Joseph Konradt

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Joseph Konradt (* around 1773 in Würzburg (according to his death register, however, in Kissingen ); † September 9, 1838 in Salzburg ) was an organ and piano builder who mainly worked in Salzburg.

Life

Benefit house, apartment and workshop of Joseph Konradt 1814–1838

Joseph Konradt was born in Würzburg around 1773, where, like his brothers, he first trained as a carpenter. Since the widow of the court organ maker, Maria Anna Schmidt (née Würth), could not find a successor for her inherited organ-making trade in Salzburg, she sold the legal name of Johann Evangelist Schmidt in 1813/14 - including the benefit house on Kapuzinerstiege , Imbergstiege 4 - to Joseph Konradt. The first work documented by Konradt in Salzburg is the repair of a damaged Piano Forte in the Kapellhaus in 1817. In 1819 he repaired the organ in Elsbethen , in 1824/25 the four pillar organs and the large organ in Salzburg Cathedral , and in 1822–23 he set the large organ in St. Stephan in Braunau one tone (→ Cornettton ) lower. In 1827 he set up the positive choir of Salzburg Cathedral and the positive of St. Sebastian's Church. His greatest work in Salzburg was apparently the restoration of the large organ in St. Peter's Abbey in 1823, which the simplification hero Abbé Vogler had ruined by his renovation in 1805. In the last years of his life Konradt was only likely to have built more pianos, as Ludwig Mooser had overtaken him as an organ builder. He died childless on September 9, 1838 in his house at Kapuzinerstiege No. 389 of lung addiction and was buried in Sebastian's cemetery. His estate included a fortepiano with an estimated value of 30  florins , a smaller fortepiano of 10 florins and two unfinished fortepiani worth around 20 florins.

literature

  • Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present. Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982.
  • Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organ building and organ music in the 19th century in Salzburg . In: Bourgeois Music Culture in the 19th Century in Salzburg , Symposium Report 1980, edited by Rudolph Angermüller, ed. from the Mozarteum Foundation , Salzburg 1981, pp. 104–111.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Salzburg-St.Andrä, death book (STB5) 1819–1840. See: [1] , image number 02-Tod_0245, accessed on March 26, 2017.
  2. ^ Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Dissertation University of Salzburg 1982, p. 131.
  3. ^ Salzburger Landesarchiv, Königliche Oberbau Commission Salzburg 693e. Quoted from: Walterskirchen: Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Salzburg , p. 131.
  4. ↑ Konrad Meindl: History of the City of Braunau am Inn , II. Theil, Stampfl & Comp., Braunau 1882, p. 132. See: [2] , accessed on March 24, 2017.
  5. ↑ Walterskirchen: Orgeln und Organbauer in Salzburg , p. 131.
  6. ↑ Walterskirchen: Orgeln und Organbauer in Salzburg , p. 131 and 135f.
  7. ↑ ASP , handwriting archive (HSA) 84 pag 96 and 387. Quoted in:. Walter churches organs and organ builder in Salzburg , p.135.
  8. ^ Walterskirchen: Orgeln und Organbauer in Salzburg , S. 132f.
  9. ^ Salzburg-St.Andrä, death book (STB5) 1819–1840. See: [3] , image number 02-Tod_0245, accessed on March 26, 2017.
  10. ↑ Salzburg Regional Archives, Verlässe 1811 to 1850 . Blocking relation 7870. Quoted from: Walterskirchen: Orgeln und Orgelbauer in Salzburg , p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Konradt, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konradt, Josef; Konrad, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian-Salzburg organ and piano builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1838
Place of death Salzburg