Christian Hartinger and equipped with a new electric gaming table. | |
| 1917 | Bad Radkersburg | Frauenkirche Mariahilf | 8th | |||
| 1923 | Našice | Franjevačka crkva sv. Antuna Padovanskog | 15th | |||
| 1926 | Velika Polana | Heart of Jesus Church | 1 | 7th | ||
| 130 | 1928 | Brestanica (Reichenburg) | Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes (Brestanica) | 3 | 40 | Restored by Simon Kolar in 2002/03. |
| 1928 | Cavtat | Church of Sv. Nikole | 16 | |||
| 132 | 1929 | Starše (Sankt Johann am Draufeld) | Parish church hl. John the Baptist | 2 | 11 | Replaced in 2006 by a new organ
(Škrabl, 18 / II + P). |
| 144 | 1937 | Dubrovnik | Church of St. Blaise, Sveti Vlaho | 30th | ||
| 149 | 1938 | Vransko (Franz) | Parish Church of St. Michael | 2 | 16 | Replaced in 1993 by a new organ ( Orglarska delavnica Maribor , 18 / II + P) in the old case by Brandl. |
| Krapina | Franjevački samostan | 10 |
See also
literature
- Michael Napotnik : The basilica of St. Mary, Mother of Mercy, in the Grazervorstadt zu Marburg . Marburg 1909.
- Orgle v cerkvah Lavantinske škofije . Episcopal Ordinariate, Maribor 1911.
- Ladislav Saban: Orgulje slovenskih graditelja u Hrvatskoj . Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti, Zagreb 1980, p. 5-84 .
- Milko Bizjak, Edo Škulj: Orgle na Slovenskem . Državna založba Slovenije, Ljubljana 1985.
- Edo Škulj: Brandl, Josef (Josip) . In: Music in the past and present . Person part, band 3 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, column 738.
- Štefan A. Ferenčak: Josip Brandl in njegova orglarska delavnica . In: Cerkveni glasbenik . 2003, issue 3/4, p. 18-19 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandl, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Organ builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisendorf / Grafing |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1938 |
| Place of death | Maribor |