Joseph Goebel

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Joseph Goebel (also Josef Goebel ; born July 9, 1893 in Pécs , Hungary ; † August 23, 1969 in Leichlingen , Rhineland ) was a German organ builder and music researcher in Danzig and Leichlingen.

Life

At the time of his birth, his father Bruno Goebel was working for the organ building company of Józef Angster in Pécs (Fünfkirchen). The mother was Emma, ​​nee Beck. Joseph Goebel learned from 1908 in his father's workshop in Königsberg . From 1914 he did not have to do military service because of a heart condition.

In 1920 Joseph Goebel relocated to Danzig and founded his own organ building company, as it was difficult to bring instruments from Königsberg to the new Poland after the changed borders. In 1921 he married. In 1923 he built his first organ. In 1932 Joseph Goebel became a co-owner of the Bruno Goebel Söhne company in Königsberg, but stayed in Danzig. By 1944, over 90 new organs were built and rebuilt.

In 1945 Goebel moved to Leichlingen in the Rhineland and took over the organ building workshop from Hugo Koch in the secularized church of St. Johannes there. There he is said to have built and repaired 34 organs. Around 1967 he gave up the workshop and published a book about the sound of organ pipes.

Organs (selection)

93 works by Joseph Goebel in Gdansk and Poland at the time are known, including over 40 new buildings. The instruments were provided with pneumatic or electric actions. Goebel sometimes experimented with rare seventh, ninth and undecimal registers in larger organs. After 1945 he created 34 new buildings and other works in the Rhineland. Some of the organs have been preserved.

New organs

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1923 Danzig St. Joseph II / P 23 Opus 1
1924 Prussian Stargard (Starogard Gdański) Church, today Matthäuskirche II / P 16 preserved, in the neo-Gothic prospectus by Terletzki from 1861
1927 Posen (Poznan) All Saints Church
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 IV / P 56? electrical connection to the organ at the altar, rebuilt by Goebel in 1934 to match the sound of the organ movement, restored 1972–1975, today IV / P, 56
1929 New Town (Wejherowo) Franciscan monastery church of St. Anna II / P 17th receive
1929 Soldau (Działdowo) Protestant church II / P 20th
1932 Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) Church, now the Basilica of St. Vincent a Paulo II / P 22nd Preserved, damaged in 1945, moved to the choir gallery in the 1970s and expanded to II / P, 31, restored in 1989
1933 Danzig - Langfuhr St. Stanislaus II / P 20th
1936 Gdansk sand pit Christ the King Church II / P 18th Relocated here in 1939, Pallottine Church
1941 New Town (Wejherowo) Trinity Church large organ, electrical connection with choir organ, replaced by Kamiński
1941 Danzig State Theater II / P 20th
1942 Posen (Poznan) State Theater II / P 18th
1944 Sierakowitz (Sierakowice) church I / P 12
1944 Berlin Youth home I / P 10
after 1946 Freudenberg , Siegerland St. Mary II / P 15th using the pipe material prepared by Hugo Koch, demolished around 1965 with the church
1948 Mainz-Kostheim , Wiesbaden St. Kilian II / P 15th 1974 remodeling, replaced in 2005
1956 Echzell Holy cross II / P 12 receive

More work

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1927 Posen (Poznan) Holy Cross Church IV / P 64 Extension of the Sauer organ
1935 Oliva (Oliwa) Monastery church
Catedral de Oliwa, Gdansk, Polonia, 2013-05-21, DD 09.jpg
 IV / P 87 + 14 Extensive renovation, replaced about half of the pipes, electro-pneumatic action, new free-standing console, electrical connection with choir organ, both together with 101 stops and 6,800 pipes, the largest organ in the Baltic region at that time

Publications

Joseph Goebel wrote a small book on the sound of the organ pipe, in which he also advocated a more modern sound in the registers.

  • Theory and practice of organ pipe sound: intonation and tuning. A manual for organ builders and organists. (= Series of publications Das Musikinstrument, Volume 9) . Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt / Main, 1st edition 1967, 2nd edition 1975, ISBN 3-92011236-9 . 94 pages.

literature

  • Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca , Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944. Volume II, 2. From Johann Preuss to E. Kemper & Sohn, Lübeck / Bartenstein. Siebenquart, Cologne 2015, pp. 479f., 498–501, 574–588.
  • Wolfgang J. Brylla: Joseph Goebel . In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. p. 277.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of St. Johannes Archdiocese of Cologne
  2. ^ Wolfgang J. Brylla: Joseph Goebel. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner: Lsxikon north German organ builder. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. p. 277
  3. ↑ Reconstruction by daughter Christa-Maria Linden, partly from memory, referred to as Opus 1–93, in: Orgelbaukunst , pp. 498–501, individual presentations pp. 574–588.
  4. ↑ Starogard Gdański, kościół św. Mateusza MusicamSacram (Polish)
  5. ↑ Poznań, kościół Wszystkich Świętych organy.pro (Polish)
  6. ↑ Wejherowo, kościół św. Anny organy.pro
  7. ↑ Bydgoszcz, Bazylika św. Wincentego a Paulo MusicamSacram (Polish)
  8. ^ Freudenberg, Catholic parish church St. Marien organ collection
  9. ↑ Joseph Goebel Danziger Orgeln (German)
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebel, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder and music researcher in Danzig and Leichlingen
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pécs , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1969
Place of death Leichlingen , Rhineland